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Re: Interesting article on BluRay vs HDDVD in today's sydney morning herald

The SMH article probably needs a little correction on one point. Blu-ray was first to market in Australia, but only because HD DVD which was first to market in the US did not choose to follow through with that advantage here. HD DVD started out with the advantage of being first to market in the US but seem to have lost the advantage that brought them in recent figures for disc sales in the US.

In Australia, Blu-ray managed to get in first, only a month or two after the US release, rather than the 6 month or so delay between HD DVD's kick off in the US and it's arrival here. That probably says something and that something may well be that the HD DVD people aren't interested in markets like ours.

For me what counts is going to be availabilitity of films and Blu-ray seems to have that won. I'm just waiting for some second generation machines with the ability to handle the new, high def audio formats and more reasonable prices.

David Aiken

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