What I would like to see from Warner's move, to push blu-ray to mainstream.

[LordTheNightKnight]

Smidlee said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

There is a difference between what Warner's move will mean to HD-DVD and what it will mean to mainstream consumers. Since NPD has shown just 11% of HDTV owners care about HD films, regardless of format, anoyone who says this will push blu-ray to sell much better is kidding themselves.

I want HD to go mainstream, even if it doesn't overtake DVD. I would like to see some films in HD, but so far blu-ray and HD-DVD are just DVD with a few gimmicks.

 

You can say Nintendo controller is nothing but a gimmick yet it sells. If you ask me 6 month ago if I was planning to buy a HDTV or even a PS3 I would clearly have said no, SD TV and PC was good enough for me at that time. Yet in 6 months I now owned 2 HDTV and PS3.

The difference is that the Wiimote is a gimmick with mass appeal. Neither HD format has something like that yet.