Gballzack said:
Celb said:
Gballzack said:
Celb said:
Gballzack said:
It would be curious to see both formats fail or see HD-DVD win out in North America and Blu-Ray win out everywhere else. |
How will that happen with Blu-ray outselling hddvd 2-1 ? |
If neither reach adequate market saturation and lose momentum they could both easily end up like mini-disc. Just because one is doing better than the other doesn't mean it's garanteed success. And if the public catches wind of the even newer formats looming over the horizon less than ten years from now it will have a pretty deterimental affect on the eagerness of consumers to switch formats at this point in time. As for North America, who knows, I hear HD-DVD players are outselling Blu-Ray players and I see an equal number of the two video libraries represented at any store I go to so its anyone's bet at this point. |
1. Newer formats looming, they all are nearly meaningless. Not a single one has any industry support to affect the eagerness of consumers right now, or even in 5 years. Hollywood wont support some start up format just for the hell of it. You might want to look at the list of Blu-ray supporters, once the format war is over it really is preatty much a guaranteed success. 2. Its not who knows, no one will Support Hd-dvd if its dead in most markets and can only get %30 of USA. Fact is Blu-ray is outselling Hd-dvd just get over it. |
1. The consumer doesn't know that, and that's all that matters. If there's the slightest suspision of another format change (whether true or not) within even a decade it will create disenfranchisement in the consumer base. Further more the lack of penetration by either HD Disc's market and the forced "ceiling" created by the limited penetration of HD TVs in the consumer market (less than 10%) makes them far more vulnerable than any format ever introduced in the past. 2. US market isn't solely dependent on the World market, in fact, when it comes to DVDs its one of the strongest markets. Either way its pretty presumptious to be making such bold claims at this uncertain juncture. |
I'll try and find the article, but I read the other day that 1 in 4 people in the US have at least 1 HD capable TV. Which sounds about right to me as they sell by the thousands on a daily basis.
