shams said:
Ahh - but don't make the mistake: None of the titles are exclusive. Everything is coming out on DVD, and DVDs play on both BluRay & HD-DVD players. You aren't restricting choice from consumers - you are just telling them they don't have the option of paying PREMIUM dollars for certain movies. To most consumers - they couldn't care less. ... Its not until studios release EXCLUSIVE HD-DVD or BluRay movies that things get REAL interesting. But of course, they would have to be insane to do that now - as it would cost them 90% of their revenue (approx). Even Sony doesn't have the balls to do this with Spiderman 3 - that would make things interesting. (of course their shareholders would kill them - but maybe an exclusivity period of a month might help?)
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exclusive timed releases for just the HD market would be very interesting! @starcraft, btw the VAST majority of BDs i have(87 total) cost me less than $20 each, so no, as far as new releases goes, dvds are NOT that much cheaper.