Blu-Ray meeting next week. Fox titles and "key partner" announcement

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I gotta throw out two things...

1. 45GB HD-DVD discs may be a possibility. Since Toshiba is well aware of the Blu-ray spec for BD50, then it would be very smart on their part to design their players to do HD45 discs. Then NOT release any of them, or provide 100% actual info on it being possible until BD50 is release officially. Then simply respond with "Yes, but we can do 45GB, so what else do you have to offer?"

2. If HD-DVD really does have the price advantage, then if they had the studio and vendor support, they would clean up. That is a very big thing IMO. I believe Blu-ray will win 100% because it has manufacturer and studio support. No other reason is going to do it. Pricing will get in line, feature sets will begin to level off... and then all that'll remain is studio and CE support. Game, set, match - Blu-ray.

If that were all flipped over, or an even number was up for both sides? Then, I believe Blu-ray would be the underdog. The technology is not prime time yet. It's well behind HD-DVD for overall image quality and available technologies... But, HD-DVD is Toshiba - so you gotta take the Toshiba, or wait for some other format to adopt.