All these comments on prediction of how Bluray is doing, how streaming downloadable HD video is doing... Sort of reminds me of the prediction of HD DVD in the recent past...
It really is sort of silly to predict this and that, only time will tell... I know, because I am an early adopter of new technologies.. I have been there... Yes, I have a Toshiba HD DVD player, and then I got a Panasonic Bluray player, and I have the latest Oppo upconversion player, and I have a 60" Pioneer Kuro and a 50" Vizio... Sure the difference between VHS and DVD is REALLY obvious in terms of gross performance parameters, but the difference between SD and HD is also REALLY obvious in many significant ways, just in different parameters...
Bottom line is, no one really knows how this will turn out... The success of any format depends on many factors and the factors which will kill a format are usually not predicted by anyone... Otherwise Toshiba would not have poured millions of $ into HD DVD... Otherwise all of us will buy technology stocks with 100% confidence and all of us will be rich... Truth is, all this prediction is really just chatter talk... I think its a bit amusing to see both camps here so confident... I suspect there is more ego here talking than anything else.. HD DVD camp was also very confident for a time.. ONLY TIME WILL TELL...
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All these comments on prediction of how Bluray is doing, how streaming downloadable HD video is doing... Sort of reminds me of the prediction of HD DVD in the recent past...
It really is sort of silly to predict this and that, only time will tell... I know, because I am an early adopter of new technologies.. I have been there... Yes, I have a Toshiba HD DVD player, and then I got a Panasonic Bluray player, and I have the latest Oppo upconversion player, and I have a 60" Pioneer Kuro and a 50" Vizio... Sure the difference between VHS and DVD is REALLY obvious in terms of gross performance parameters, but the difference between SD and HD is also REALLY obvious in many significant ways, just in different parameters...
Bottom line is, no one really knows how this will turn out... The success of any format depends on many factors and the factors which will kill a format are usually not predicted by anyone... Otherwise Toshiba would not have poured millions of $ into HD DVD... Otherwise all of us will buy technology stocks with 100% confidence and all of us will be rich... Truth is, all this prediction is really just chatter talk... I think its a bit amusing to see both camps here so confident... I suspect there is more ego here talking than anything else.. HD DVD camp was also very confident for a time.. ONLY TIME WILL TELL...
I do know I'm usually a first-mover but on this one, I don't see enough value in BR to bet on it over streaming.