I guess the HD-DVD group thought if they chanted the "low price" mantra enough times that it would win them the war. Unfortunately they forgot when they sold all those low price $99 players that bargain hunters aren't willing to pay an average of $25 per disc. They will just buy the $9.99 DVD and upscale it.
High-def is still a premium market, just as DVD was during this timeframe, but now the costs are much more reasonable than they would have been. HD-DVD did do some good in dropping Blu-Ray player prices and giving me and others cheap Blu-Rays because of all the promotions trying to boost sales.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
