This is another step in the right direction. Obviously the Blu-Ray player market is profitable for other manufacturers to create low cost units and still be competitive. As we look back on the failure of HD-DVD, it will be clear that Toshiba basically created a one man party, and left the others out to dry. In order to retain any sort of competition with Blu-Ray, Toshiba priced any other manufacturers out of the market.
This is a good sign for mass market HDM adoption, and it is about time that we can begin to concentrate on a unified market.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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This is another step in the right direction. Obviously the Blu-Ray player market is profitable for other manufacturers to create low cost units and still be competitive. As we look back on the failure of HD-DVD, it will be clear that Toshiba basically created a one man party, and left the others out to dry. In order to retain any sort of competition with Blu-Ray, Toshiba priced any other manufacturers out of the market.
This is a good sign for mass market HDM adoption, and it is about time that we can begin to concentrate on a unified market.
Agreed.