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RE: Agreed--HD Vs. SD

Of course, this isn't the first time Sony has tried to jump start a format by targeting the wrong customers.

Hoping that PS3 game consoles will help Bluray is roughly equivalent to the hopes in 2001-2003 that sales of Sony DVD players with SA-CD capability would help SA-CD. It didn't happen before, it won't happen now. Gamers buy PS3s to play games, not to watch movies just as the Sony DVD/SA-CD players were bought to watch DVD movies, not to listen to high resolution audio. A small minority of PS3 owners will be tempted to try Bluray - once. They'll buy one or two movies and lose interest because their gaming setups in most cases won't be optimized to show them the advantage of the high resolution theater experience. They won't see the benefit of paying $25 for a Bluray movie they can get for $10 on DVD.

I feel that both formats will coexist for a few years. Projecting at 106", I can certainly appreciate the benefit of high definition video. And most of the high definition programming I get on DirecTV is so compressed that it's unwatchable except for nature and travel programing where the images are fairly static. So I figured there's no sense waiting now that the HD players have become affordable and the first-generation bugs have been (to a reasonable extent) resolved to my satisfaction.


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