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A remaining issue is what is the price point at which mass adoption starts to occur.

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In Reply to: RE: Not that it would happen, but . . . posted by townsend on October 27, 2007 at 17:56:19

$200 might be that point. Of course, $30 movies and a format war might tend to discourage such mass market adoption.

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What About The Display? - Robertc88 05:56:11 10/29/07 (0)
That may be more the issue at this point and their cost. They have come down but I would not what anything other than 50" or above and 1080P before I upgrade mine.

You hit it on the head about the cost of the software but there always is rental being one's chief resource! :)
Precisely my point. I think the $200 player is breaking through - townsend 15:28:23 10/28/07 (2)
an important resistance level to widespread adoption. I remember waiting a long time for DVD players to drop below $300.00. Though the advantages of DVD over VHS are easier to see, I didn't mind paying 250.00 for my first DVD player. DVD was widely adopted long before players dropped to 100.00. Just my opinion.

So we are already there with HD DVD players. Never mind it isn't the latest and greatest HD DVD player; the masses don't care.

So what is holding up the show? The 30.00 disc problem and the format war. The format war is beyond any one parties control, but why doesn't HD DVD pass on the savings from a less expensive manufacturing process in the form of cheaper HD DVDs?

That would distinguish HD DVD from blu-ray, and also narrow the price gap between DVD and HD DVD. Right now, to the average consumer, both blu-ray and HD DVD software is prohibitively expensive.
- RE: Precisely my point. I think the $200 player is breaking through - 4season 23:06:29 10/28/07 (1)
  "So what is holding up the show?"
  
  I always was kind of choosy about what movies I buy for my personal collection: It's got to be something that I want to watch more than one or two times. And frankly, a lot of the titles put out on HD DVD and Blu-Ray (especially) just make me go "huh?". Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't want to buy a crap movie just because the audio and video are reference-quality--that's the sort of silliness that drove me out of 2-channel audio.
  - RE: Precisely my point. I think the $200 player is breaking through - racerguy 05:58:26 10/29/07 (0)
    > > Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't want to buy a crap movie just because the audio and video are reference-quality < <
    
    So are you saying you don't want to re-buy The Fifth Element for the fourth time just so you can ooh and ahh over the increased detail in the desert scenes?
    
    An unbeliever! Smite him! ;-)

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