whatever on 14 November 2007
| TheBigFatJ said: Here's a really good article about the format war: http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Joshua_Zyber/Commentary:_Living_in_Fear_of_the_Niche/1154 There aren't many strong reasons to care about who wins or whether either format will be alive in five years. A very small percentage of people will know the difference between DVD and high def formats, and most people think DVDs are high def. Just like most people care only about the size of their screen, not the contrast ratio, resolution, or content. Hell, for a lot of people cable produces sufficient quality for television viewing, even though their quality is significantly lower than OTA broadcasts. |
I think a major issue here is that before getting a new HDTV, most people had yet to experience even 480p. So now they get a new HDTV and hook up the old progressive scan DVD player and suddenly they now see 16:9 at 480p and are blown away compared to the old 4:3 at 480i.
Its hard to convince people that just made that jump that they need to make another jump to 1080p when the price is so high.
