In the DVD War Over High Definition, Most Are Sitting It Out [NY TIMES]

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KBG29 said:
I assume anyone with a dual format player would only buy Blu-ray because each disc is the same price and the Blu-ray version is of higher quality. I aslo said that that would be the case if as mentioned in the artical all companies backed both formats. Aslo realize that in five years from now Blu-ray discs will have a total capacity of 200GB while HD-DVD discs would still be at 51GB. This would allow for full spec bit rates for audio and video for the main feature, plus all of the extra features all on ones disc. At the current moment HD-DVD can not even get full spec on main features.

Yes my whole post is based on made up figures, and in reality I see HD-DVD being killed off by next summer, but I thought I would look at it from a few steps back, and see how dumb mine, and others predictions really are. One last thing to remember is that stores like well all of them are not going to carry, Cars on DVD, DVD SE, HD-DVD, HD-DVD SE, and Blu-ray. Thier is simpily not enough room in a store to cary that many versions of each movie, or even the top sellers.

 

Very good final point there about retailers.  They are no way going to sell 3 or 4 different formats of the same film as it will take up too much shop space.  Priotiry will go to biggest selling format which is DVD by a huge margin and I do not see that changing for a long while!

 Also don't forget how Sony took over the music format with MD and SACD and killed of VHS with Betamax! NOT! Sony do not have credability when pushing new formats, too many people lost out to these formats despite their clear advantages over the competition.

Your also ignoring the Internet and how its changed the music industry when the industry believed otherwise.  Same thing will happen with films/TV.  You can already download or watch many things on the net and if you are clued up with torrents/file sharing you can watch just about anything in very good even HD quality!!