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makingmusic476 on 21 November 2007
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Pk9394 said:
makingmusic476 said:
This is the way I look at it. The BDA wants to win this war, as does Warner. If you're going to choose a format, go with Blu-Ray, because it's the only way one format will win.

If you go with HD DVD, you're just giving Toshiba more marketshare, and thus power, enabling them to stay in the game longer and create this dual format world they're looking for, thus forcing you two buy a second player later on, whether it's a Blu-Ray player to compliment your HD DVD player, or a dual-format player to replace it.

how about all studio just drop blu ray support and go to the HD DVD side and save us consumers $200 on the player. I dont really give a crap about 7.1 sound support, I dont have an expensive 7.1 setup to hear the difference. I havent jump on any format yet, but I'm more happy with toshiba's pricing, show its thinking on the consumer side of the budget. While Sony been forcing down their own proprietary expensive shit down our throat the pass decade, remember the mini disc player, keep changing their portable memory module on their next new device??? why cant they just use cheaper SD memory if they care so much about their consumers walleet??.

 

 


Not this argument agan. >_<

A year ago, HD DVD players were $500! That's, like, crazy expensive, right!?! And Blu-Ray players were a whopping $1000!1!

Yet now, HD DVD players are $200, and Blu-Ray players $3-400.

By next year, guess what, Blu-Ray players will be below $200, just like HD DVD! HD DVD's pricing is only an advantage right here, right now. If you think Blu-Ray players will stay this expensive forever, you're freakin' crazy. BR players have already dropped almost $700 this year alone.

And it's not Sony's proprietary format. Panasonic holds more Blu-Ray patents than Sony, and Samsung, Panasonic, Philips, etc. all support Blu-Ray exclusivey, and the competition between these companies will cause player prices to fall just like the competition between HD DVD and Blu-Ray.

Proprietary my ass.