"If you don't know who the winner will be, you're gambling whether you buy one or the other--or even if you buy both."
This comment shows a lack of understanding as to why early adopters adopt early. We don't care who wins, we want what we want now. Neither HD-DVD nor Blu-Ray are going away for a long time to come so why hold out until a winner is declared? The movies adopters buy today for their shiny new HD-DVD payers will still work perfectly fine if HD-DVD dries up and blows away in three years.
HD-DVD, at $500-$700, is an insanely inexpensive risk. When I was on a waiting list for Sony's first SACD player, the price was $4500 (and that was when the players were stereo only - not multichannel). HD-DVD looks fantastic and it looks fantastic right now.
“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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"If you don't know who the winner will be, you're gambling whether you buy one or the other--or even if you buy both."
This comment shows a lack of understanding as to why early adopters adopt early. We don't care who wins, we want what we want now. Neither HD-DVD nor Blu-Ray are going away for a long time to come so why hold out until a winner is declared? The movies adopters buy today for their shiny new HD-DVD payers will still work perfectly fine if HD-DVD dries up and blows away in three years.
HD-DVD, at $500-$700, is an insanely inexpensive risk. When I was on a waiting list for Sony's first SACD player, the price was $4500 (and that was when the players were stereo only - not multichannel). HD-DVD looks fantastic and it looks fantastic right now.
Natiahs