| Pk9394 said: $1:$2 and $200:$400 both have the same ratio but fall on a different supply and demand graph, and your point of the topic is???? like a few others already stated price will have an inititial effect on consumers, but when it drop to a certain low point it'll no longer be a deciding factor for consumers. This will turn to a competition of which format provide the best contents. |
The formats appear to be a horse a piece right now, except in exclusive content. And if it wasn't for paramount being HD-DVD exclusive, I'd say they were about the same there as well, or perhaps BD would have a slight advantage.
It's hard to quantify which format is technically superior. I'd say HD-DVD, if only for the slight storage advantage (51GB vs 50GB). But that quantity doesn't really matter. What is valuable, however, is the solidity of the specifications. And HD-DVD's specs have been solid for well over a year, whereas BD specs have changed and been incomplete.
I believe that all HD-DVD players currently on the market are capable of reading 51GB triple layer discs, although some may require a firmware update. The updates for all players could be included on the triple layer DVD, of course, and would only require a couple hundred megs of the first layer, making that issue moot.
