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wbassett wrote:
 My biggest fear in the whole format war thing isn't Sony winning or HD DVD winning, but us losing. If two formats remain and studios are divided, then mass consumer adoption will be slow to happen if at all. |
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MrPorterhouse wrote:
Amen, to that. If either HD DVD or Blu-ray wins quickly, then we(the consumers) won't lose. There has been a great short term benefit of the competition between HD DVD and Blu-ray that has pushed prices down faster than if only 1 format launched, but since that benefit has already happened, it would be of even greater benefit for a single format to emerge quickly so we can see further price breaks with volume efficiencies of manufacturing that single format. Player prices will come down, and media prices will come down due to manufacturing efficiencies of increased production of a single format. We won't lose at all. |
I'm just not sure how you guys come up with this reasoning. How do you know this to be true? I think we are being brain washed into believing this because I just don't see it that way. We are trying to read the minds of millions of consumers and I don't think we can do that. I don't see any confusion and I don't see the fact that there is two formats slowing down the mass consumer adoption. And I definitely do not see prices coming down on players and media just because one format wins. How do we know these things can be factual? Have we polled millions of Americans or is our guessing influenced by what we desire to happen?