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"The increasingly blu ratio means that you can tap into a much bigger market..." - You're assuming a lot...

Posted by Audiophilander on January 18, 2008 at 10:55:59:
... of 'facts' not in evidence. You've assumed that all those folks purchasing inexpensive HD-DVD players will immediately go out and buy a Blu-ray player or PS3 game-machine (for movies) that's more expensive instead of buying up the existing HD titles currently available and then demanding more. The ratio is skewed by the sales of what is in current release, not reflective of popular titles released exclusively to HD or on both formats, but ratio or no ratio, why would Joe Public want to invest in another technology (BD) that apparently still isn't ready for prime time?
No, I suspect that there'll be a lot of frustrated and disappointed customers who'll say "a pox on both your houses" for the two camps failing to resolve these issues amicably long ago. Many will probably go back to buying standard DVDs and upscaling to near HD quality on their new Toshiba players after being hung out to dry by Warner's decision following the holiday fire-sales.
Some of this attitude can be laid at the scratching feet of Chicken Little cheer-leaders and fanatical fan-boys who did their best to inject bias into this volatile situation. While Blu-ray has always been an attractive concept SONY has only been able to remain competitive through guile, by bullying and/or pandering to movie studios while issuing premium priced products incapable of keeping pace with developing HD specifications. IMHO, not only was this a disservice to their prospective customers, but to the development of a healthy market for selling the new HD technologies to the public at large. Ironically, it's SONY and Blu-rays rabid supporters who've done the most to place both of these formats on death watch.
The pompom carriers whined about the potential death of HD formats and ominous threat of internet movie providers looming on the horizon, but by running down one format to the exclusion of other possibilities they've only succeeded in backing their fan-boy vans up to the downloading dock so that bitstream providers can present them with a bill of lading.
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