Anyone know the logic behind this three-week delay? I understand they are being nice giving people a four-month notice on this, but why bother w/ the three-week delay? I guess I don't see the point. You've already killed the HD-DVD format w/ the announcement, so that can't be it.
I would assume that it's because they've already produced the HD DVDs, so they want to try to sell off the stock of them before they go Blu Ray exclusive. That's the only reason I can see considering I don't think they had any kind of contract to support HD DVD.
Sorry I definately misread the question and was answering as to why keep supporting for four months. As to the three week delay, I would assume that Warner did take some kind of profit from switching. It's the business world and to think otherwise would be naiive. So I'm guessing that Sony wanted some kind of advantage over HD DVD during the 4 month dual support period and it was worked into the deal to give blu ray the edge in their support. But what I don't understand is, if Warner really wanted to end the format war like they said because it is better for the consumer, why wait the four months. If they really want to standardize for the customer's sake, they shouldn't sell a product that they are attempting to make obsolete to the uninformed person who doesn't know about what's happening in the format war.
I was considering the possibility that they wanted to support both but didn't want to take the support calls for all three formats at the same time. After a few weeks the support calls for Blu-Ray might die down and they can focus on the calls for the HD-DVD side. I don't believe they have already made the HD-DVD movies five months out as nobody wants to hold inventory, especially something you can't even ship and recognize revenue on.
Other than that, maybe this is an effort to see just how many dedicated HD-DVD owners there are out there. Anyone who is BD exclusive or purple even will surely purchase the Blu-Ray while anyone who buys the HD-DVD version is surely an HD-DVD "exclusive" consumer and aims to remain that way.
That said, I'll wait a few weeks to pick up my HD-DVD copies. If I've waited months for a movie to be released on disk I can wait a few extra weeks to get it in the format I want. I mean, I wait for the DVD rather than just download it today so why not wait until it's available in HD-DVD rather than buy it in DVD?
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Anyone know the logic behind this three-week delay? I understand they are being nice giving people a four-month notice on this, but why bother w/ the three-week delay? I guess I don't see the point. You've already killed the HD-DVD format w/ the announcement, so that can't be it.
Anyone wise enough to weigh in?
I would assume that it's because they've already produced the HD DVDs, so they want to try to sell off the stock of them before they go Blu Ray exclusive. That's the only reason I can see considering I don't think they had any kind of contract to support HD DVD.
Sorry I definately misread the question and was answering as to why keep supporting for four months. As to the three week delay, I would assume that Warner did take some kind of profit from switching. It's the business world and to think otherwise would be naiive. So I'm guessing that Sony wanted some kind of advantage over HD DVD during the 4 month dual support period and it was worked into the deal to give blu ray the edge in their support. But what I don't understand is, if Warner really wanted to end the format war like they said because it is better for the consumer, why wait the four months. If they really want to standardize for the customer's sake, they shouldn't sell a product that they are attempting to make obsolete to the uninformed person who doesn't know about what's happening in the format war.
I was considering the possibility that they wanted to support both but didn't want to take the support calls for all three formats at the same time. After a few weeks the support calls for Blu-Ray might die down and they can focus on the calls for the HD-DVD side. I don't believe they have already made the HD-DVD movies five months out as nobody wants to hold inventory, especially something you can't even ship and recognize revenue on.
Other than that, maybe this is an effort to see just how many dedicated HD-DVD owners there are out there. Anyone who is BD exclusive or purple even will surely purchase the Blu-Ray while anyone who buys the HD-DVD version is surely an HD-DVD "exclusive" consumer and aims to remain that way.
That said, I'll wait a few weeks to pick up my HD-DVD copies. If I've waited months for a movie to be released on disk I can wait a few extra weeks to get it in the format I want. I mean, I wait for the DVD rather than just download it today so why not wait until it's available in HD-DVD rather than buy it in DVD?