Although the idea of having one format is great and I don't care about which side won, I don't understand why other companies didn't do what warners did in terms of double dipping selling both HD-DVD and Blu-ray? Seems that you stand to double your sales, right? Now will I ever be able to find a blu-ray player for under $200 or $100 for that matter?
It was premature to move this way. As much as people claim they have an understanding of the system and how it was overdue to end competition, they are sorely mistaken since competition is the soul of capitalism. We could have had $200 Blu ray players by June and maybe $75 HD players to follow but consumers were impatient in adopting a format and now we will see a slower reduction in price and probably will not get BluRay 1.2 fully adopted until next Holiday season. That means I will have to wait 18 months to get a high end bluray player with full spec. If Apple comes out with some Apple blu ray equipment, I might just cut my loses and think of it as the failure of the industry. We can't have it all. Choose any 2 (Fast, Cheap, and Durable/Quality)
Going 'both ways' ensures higher inventory (and tax) costs, plus the real chance their third world sweatshop laborers will get the wrong format disc in the wrong box - especially if more than one disc is involved (which has already been seen).
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Although the idea of having one format is great and I don't care about which side won, I don't understand why other companies didn't do what warners did in terms of double dipping selling both HD-DVD and Blu-ray? Seems that you stand to double your sales, right? Now will I ever be able to find a blu-ray player for under $200 or $100 for that matter?
It was premature to move this way. As much as people claim they have an understanding of the system and how it was overdue to end competition, they are sorely mistaken since competition is the soul of capitalism. We could have had $200 Blu ray players by June and maybe $75 HD players to follow but consumers were impatient in adopting a format and now we will see a slower reduction in price and probably will not get BluRay 1.2 fully adopted until next Holiday season. That means I will have to wait 18 months to get a high end bluray player with full spec. If Apple comes out with some Apple blu ray equipment, I might just cut my loses and think of it as the failure of the industry. We can't have it all. Choose any 2 (Fast, Cheap, and Durable/Quality)
@Doc:
Going 'both ways' ensures higher inventory (and tax) costs, plus the real chance their third world sweatshop laborers will get the wrong format disc in the wrong box - especially if more than one disc is involved (which has already been seen).