Seriously Joystiq I'm a Bluray supporter now and even I find your lack of professionalism completely disgusting.
About the recent Toshiba/HD DVD news...oh well. HD DVD had all the oppurtunity in the world to win this format war. Unfortunately the people in charge didn't seem to get the fact that they were in a WAR. As in you need to fight hard to win it?
Horrible marketing in the end is what killed them. Studio support was a good thing for Bluray to have but in the end its the consumer who makes the decision and most consumers would have made the jump to HD DVD if Toshiba and its supporters had simply done a good job of providing the WHY.
“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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Seriously Joystiq I'm a Bluray supporter now and even I find your lack of professionalism completely disgusting.
About the recent Toshiba/HD DVD news...oh well. HD DVD had all the oppurtunity in the world to win this format war. Unfortunately the people in charge didn't seem to get the fact that they were in a WAR. As in you need to fight hard to win it?
Horrible marketing in the end is what killed them. Studio support was a good thing for Bluray to have but in the end its the consumer who makes the decision and most consumers would have made the jump to HD DVD if Toshiba and its supporters had simply done a good job of providing the WHY.