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Sonnie wrote:
 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? |
Well first I will say it is my opinion and I don't know it to be 'true'.
I don't think anyone does for that matter.
There definitely is a split that a lot of general consumers don't like or even understand. I've heard so many confused people in the stores it's not even funny, so in that sense, yes two formats other than SDVD is very confusing to a lot of people (not necessarily everyone) and makes it harder for them to adopt either format.
I agree that it took two format's competing to bring prices down, no disagreement from me there whatsoever! My personal opinion is now that prices are coming down, the best thing would be either one format or all movies available on both formats. If they are available on both, then the consumers will either accept it and buy the format they favor and both coexist together, or if consumers unanimously go with one format over the other, then they decided and not the studios or companies. Unfortunately, that's a perfect world scenario and we all know that's not going to happen.
Sonnie sorry if my opinions came across as speculating and ended up misleading anyone... wasn't my intentions, just saying what my concern was. For right now I am still buying both formats depending on the price and title.