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I didn't forget DVD: its' just that BD HW and media will happen to become cheap right when HD TV will become affordable, this will boost appeal for HD contents. Cheap BD-R/RE drives for PCs will help too, just like they helped DVD and modified consumer electronics too, as we know that home production of DIVX DVD+-R and CD-R discs forced producers to make stand-alone players compatible with a data format that in the beginning didn't even exist and after was strongly opposed by the majors, just like mp3. Anyway, BD success is strongly tied to HD success, I understand your objection, but I never denied it. Right now DVD is almost at the zenith of its third capital achievement: first was players' success, second was DVD+-R for PC's success, third is stand-alone recorders success, that is definitively pensioning off VHS for domestic recording. But VHS too became commodity, with prices dropping under $/€100 when DVD became the most successful player, but wasn't yet an affordable recorder. History is repeating. As for me, I have had a DVD-R on my PC for years, but in the living room I still record on VHS and I still haven't any BD device, my next purchase will be a DVD recorder with HDD, next will be a BD-R for the PC, but only when it will be under €80. And right now I'm not planning to buy a PS3, while I think I'll buy a Wii when it will be under €130, just to say that while I prefer Sony to MS, I'm not a fanboy of either.
