Because I'm the Ex-Weightlifter-Geek out of all my Friends and Family, they always ask me to predict the future with new hardware. So far I've been pretty good at doing just that. Last year I told them to get a player for both Blue-Ray and HD-DVD because some movies might only be sold on one or the other. Also told them I was almost 100% some stores with lock in only selling one or the other, such as Walt-Disney. And when that started happening this year it was no big shock to me. I also said it's going to come down to price and where to buy it. Most people could careless about the technical aspects of which is better so long as it looks good on the screen. Time and time again Sony has come out with some good products but the people of the World for some reason don't like to support just one companies media formats. It's like too much royalty or power into one company or something? Anyway, The HD-DVD I knew would make it big in the Euro markets and it was only a matter of time before the US and Canada picked up on that as well. Soon as BestBuy and Target started doing Blue-Ray only I knew 100% that that game would fail to win because of Wal-Mart. Just think about this for a minute.. HD-DVD sounds like it's in the same group as CD-RW or DVD-R. We instantly know it's High Definition and DVD. No real reason to say anything more about what laser color it's using. Simply look at the BetaMax and VCR media.. long history there that is proving it's a repeat even today. If Sony changed the Blue-Ray name into something else like DVD-BR it would make more sense to the masses. And to top it all off China, the maker of 80% of all our cheap "Technological Junk" is cashing in to their own version of HD-DVD formats.
Glad to see they are finally selling sub 200$ HD players. To be honest I still think that's a little high priced for a player, but it's one of those must have toys that I'll just wait until they are 50$ and unlocked or have mod-chips for..lol XD
Glad to see they are finally selling sub 200$ HD players. To be honest I still think that's a little high priced for a player, but it's one of those must have toys that I'll just wait until they are 50$ and unlocked or have mod-chips for..lol XD