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Agreed--HD Vs. SD

That is and always was the issue. I don't subscribe to the Highlander Syndrome-"There can be only one!". I've been saying all along that the 2 formats will coexist as niche markets. The masses just don't care. I'm not a fan of Micro$oft, though they did develope VC-1. Nor, do I care for Sony, but I do have one of their TVs.
Right now, sales of discs aren't big anough for any studio to change positions-there just isn't enough money involved to make it worth while. The biggest selling title on HD right now is The Departed, where with both formats *together*, just broke the 100,000 mark. Casino Royale on BD sold about 60-70,000. That's peanuts, a whole lot of nothing. Surprisingly, Planet Earth is doing relatively well in sales. There really are customers outside of gamers, imagine that.
Sales of players hasn't really been great either, until very recently, with the sale on HD DVD players. One spokesman said sales went up 5-10 fold(I'm skeptical), but we'll have to see what effect that will have on the software. The PS3 has sold, albeit not as well as expected, but with an attatch rate of about 0.5 movies/unit, it isn't breaking any records either. The BDA's plans of catering to gamers/kiddies for a quick 'win' doesn't seem to be working.
Its still way too early to say much. Time will tell how things go.
Jack
PS. I don't see downloading movies as a real alternative-it takes way too long to download that much info, and most people still don't have broadband.

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