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ChiknLitl

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4. December 2006 @ 22:20

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In all likelihood it will be the movie studios that determine the fate of the HDDVD/BR "war". Regardless of what format or player is better, if the titles that the consumers want are only available in one format, then that's the one that will come out ahead. Betamax and VHS were equal in terms of picture and sound quality, although the betamax's short recording length was a drawback. Even then, it held on for almost 10 years, eventually succumbing to lawsuits from Universal studios and others (the suits were never filed against makers of VHS machines). Declining studio support eventually led to its demise. BR does have the advantage of added storage. People will always need more room. Inevitably there will be value priced recorders and larger, practical, EASY to use storage media (who the hell uses ZIP disks?) will always be sought after. Sure, players are $1000.00 but so were DVD players when they first arrived on the scene. Hell the first recorders for PC's were over $1000 and can now be found for less than $40 on sale! Who will come out on top? Too early to say. Knowing Sony's reluctance to cut prices there is a window for HDDVD to sneak in with value priced equipment. Whoever gets ahead must get all the exclusive backing they can from studios.

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DamonDash

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5. December 2006 @ 03:21

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To be honest with you this whole war thing ticks me of because i own a Blu-ray player but there are some movie i want to see but there on HD-DVD or vice verse.Its sucks.

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haynese

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5. December 2006 @ 03:29

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Originally posted by DamonDash:
To be honest with you this whole war thing ticks me of because i own a Blu-ray player but there are some movie i want to see but there on HD-DVD or vice verse.Its sucks.

This is already a huge issue. Since neither the Sony Blu-ray nor the HD-DVD consortium will ever back down (there's simply too much at stake) the only answer to this problem is a player that plays both formats. Supposedly this technology exists, I certainly hope to see a combo player in the future instead of one side losing to the other.

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