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In Reply to: RE: Dead horses, format wars and consumers... posted by SF tech on January 07, 2008 at 16:54:19
I don't know how any consumer, manufacturer or studio ever convinced themselves that a format with 20 gigs less capacity than a competing format was worth pursuing, but I hope we can put a stop to that idiocy right now.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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But for others, it went beyond that. It engaged their emotions... They wanted one side to win so badly... I wonder where those allegiances come from.
SF
......he just loved being the forum's head cheerleader and got all gushy over the blue pompoms and tunics. ;0)
AuPh
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Rumor has it that someone who believes in truth in advertising snapped this before Jazz Inmate was fully suited up! ;O)
If I had been an early, early adopter in one format and had paid a ton of money on hardware/software, I imagine I'd be pretty passionate about that one (1) format; especially if I thought that format was the technical equal or better than the other format.
I'm a firm believer that one format is technically superior to the other format but plenty of other people are in (sometimes passionate) disagreement.
it also seems Warner's decision was based more on sales than the technical merits of either format. The storage/bandwidth advantages only mattered to the select few who knew about it and cared about it; i.e. a tiny minority of early adopters.
They picked the side they thought would end the war the fastest, so HD could progress, and they could make more money by selling their catalog titles to us again. If sales were reversed, of if they thought they could end the war faster by going HD DVD exclusive, they probably would have. Specs had little to do with it.
Jack
As I've said before, HD DVD did everything wrong here in Australia by doing the exact opposite of what they did right in the US. They released second, they kept player prices high, almost as high as BD, they kept a low profile on demos in stores. Basically they were close to invisible. BD here did the opposite. I wonder in how many other countries the HD DVD group followed their strategy here rather than their strategy in the US.
The film studios would definitely have been considering international sales as well as US sales.
Prior to the Warners announcement, HD DVD hadn't lost the war in the US but they hadn't won it. I think they had lost it here in Australia and I suspect they may have lost it in a number of other countries as well. The US is a big market but they couldn't win the war if they only won that one market.
If things are considered at an international level rather than a US level, I wonder whether what happened was really that HD DVD lost the war rather than Sony winning it. They may well have made the mistake of putting all of their eggs in one basket when there was a second basket that was bigger and they totally blew it there.
David Aiken
Warner brass indicated that a window of opportunity would close if action wasn't taken to get behind ONE format and run with it. Choosing BD had to do with sales but also with the ability to compete with future downloadable HD technologies, where issues like optical capacity are critical. There were many reasons Warner made the choice it did.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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