If you perceive a format as higher quality, why lower your standards?
I was an early adopter of SACD because it brought incredible resolution to some of the music I loved. The rival format, DVD-A, turned it into a bitter format war with Sony on one side and Warner on the other. A few labels lined up with SACD, but largely thanks to downloadable music, neither format went very far. The result? I have a really great collection of SACDs that I enjoy often and I am glad I stuck to my guns and avoided DVD-A, even though several of the titles were amont my favorites.
In the same way, I'm not going to alter my buying habits, lower my standards and buy new hardware, just to support HD DVD. Even if some of my favorite films never see the light of day on Blu-ray, I am sticking with that format. Its capacity and capabilities make it the right choice.
At some point, the HD DVD camp will have to acknowledge Blu-ray is the superior format.
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