looking at the global scale, there are some problems ahead for hd-dvd. the europle and aus launch of the PS3 console is just a few weeks away. as far as the next generation dvd sale totals that i have seen through last year, and this year...well, it would be hard to say that they've been buying titles or hardware left and right. even if only 10% of the EU and AUS markets buy blu ray dvds who have PS3, and there are only 1,000,000 million sold between the two, thats going to be far more than how many next gen players were sold in the last half year. Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but last i checked in EU (might have been just england) there had been less than 10,000 combined sales between both formats. what you said is also very true, the hd-a2 and hd-ax2 are very good upconversion players. the only problem w/ this particular fact is, the avg "next gen" dvd shopper isn't going to be taking this into consideration. its going to be mainly price, brand loyalty, and the available titles in each respective format. more advanced electronics users will probably know about this. But hypothetically, if the format wasn't doing too well, why would anyone want to shell out $500 for an upconversion player, which also happens to support a hardly sold/used next gen format. I think people might be willing to sacrifice unconversion quality (hypothetically if it were worse)and purchase a 2nd gen sony, pioneer, panasonic player that played a more popular next gen hd format. the only thing i can say is, the global picture as far as hd-dvd vs blu ray will be really be taking shape come june, july, august...
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looking at the global scale, there are some problems ahead for hd-dvd. the europle and aus launch of the PS3 console is just a few weeks away. as far as the next generation dvd sale totals that i have seen through last year, and this year...well, it would be hard to say that they've been buying titles or hardware left and right. even if only 10% of the EU and AUS markets buy blu ray dvds who have PS3, and there are only 1,000,000 million sold between the two, thats going to be far more than how many next gen players were sold in the last half year. Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but last i checked in EU (might have been just england) there had been less than 10,000 combined sales between both formats.
what you said is also very true, the hd-a2 and hd-ax2 are very good upconversion players. the only problem w/ this particular fact is, the avg "next gen" dvd shopper isn't going to be taking this into consideration. its going to be mainly price, brand loyalty, and the available titles in each respective format. more advanced electronics users will probably know about this. But hypothetically, if the format wasn't doing too well, why would anyone want to shell out $500 for an upconversion player, which also happens to support a hardly sold/used next gen format. I think people might be willing to sacrifice unconversion quality (hypothetically if it were worse)and purchase a 2nd gen sony, pioneer, panasonic player that played a more popular next gen hd format.
the only thing i can say is, the global picture as far as hd-dvd vs blu ray will be really be taking shape come june, july, august...