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Originally Posted by ricoman I think it's a little premature to say that, they may have been adopted by some studios and media companies |
You forgot to include license holders and standalone recorder and drive manufacturers. AND tens of thousands of consumers (too few to be considered mass but critical enough) who have used Blu-ray for years. Whether some consumers like it or not indeed hardly affects market development unless some manufacturers or whole industries make some very serious mistakes. And to assume the first Blu-ray and
HD-DVD products will be expensive may also be wrong. If there's anything "history" tells us, it's that the first of those newer generations will be priced much cheaper than those of previous ones.
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before there is much of a movie title inventory in the BD/HD format.
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Are you aware that the first DVD disks were factory-pressed DVD movie titles whereas the first Blu-ray disks were very rewritable cartridge-protected disks? So, how many people had DVD players by 1999? It took even longer for the United States to have 30,000,000 consumers who have at least one DVD player. Just 3 years ago, most people even here said they were staying with CD, the dominant optical storage standard then. The industry knows about it far better than most consumers because it's their billions of money to protect and to grow. Compared to DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD are growing faster from all aspects.