Do you remember how much DVD players cost when the format was new? They weren't cheap. The only reason you can get those types of prices now is because Chinese manufacturers infiltrated the market at the low end. They made players cheaper than the name brand companies and thus forced lower prices.
Without this war, I assure you that nobody would be purchasing $100 HD DVD or $300 Blu-ray players. There would not be Blu-ray BOGO's every time a major HD DVD title is released and you would not get a whole basket full of movies with every hardware purchase.
Instead of arguing that the war doesn't bring us lower prices, you should be arguing that we're not actually saving any money because now we have to support two formats. However, I think that's why all new HDTVs have two or more HDMI inputs.
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Do you remember how much DVD players cost when the format was new? They weren't cheap. The only reason you can get those types of prices now is because Chinese manufacturers infiltrated the market at the low end. They made players cheaper than the name brand companies and thus forced lower prices.
Without this war, I assure you that nobody would be purchasing $100 HD DVD or $300 Blu-ray players. There would not be Blu-ray BOGO's every time a major HD DVD title is released and you would not get a whole basket full of movies with every hardware purchase.
Instead of arguing that the war doesn't bring us lower prices, you should be arguing that we're not actually saving any money because now we have to support two formats. However, I think that's why all new HDTVs have two or more HDMI inputs.