BD loses ground to DVD even with $199 BD players

[Spankey]

heruamon said:
The picture quality edge of brd over DVD is not signifigant enough, with the proliferation of upscaling DVD players, btw...Toshiba, amongst others are working VERY hard at closing hte gap, while squeezing down on the cost to make DVDs...so the cost gap is increasing and the capabilities gap is decreasing...bad news for brd. What's going to be REALLY bad is if Toshiba or others can find a way to squeeze more space onto a DVD.

 

what follows is a short list of companies that are directors in the Blu-Ray consortium. Toshiba will need some major backers if what you say will succeed:

Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment