All I can say is "good" for the shortage. If there's a major shortage, that gives Blu-Ray more time to improve their specs at the expense of HD-DVD. Once the decoder chips improve enough that H.264 becomes viable as "the" standard codec on the platform, its lights-out for HD-DVD. Settling on VC-1 for Blu-Ray is a no-win situation because both platforms would be equal in picture quality and Blu-Ray needs to be "better" at the same-or-near price as HD-DVD.
“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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All I can say is "good" for the shortage. If there's a major shortage, that gives Blu-Ray more time to improve their specs at the expense of HD-DVD. Once the decoder chips improve enough that H.264 becomes viable as "the" standard codec on the platform, its lights-out for HD-DVD. Settling on VC-1 for Blu-Ray is a no-win situation because both platforms would be equal in picture quality and Blu-Ray needs to be "better" at the same-or-near price as HD-DVD.