Was Blu Ray a mistake?

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robjoh said:

 

Actuly I think the HD format is in war against the standard DVD if the transition takes to long time, or no clear winner is coming. If the price for making HD-movies is so high that it won't be financiel sense to make them because of poor sales. The transition might end. Of course I do belive that one of the format will take over, and that for the moment BR has the biggest chanse, I also belive that many of us will wait untill we have a clear winner and when we can start renting HD-movies.

 

Ahh, but what your not getting is that this war is already making the Next gen formats cheaper. The upside for hd-dvd was supposed to be the factory refitting was cheaper while the media was more expensive. The costly part for blu ray was the factories while the media was less expensive. That transistion is over with. I give it a few months and pressing dual layered blu ray and triple layerd hd-dvd's will be in direct competition with the cost of making a dvd.

 

You pretty much wont hear any companies complaining about the cost of manufacturing these formats after they have both been in full swing after a year and a half.