Good points. But there is a downside to the name HD DVD too. Some people may get that confused with an upconverting DVD player. A few months ago I actually had an argument with a friend of mine who is usually a relatively informed tech buyer. Apparently the salesman (at Best Buy of course) had somehow put it in his head that his new upconverting DVD player was an HD DVD player. I knew they were not out yet so I told him it was not. I had a battle explaining the difference to him. If he had trouble understanding it, I'd hate to think how difficult it would be for my mom.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Good points. But there is a downside to the name HD DVD too. Some people may get that confused with an upconverting DVD player. A few months ago I actually had an argument with a friend of mine who is usually a relatively informed tech buyer. Apparently the salesman (at Best Buy of course) had somehow put it in his head that his new upconverting DVD player was an HD DVD player. I knew they were not out yet so I told him it was not. I had a battle explaining the difference to him. If he had trouble understanding it, I'd hate to think how difficult it would be for my mom.