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In Reply to: RE: Daewoo is doing a cheap BD player...but honestly, the way to get quickest mass adoption is posted by Jazz Inmate on August 31, 2007 at 09:29:14

I agree a format war is simply going to slow things down. I've picked the side with the greatest studio support and CE support (for now). Too bad Paramount had to muck things up. I also believe Blu-ray's storage capacity and bandwidth advantages are eventually going to weigh in on this war. You won't see POTCesqe picture quality and 24/96 5.1 uncompressed PCM on any HD DVD movie or music video.

A couple of quotes from an article which also discusses Wal-Mart and Venturer players.

�The only time a price can really stimulate demand is if that demand is already there,� said David Workman, director of the Progressive Retailers Organization. �But I�m not sure demand is there. I think the recent Paramount news [about releasing titles in HD DVD exclusively] has polarized software companies even more, so there is further format stalemate. And consumers are still comparing high-def players against the price of [standard-def] players. A $199 player is still an expensive DVD player for people.�

Bjorn Dybdahl, owner of San Antonio store Bjorn�s, added, �Because of the confusion over formats, some people wouldn�t spend $50 on a product that they perceive might not be around for very long.�

Retailers mixed on impact to format war (Open in New Window)

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"You won't see POTCesqe picture quality and 24/96 5.1 uncompressed PCM on any HD DVD movie" - Jack G 04:44:36 09/04/07 (2)
You mean the movie where they messed up the framing and chopped peoples heads off? See link below.

> > > Too bad Paramount had to muck things up. < < <
Yea, so much for the studio support superiority.
enjoy,
Jack
- chopped off heads (Open in New Window)
- Don't blame the format for that screw-up. nt - oscar 07:20:14 09/04/07 (1)
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  - True, but it shouldn't have slipped through QC - Jack G 10:59:07 09/04/07 (0)
    Especially for such a high profile title. The put alot of time and energy into that movie, yet they didn't bother to watch the final product before releasing it(?).
    Jack
Latest Sales Figures For Software - Robertc88 03:33:13 09/01/07 (1)
Forget my resource for this because of all the forums I've been utilizing for info on the hi def formats. HD DVD did not have a title in the top 20 versus BD in the latest report released. I forget if that was over a month or a week timeframe. It may even be the case of which specific movies have been released and where the interest may lay as some folks though have bought into both formats. If folks are indeed spending though on software, then the sales difference is evidence where.

We all know the sales volumes overall are very very low but...
- RE: Latest Sales Figures For Software - Jack G 06:40:08 09/01/07 (0)
  Last weeks sales for software was 68:32 BD:HD DVD. HD DVD had nothing new for the week. Next week will be more interesting. Do try to remember, that there are about five times as many BD players out there.
  As you say, total numbers are low. From inception to the end of July, total numbers were about 2.2M for BD and 1.5M for HD DVD.
  A hot DVD will sell several million its forst day.
  Jack

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