Posted by Mark W on 01/11/08 06:20

"Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Almost forever companies have been preaching that if they could reduce
> piracy then they could reduce their prices. These new high definition
> formats are supposed to have much better copy protection so I have to
> ask, why are they not cheaper than regular DVDs? If thay want to get
> back into the format battle they could produce the DVD/HDDVD combo
> discs and sell them at the same price that DVDs are selling now.
>
> Al

At present they'll be 'recouping the R&D costs'.
They'll be doing that whilst waiting for someone to figure out how to bypass
the copy protection.
Then it'll be back to 'if only we could reduce piracy....'

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