Which was the whole point of the less-ambitious HD DVD: get a working HD format out there that did NOT NEED 5 years to get cheap and full-featured. HD DVD was cheap(ish) and complete in two years.
It was also dead in two years, but that's beside the point.
The main argument by the HDDVD camp was that Blu-ray would take a lot longer to get to completeness. Asserting that this is normal does not mean that the HDDVD folks were wrong.
The question remains: will the format survive the normal growth cycle, or will it be superceded by downloads before it's mature. To be seen.
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Which was the whole point of the less-ambitious HD DVD: get a working HD format out there that did NOT NEED 5 years to get cheap and full-featured. HD DVD was cheap(ish) and complete in two years.
It was also dead in two years, but that's beside the point.
The main argument by the HDDVD camp was that Blu-ray would take a lot longer to get to completeness. Asserting that this is normal does not mean that the HDDVD folks were wrong.
The question remains: will the format survive the normal growth cycle, or will it be superceded by downloads before it's mature. To be seen.