[QUOTE="m3Boarder32"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="m3Boarder32"] I have no idea who is going to win, but it's not gonna happen anytime soon.
Standalone HD-DVD players are going to be under $200 real soon, Toshiba's HD-D1 & HD-A1 are already around $260 online brand new.
mjarantilla
Sony is coming out with a $600 BluRay player that is almost certainly superior to the PS3's BD player in every way. Also, other companies like Panasonic will be putting out even cheaper, but potentially even better players.
HD-DVD will lose. It's already lost, as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't matter how cheap it gets; like any hardware product, it's the software that drives sales, not the hardware.Yeah...Cuz a future $600 dollar BD player is the same thing as a $260 dollar HD-DVD player that is already out....
Companies can always go nuetral, just look at PS3 and it's "exclusive" (not anymore) games.
The $600 one is Sony's, but other companies are also making better and cheaper BluRay players. And as long as BluRay has as much support as it's getting, it'll still be the format of choice for pretty much everyone except lemmings and die-hard Universal Studios fans, even if its players do cost more.The average joe six pack does not know certain studios are exclusive to a certain format. They go by what they see, and what they see is that there are just as many HD-DVD movies as their are Bluray movies, and they see a HD-DVD player cost half that of a Bluray player, that's why standalone HD-DVD players outsell BD players by far.
$200 is the magic number for a HD/BD player, and HD-DVD will reach that price point much sooner.
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