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

Posted by oscar on October 18, 2007 at 10:23:35:
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.