I cannot understand why people who pay $2000+ for their full HD Plasma or LCD expect to pay less thn $100 for a HD Disc playback machine? Remember what DVD players cost for the first few years and CD players before them? $99 HD DVD players only happened because Toshiba dumped their old 1080i only models, just to gain a foothold. It happened only in the US. The rest of the world still had to pay premium prices for those old models. Early adopters have to pay some of the developement costs and nobody, not even Toshiba can circumvent this. Now we have a chance to standardize on a format and the big manufacturers can compete against each other not against rival formats. Let's not draw out this stupid war any longer or maybe there will never be a HD disc market? I was format neutral, but please let HD DVD rest in peace and just let the customer whatever movie he or she chooses and watch the damn thing!
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I cannot understand why people who pay $2000+ for their full HD Plasma or LCD expect to pay less thn $100 for a HD Disc playback machine? Remember what DVD players cost for the first few years and CD players before them? $99 HD DVD players only happened because Toshiba dumped their old 1080i only models, just to gain a foothold. It happened only in the US. The rest of the world still had to pay premium prices for those old models. Early adopters have to pay some of the developement costs and nobody, not even Toshiba can circumvent this. Now we have a chance to standardize on a format and the big manufacturers can compete against each other not against rival formats. Let's not draw out this stupid war any longer or maybe there will never be a HD disc market? I was format neutral, but please let HD DVD rest in peace and just let the customer whatever movie he or she chooses and watch the damn thing!