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The format war is not about to make a shift - content is King and with all the major blockbusters coming out exclusively on Blu-ray this Christmas, the market in North America will remain in favour of Blu-ray 2:1 and 4:1 in Europe and Australia and 95:5 in Japan.
J6P ain't buying no $198 player. J6P is not relevant in this format war until 2009.
Hate to tell ya but you are right Content is King but despite the excellent PR campaign with with false and misleading information the truth and facts is that there are more titles released and available for purchase on HD DVD then Blu-ray.
With exclusive releases like Batman, King Kong, Bourne, Transformers, Shrek, Heroe's plus just about all Blu-ray titles can be purchased for an additional $5 as an HD DVD import.
I already own my copy of Mr & Mrs Smith on HD DVD that was promised by Fox 8 months ago and still not released for Blu-ray.
joe 6pk isn't but middle class mike is...I am looking at the 37" vizo there for $760 somthing and waiting for it to drop under $700 or see if a 42" becomes avail under $900. When that happens I will buy the lowest HD player available. If blue ray has a $200 player by then I will buy them...if it is still $200 HD DVD and $400 blue ray...I buy HD DVD. Guess how many other middle class fathers do the same thing.
middle class fathers have more important things to spend money on...like gymnastics class, preschool...lets just say other family exspence. So when the MCF's start buying HD media players..we will care a lot about price...the studios will follow where they can make a profit and HD DVD content will go up.
Plus if you really have to have fantastic four or rambo there is always imports or upconvertiing a regular dvd. The A2's upconvert dvd.