| Chadius said: "unless you buy into both formats you're always going to be missing out on movies. As long as there's a split in the studios everyone who buys into an HD format and doesn't have both will be screwed." Agreed. I can't "futureproof" my HDTV because I might pick the wrong player. Until the format is unified Customers Lose. |
Or until the studios stop participating in the format war and release content on both formats. Given that the two formats are running at a consistant 60/40 split, this may eventually happen as content providers get sick of missing out on about half the userbase.
Even then, you'll probably find some smaller releases can't be bothered to release on both formats.
Also, the user would continue to be inconvenienced by needing to be absolutely sure that they're buying their content in the correct format for their player. Don't impulse buy that movie, it's Blu-Ray and your player at home is HD-DVD.
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