Time will tell. However, the dual-format devices that were just coming out (and now likely won't, mostly) might have solved this another way. As might have the aborted Warner TotalHD, where you could build a library without risk.
Warner would have done better doing what they did a year earlier or a year later, but their timing -- right after half a million people bought into HD DVD -- kinda sucked.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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Time will tell. However, the dual-format devices that were just coming out (and now likely won't, mostly) might have solved this another way. As might have the aborted Warner TotalHD, where you could build a library without risk.
Warner would have done better doing what they did a year earlier or a year later, but their timing -- right after half a million people bought into HD DVD -- kinda sucked.