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Originally Posted by aristotles
Guys, if the content providers decide to pick blu-ray based on their world-wide sales figures none on that will matter.
The choice will be made for North America and historical data is irrelevant given the recent fall in the US dollar.
The US might have the content but studios care about sales overall. China is an emerging market which could easily end the format war globally if they went with blu-ray.
Cheap players without content is a dead end.
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I don't think the local China market will consume a lot of HD media for a while, the disks are just too expensive when people are use to buying boot DVDs and VCDs. VCD's still sell well in Singapore and Malaysia as the disks are probably 50% cheaper then DVDs.
Plus, Asian content is quite a big percentage of the market here. Many of my coworkers spend more of their time watching Korean drama and hardly ever watch Hollywood movies. And most of this is all on VCDs.