This makes perfect sense. have you seen the price of a regular catalog DVD lately. Most of them are UNDER $10. It may actually be cheaper to buy the HD-DVD and a DVD copy, or at least close in price.
This is why SD content will keep long ahead of HD content on any disk. It is sometimes cheaper to buy a DVD then rent it.
Not to mention, while Im sure upscalers do not do as good a job as bd/hddvd, I'm sure for most people, the DVD will offer a much better value- a $80 upscaler plus DVDs that work everywhere and look great compared to a $300 player and (relatively) proprietary discs that won't work in my car setup or my friends/relatives' homes and cost more.
That's the uphill climb HDDVD and bluray have, and I don't think either format will ever sufficiently supplant DVD until DVDs are no longer made.
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This makes perfect sense. have you seen the price of a regular catalog DVD lately.
Most of them are UNDER $10. It may actually be cheaper to buy the HD-DVD and a DVD copy, or at least close in price.
This is why SD content will keep long ahead of HD content on any disk. It is sometimes cheaper to buy a DVD then rent it.
Not to mention, while Im sure upscalers do not do as good a job as bd/hddvd, I'm sure for most people, the DVD will offer a much better value- a $80 upscaler plus DVDs that work everywhere and look great compared to a $300 player and (relatively) proprietary discs that won't work in my car setup or my friends/relatives' homes and cost more.
That's the uphill climb HDDVD and bluray have, and I don't think either format will ever sufficiently supplant DVD until DVDs are no longer made.