Home Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

Mass market acceptance is not going to happen this Holiday season.

And may never happen if disc prices continue to hover around $30 (this week not withstanding). Current Blu-ray players will continue to play Blu-ray disks (with the exception of the occasional fixable firmware glitch) and that's all you need to play the movie. At the moment Blu-ray is a niche and so is HD DVD; I don't expect that to change anytime soon.

Maybe after Blu-ray has gotten it's act together:
put reasonably priced 1.1/2.0 profile players on the market (I don't even know/care what the profiles mean), drop Blu-ray movie prices close to DVD prices, and make HD DVD disappear is there a chance of mass market acceptance. This won't happen anytime soon, maybe in the for the next holiday season.



Edits: 10/18/07

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