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In Reply to: RE: Another blink. posted by Audiophilander on November 09, 2007 at 11:14:49
The format war has been very good to the consumer. I wished there were more dual players, but I'm not convinced they'll be all that popular, or cheap.
I'm still not convinced the masses will care enough about HD, even after the change over in 2009. They'll see upconverted SD and think that its good enough.
Jack
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.... most people aren't buying the "big" HD-TV's wherein the differences are more readily seen.
John Crossett___
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
Hardware prices and the price of the discs themselves are definitely an issue. Fortunately, backwards compatibility isn't a factor with the players, but as Harmonia lamented in the thread below the lack of flexibility to play discs from other regions (regardless of how those regions are broken down and coded) is just one more factor to take into consideration. Also, as you accurately pointed out, up-converted standard definition isn't bad; it may be good enough for the average consumer.
AuPh
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This is one of those issues that can, especially in the short term, turn into a major speed-bump in the push to promote acceptance of high definition formats, IMO. The problem is in understanding the audience. Early adopters aren't merely techno-geeks hungry to possess the latest whiz-bang toy, they're also film enthusiasts who are mavericks when it comes to accepting unnecessarily imposed restrictions that limit their entertainment choices.Studio paranoia over piracy combined with a desire to micromanage world-wide video distribution have long been a stumbling block to the adoption of new technologies; lets hope that sanity prevails so that either or both HD formats can gain a solid market foothold in the window of opportunity provided.
AuPh
The whole reason some studios support BD, is specifically those issues you mention-piracy protection and region coding. We can only hope that these paranoid fits will be more trouble than they are worth, but I suspect that won't be the case.
Jack
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