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misterd said:
Strategyking92 said:
Is the market ready for a format change in the state it's in now though?

Because the format is backwards compatable, it won't be nearly the shock the system that CDs and DVDs are.

No one should be too shocked by these processes. Everyone was expecting sub-$300 new players this season, and the sub-$200 are Black Friday or clearance specials - I bet none of them will be the new 2.0 config, and their owners will be sorely disappointed to find many discs incompatable with their players. But next year will surely bring NEW players prices below $200, which keeps it on the same pace (at least) as DVD.

 

The movie will still play so that won't be a problem for a vast majority of people who don't care about the special features.  Web-enabled features are still in a very very small minority of discs and they continue to be buggy at best.  I would even be curious to see how many people are actually attempting to access them.  It can't be a huge selling point for some studios (ie: Fox/MGM) who are still cranking out bare bone catalog releases at new release prices....



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