| redisrad said: but lets say the dual player become the standard. well that means both sides of the formate war will have to buy a new player to play all the movies. also they will cost more then both hd player standalones. also there would be less shelf space because both formates would have to share. so it would just make more since to go blu because bluray has like 10 time more players out there. and would make more since to make the 10% of hd dvd owner mad, 90% of bluray owners mad or 100% of them mad because dual is the standard. |
It's the prospect of rebuying media that sucks. DVD players I've had a bunch, but I've never repurchased a single DVD, of which I own many dozens. I may rebuy less than a handful of those in HD (those where I really do give a damn about picture quality), and I'm holding on buying exactly one DVD, cause I'd like to have it in HD.
I don't like to repurchase stuff I (supposedly) own, so I've come to appreciate the tradition brought forth by 12 cm disc media, where support for new formats has always been added to players, and never dropped. To me, and most people I know at least, backwards compatibility is even more important in music and movies than in games. Apart from gifts, I only buy stuff for its replay value: otherwise I'll just rent. Playing this stuff down the road is essencial, otherwise video-on-demand rentals would do just fine.
