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That's fine, the early adopters can pay that premium price.

Posted by oscar on August 21, 2007 at 08:28:57:
The upsampling DVD and the HD formats may not look that different to J6P with the 25" screen. It might not make sense for them to spend $300/box or $25 per disc on the HD formats. But the heavy spenders for 40"+ 1080p displays are far more likely to spend that kind of money for HD hardware/software. But the HD content creators need to make it worth my while by delivering tbe best possible PQ and AQ that the HD formats can deliver. I won't spend premium money (particularly the doubledip variety) on releases which are little better than their DVD counterparts.

I'm also loath to spend money on more than one (1) HD source player, though Paramount's decision makes it more likely I'll eventually wind up doing this. It also makes it more likely the high end source player manufacturers will continue to sit out the HD format wars.