| shams said: Guys - for a small manufacturing run, a 30c saving per disk is HEAPS! Almost 20%... And HD-DVD players are much cheaper - not so much the discs. Makes it easier for consumers to upgrade as part of an impulse purchase. The other factor that I thought was significant... HD-DVD owners have a higher attach rate (buy more movies per owner). This is probably only due to PS3 sales though - a lot of people buy a PS3 and never use the BluRay player. |
Unfortunately for HD-DVD, almost no other manufacturer will build a player because Toshiba undercuts them on price with the $299 A2. That is why almost every major hardware manufacturer, including some of the cheap Chinese ones, are onboard with Blu-Ray players, not HD-DVD.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
