Everyone is so quick to say hell yeah, the war is over... Why is everyone so happy? The simple fact that HD-DVD continued to put price pressure blu-ray and Microsoft continued to put pressure on Sony's console (with blu-ray in it), we have seen some of the fastest price drops in the history of next-gen electronics. Were it not for the "war", prices would not be where they are today. Simple as that... Further, the price of blu-ray movies have come down from $30-35 to be somewhat price competitive with regular DVDs. Again, you can thank competition and all the subsidizing going on behind the scenes to fund the buy 1 get 1 free and so on type of deals. HD-DVDs "interactive" features that were in existence from day one certainly have put pressure on blu-ray to get to a final spec as well.
In the end, someone will win... And it seems blu-ray is on the way... Along the way, however, they have bled enormous amounts of cash subsidizing the format and benefitted customers every step of the way. There is nothing but benefit for the customer. Period.
I was hoping the war would remain 50/50 for another year until the players were sub $99 and movies were more or less par with standard DVD. Until then, I'm just going to upscale...
I hate trolls.
Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
