@EQC yeah, thats all well and good in the normal retail world, but the BDA is a cartel that works together to price fix.If you cant see that then you are just not looking. The plan was for PS3 to fu*k HD DVD which it has just done and the blu cartel will maintain price fixing, and mark my words, we will be stuck with high pricing for a very long time.
IMO BR will now NEVER become main stream, sony and the cartel will hold that pricing high for a few years and BR will become niche market. This WILL NOT create main stream adoption and DVD will remain the dominant force until downloading or some other format comes along. Everyone is saying we need one format, i say bullshit. Competition is what HD needs and mainstream adoption has been poor because of DVD, not HD DVD. DVD upscaled onto a plasma or LCD is brilliant, and the best way forward IMO opinion is with cheap hardware and lots of competition so Joe Schmo will change from DVD. Why would he now, $500+ for a DVD player, no thanks, the one i have now is fine. You are delusional if you think the blu cartel will now start competing with each other, FOFLMFAO, they didn't do it before, they have much less reason too now. This is a tragic day for the consumer.
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@EQC
yeah, thats all well and good in the normal retail world, but the BDA is a cartel that works together to price fix.If you cant see that then you are just not looking.
The plan was for PS3 to fu*k HD DVD which it has just done and the blu cartel will maintain price fixing, and mark my words, we will be stuck with high pricing for a very long time.
IMO BR will now NEVER become main stream, sony and the cartel will hold that pricing high for a few years and BR will become niche market.
This WILL NOT create main stream adoption and DVD will remain the dominant force until downloading or some other format comes along.
Everyone is saying we need one format, i say bullshit. Competition is what HD needs and mainstream adoption has been poor because of DVD, not HD DVD. DVD upscaled onto a plasma or LCD is brilliant, and the best way forward IMO opinion is with cheap hardware and lots of competition so Joe Schmo will change from DVD. Why would he now, $500+ for a DVD player, no thanks, the one i have now is fine.
You are delusional if you think the blu cartel will now start competing with each other, FOFLMFAO, they didn't do it before, they have much less reason too now.
This is a tragic day for the consumer.