People keep going on and on about one format being better and bla bla but I totally disagree. If from the outset there had been just Blu Ray then uptake till now would have been even less. Stand alone players would have cost over $500. Much less people would have bought stand alone players than they would have now. The only affordable player would have been a games console. In fact there is the possibility there would have been no affordable high def player because I am convinced the only reason Sony included blu ray in PS3 was to ensure victory over Blu Ray. Without a competing format there would have been no need for this. And movies would have been more expensive.
The format war has caused prices to fall so quickly that many more people have been able to jump in at an early stage than would have been the case if there had been a single format.
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