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

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In Reply to: RE: format wars: I predict posted by DavidLD on August 21, 2007 at 06:40:30

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.

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same for every new format - Jazz Inmate 10:49:31 08/21/07 (2)
We go through this discussion every time a new technology reaches the market with competing formats.

There is nothing specific to Blu-ray or HD DVD that is innately more expensive than DVD and nothing about either format that makes it more expensive than the other in the long run. It's as Oscar said: early adopters pay a premium. Prices have come down really fast.
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- RE: same for every new format - Bubba 21:45:11 08/21/07 (1)
  Well, it is new technology. Blue lasers cost more than red ones. The discs are higher density and presumably there's a learning curve to producing them reliably. There's a heck of a lot more figgerin' required to turn H264 into a picture than there was with MPEG2, so the player needs to be smarter.
  
  It isn't really expensive now. Remember laserdiscs? After being on the market for over 15 years, the players still cost around $500, and discs were over $30.
  
  DVD has accustomed us to dirt cheap players and media. You can buy a functional player for about the same price as a new release movie. I don't think that can be said for any other format, ever, except possibly for kazoos and sheet music.
  - I think Blu-ray is super cheap - Jazz Inmate 21:58:41 08/21/07 (0)
    I spent $19.99 on even the cheap DVDs when I adopted. And $24.99 on SACDs.
    
    Blu-ray is a steal.
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