In all honesty, I think that the hybrid player will become the defacto standard. First of all, it's not going to be that hard to make them, I think. Maybe in the first six months to a year before miniaturization really kicks in, but then otherwise, it should be a snap. I mean, any consumer player, whethter HD-DVD or Blu-Ray will be backwards compatible with DVDs, CDs, probably VCDs, MP3 cds, JPEG cds, all recordable flavors of the above, and possibly DivX as well. What's one more format? Especially one that is, in all honesty, not really that different from the other.
I think the consumer would rather have a player that works regardless of who wins, which makes me think the hybrid players will do will, even if it's not the most mainstream of mainstream companies manufacturing them. And as soon as the big guys see the little guys cannibalizing their products, anyone without a real reason to care (meaning everyone except Sony and Toshiba) will go hybrid. Then it's hybrids all around.
LG has done the math, and they know the right horse is agnosticism.
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In all honesty, I think that the hybrid player will become the defacto standard. First of all, it's not going to be that hard to make them, I think. Maybe in the first six months to a year before miniaturization really kicks in, but then otherwise, it should be a snap. I mean, any consumer player, whethter HD-DVD or Blu-Ray will be backwards compatible with DVDs, CDs, probably VCDs, MP3 cds, JPEG cds, all recordable flavors of the above, and possibly DivX as well. What's one more format? Especially one that is, in all honesty, not really that different from the other.
I think the consumer would rather have a player that works regardless of who wins, which makes me think the hybrid players will do will, even if it's not the most mainstream of mainstream companies manufacturing them. And as soon as the big guys see the little guys cannibalizing their products, anyone without a real reason to care (meaning everyone except Sony and Toshiba) will go hybrid. Then it's hybrids all around.
LG has done the math, and they know the right horse is agnosticism.