| KBG29 said: I can't believe some people are still trying to justify HD-DVD. Blu-ray is a better format on every front. Sharp and Sony will both have Players out this winter for 299.99. The PS3 will be at 399.99 and it is the best player on the market. Movies like Transformers have already been limited by the space on HD-DVD. It makes absolutly no sense whatsoever to purchase a format that is already limited. It is not like this is a car or something. People don't have to have this right this second. If it is to expensive for you wait for the price to be in your range. I would like to see a format get in thier and run for a little while. With Blu-ray we have this opertunity to get a product today that will continue to grow over the next 3 to 5 years and last as long as 10 to 15. If we go DVD>HD-DVD>HD-DVD+>HD3D-DVD every seven years it is like get up, trip, and fall, get up, trip, and fall. Maybe I am crazy. Maybe people don't like longgevity. It just sounds stupied to me to keep getting the same product just better every few years. |
Yeah, it especially bugged me a year ago when the war first began. Many early adopters chose HD DVD because it was cheaper. Early adopters don't (or at least shouldn't) care about price. That's why they're early adopters. They only care about getting the latest tech, regardless of the initial price point. So these guys think $1000 for a media player is too much but $600 is just fine? It made no sense to me. Sure, HD DVD had a good chance of winning because of the lower price, but had no early adopters adopted it, instead going for the technically superior format, it would've been DOA, and would've never had a chance of winning to begin with.
I'm going to be pretty mad if we get stuck with a lesser format simply because a bunch of early adopters were scared of betting on the wrong horse. And if price was really an issue for them, then WHY ARE YOU AN EARLY ADOPTER!?! I mean, just wait a couple of f'in months or a year like everyone else. Don't be impatient, going with only what you can afford, thereby screwing over the rest of us. Honestly, eventually all players would've gotten down the sub-$99 mark anyway, so price shouldn't have been an issue at all. Hence, why they are early adopters.
