pearljammer on 06 January 2008
| Scruff7 said: there is some major confusion in here... the competition doesn't end because the format war has ended, it's only just begun. don't confuse the HD DVD Forum and BDA as companies, they are groups of companies backing certain formats, they are alliances formed in order to push a particular format type. however, once te format war ends, all these allied company groups will turn on each other, Samsung will go into direct competition with Sony to sell more standalone systems, and so on. toshiba will eventually switch is considerable production muscle to Blu-ray manufacturing and suddenly we have ourselves a new war - which company will sell the most Blu-Ray players? The format war has just delayed the onset of the adoption of a new high-definition movie era, causing confusion and fear - people do not want to spend money on a system that will be useless if the format fails. and this not only effects BD and HDDVD, it affects DVD too. for the first time since its inception DVD has seen a year on year drop in revenue. the DVD market is slowing down because people are waiting to hed a hi-def player once a winner is seen, people are worried about buying into a redundant format. why buy something today, that will be yesterdays technology tomorrow? this is why it is in the interest of the consumer and the home electronic industry to adopt a single system sooner rather than later. |
Well said.
