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1. How long can this format war rage on? I see no end in site. I would like to buy only my most favorite movies on Blu-ray, the ones I watch over and over (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Incredibles, the Bourne series). I will not be suckered into spending all kinds of money to replace 200 or so DVDs my four kids, my wife and I own ourselves already.
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Not more than another year or so
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2. Can both formats survive? Sure, I bet on Blu-Ray to win, I like one Kingdom of Heaven Disc vs. 2 which would be on HD DVD (if it even goes there.) Could this be like -RW and +RW where both formats will continue to exist and be "standard"?
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No. Stores are not going to stock essentially duplicates of 10,000 movies. With writeable discs they might stock 3-4 brands
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3. This is about business and money, and both sides have a lot of stake, so do their stockholders. Thus, I see neither side giving up, and my favorite store in the world, Best Buy, will not take sides, but will sell both...
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No, they'll chose at the latest when that first aisle starts to fill up.
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4. I forsee a lot my dad says as being right, like IPods losing to smaller and smaller Laptops, and the Laptop becoming our TV, our satellite Dish, (My netflix now), Laptops even becoming our phones. Heck, Toshiba is selling a Laptop that you can plug into your home entertainment system that has HD DVDs, I am assuming Sony has one out too...(not to mention, I watch a lot of movies on my train rides to and from work)
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Laptops are not designed to be used like a desktop is. They're simply not durable enough unless you spend $3-4000 on one. Battery life is not enough with the kind of horses HD playback requires to watch a whole movie anyway, and on a laptop screen the difference it makes is negligable over DVD.
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5. Could both sides lose over time?
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It's possible, but very unlikely
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6. The Best Buy store I go to, now has Blu-Ray discs and HD DVDs the first stands you see in the movies section. They are plugging for people to stop buying DVDs, I can tell. Where can I get good UP TO DATE INFORMATION on the format war, who is winning, and what merchants like Wal Mart are planning on doing?
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Here, The Digital Bits.com
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7. I also see "less educated" consumers deciding this war. Most of my neighbors don't speak english well, and I see them running to Walmart, buying a cheap HD DVD player (which doesn't even play at 1080p, and they have no idea what that even is to begin with. Not to mention, three of my neighbors have their TVs in their garage along with a bar, so they have a completely different mindset than I do... I think those not as well informed buy more stuff nationally than us that spend the time researching products first, and I do think price will be a factor. Since I park my car in my garage, not the front lawn, to me, I want to buy the best...but I see most Americans no longer buying the best...thus, can the uneducated less knowledable make the impact I fear?
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I don't think enough of them will notice before it's already over