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But you have to wonder... will those in the target audience who purchase a PS3, also purchase Blu-Ray movies? Also, will those who purchase PS3, have an HD TV?

I think sales of both HD DVD and Blu-Ray will be slow no matter what for the foreseeable future. We're still in the early adopter phase.]]>Oct 7th 2006 7:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/Oct 7th 2006 7:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/
And anyone who buys a PS3 and has an HD TV (which are becoming more common these days) will certainly buy BD movies, at least in my opinion. Why not? How could anyone settle for less when they've got a perfectly operational BD player at their disposal.]]>Oct 8th 2006 1:00AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/
Add in regional encoding used to lock out getting cheaper blu-ray content from other countries and Europe not getting the PS3 till next year and I'd give HD DVD the lead in at least Europe.

I'm curious if anyone has yet seen a blu-ray movie playing on teh PS3, Seeing as its only a month away from release. If not is that because Sony doesn't want to show it or because people are just not interested in the PS3's Blu-Ray playback.
]]>Oct 8th 2006 4:32AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/Oct 8th 2006 6:30AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/That is a good point, but I think it is important to note that the worst HD DVD or Blu-ray still looks better than the best DVD, even if only marginally better. Since most DVDs don't look that good the difference is even more drastic. Of course most people won't care about the difference until the players cost the same price, but until then those who care can enjoy the better formats.]]>Oct 8th 2006 10:06AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/07/more-blu-ray-titles-and-region-coding/
However I think people dont appreciate the extra cost of the discs, We all know how little they cost to manufacture (especially compared to the hardware on which some/most electronics are taking a loss).

If a Blu-Ray or HD DVD disc costs even three times as much as a normal DVD to produce then why doesnt it just add $1-$2 to the price. It just feels to the average consumer that its CD vs Tapes all over again, a reason for the movie/music companies to rape us on cost.

All other technology costs tend to go down as time goes on (i'm typing this on a US $300 computer thats ten times as powerful as a US$3000 computer was 10 years ago). Whilst High Def DVD's whic are mastered from the same film source as normal DVD's are 2x the price.]]>Oct 8th 2006 1:18PM