Considering that most movie studios support Blu-Ray and not HD-DVD, MOST people are not going to buy HD-DVD players simply on the price because the content is not going to be there.
In the short term, I am sure HD-DVD will do fine. But in the long term as more and more exclusive blockbuster titles come out for Blu-Ray, smart consumers will compare the content and notice that HD-DVD will be lacking the best titles.
and ultimately content, and not the price of the player(HD-DVD or Blu-Ray) is what is going to determine who wins this war.
"Considering that most movie studios support Blu-Ray and not HD-DVD, MOST people are not going to buy HD-DVD players simply on the price because the content is not going to be there."
That'd be all well and good if it were true, but it's not even CLOSE to being true. While it's true that BD has Sony, Disney and Fox (although Fox hasn't released anything in a long time....), HD DVD has a lot of studios:
Universal Weinstein First Look Studios Warner Brothers Paramount Dreamworks HBO Discovery Magnolia (there's a few more smaller ones as well)
Granted that they aren't all exclusive, but the non-exclusive studios are making more money releasing on both (Warner Brothers has stated this publicly) so at that point the price of the player DOES become a huge factor since a large number of movies are available on both platforms.
Not to say that BD won't "win," but it's really not cut and dry in the least.
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Considering that most movie studios support Blu-Ray and not HD-DVD, MOST people are not going to buy HD-DVD players simply on the price because the content is not going to be there.
In the short term, I am sure HD-DVD will do fine. But in the long term as more and more exclusive blockbuster titles come out for Blu-Ray, smart consumers will compare the content and notice that HD-DVD will be lacking the best titles.
and ultimately content, and not the price of the player(HD-DVD or Blu-Ray) is what is going to determine who wins this war.
"Considering that most movie studios support Blu-Ray and not HD-DVD, MOST people are not going to buy HD-DVD players simply on the price because the content is not going to be there."
That'd be all well and good if it were true, but it's not even CLOSE to being true. While it's true that BD has Sony, Disney and Fox (although Fox hasn't released anything in a long time....), HD DVD has a lot of studios:
Universal
Weinstein
First Look Studios
Warner Brothers
Paramount
Dreamworks
HBO
Discovery
Magnolia
(there's a few more smaller ones as well)
Granted that they aren't all exclusive, but the non-exclusive studios are making more money releasing on both (Warner Brothers has stated this publicly) so at that point the price of the player DOES become a huge factor since a large number of movies are available on both platforms.
Not to say that BD won't "win," but it's really not cut and dry in the least.