Re: Blu-ray camp predicts 10 million players same time next year

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To the Average Joe/ 99.9% of the population who don't care about this "war", what are the benefits of true HD over upconverted SD DVD to justify the very significant cost? 1080i looks pretty good already and who needs to see 40 Year Old Virgin on HD?

Average Joe don't care about HD. Average Joe CAN'T AFFORD HDTV OR HD PLAYER. Average Joe struggling to make payments on rent, mortgage, and gasoline. Average Joe will get the inexpensive adapter by 2009, to let his family keep their analog TV's... AND STILL watch DIGITAL-ONLY channels.

Of course the Average Joe are not us: Geekwares, hardware afficionados, or gadget fanboys.

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"Sounds like it won't happen because of corporate GREED."

Well, for whatever reasons, Warner changed earlier announced plans to release THEIR content in TotalHD. Again, I really believe it was because they did not receive commitments from other studios to also release in TotalHD, so if Warner/New Line was the only one supporting it, they probably felt it was NOT WORTH THE EXPENSE of releasing TotalHD discs... that would end up being yet another disc that retailers would have to stock and sell.

-Love Hendrix! (The Loverboy)
~ DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/KURO Plasma owner ~

Xplay, pardon my italian but BULLPLOP.

I don't care if you live in a Manhattan penthouse or a Kentucky outhouse, there are certain luxury items that everyone has and two of them are a tv and a player to play movies on em.

Again the argument that people can't afford or don't care about having the best available movie player is the same argument people made for VHS. Most guys SAID they didn't want DVD until they saw it at the store or their friend's house.

Then they had to have it, period.

I see tons of Joe Shmoes at best buy salivating over the stuff. And when their TV fails, which ultimately it must, they will buy an HDTV. Have you compared prices for HDTVs and their Tube counterparts? People ARE deciding that for a few hundred bucks more, they'd rather have their HDTV

And guess what, these "average shmoes" all have cable! Try having a pre-teen without cable in the house. It don't happen. And then they see HDTV on cable. You think they're going to go "oh no, DVD is just fine."

And UPCONVERSION? DOUBLE FEH! Who the eff is going to be dumb enough to spend 100 bucks on upconversion when eventually they can spend 200 on a better player? And the prices will come down, we're only at the beginning of this.

I've seen it all, jerk asses. People saying VHS won't take off because people don't care about having a cinema experience at home.

Then people don't care about the higher quality of sound and video DVD offers and besides they won't want to replace their VHS "library."

BULL PLOP on all of you!'

BULLPLOOOOP!

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[Post edited by comicgeekoid on Jan 10, 2008]

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Then people don't care about the higher quality of sound and video DVD offers and besides they won't want to replace their VHS "library."

Eh DVD had a lot more than better audio and picture. There were some bigger selling points for DVD.

1. Discs are smaller than tapes so they take up less room.
2. DVDs, unlike VHS, will not wear out over time. If you take good care of them they can last basically forever.
3. Scene selection, skipping, menus, etc...All features not seen on VHS at all. Also with DVD we started to see the ability to put full seasons of tv shows on DVD. Something that, while not entirely impossible with VHS, would have been too expensive and taken up too much room. Thats why you mostly just saw a few tapes with "best of" episodes.

Just my opinion, but I think the leap from VHS to DVD is bigger than DVD to hi def.

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[Post edited by NutManIV on Jan 10, 2008]

Even with both formats combined consoles included over the past 2 years there is not even 3 million total sold. Maybe they meant 10 million BD sitting on store shelves!

Sorry I just had to say it!

1. No one cared.
2. No one cared.
3. Okay, here'sa good point. But people are quickly seeing that Hi Def discs in either format have MORE features and more imporantly, they are seeing for themselves how good it looks.

You got a little bullplop on your shoulder there.