Commentary: A War of Hype, and Paramount's Big Bombshell

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This is an interesting article to read
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Joshua_Zyber/Commentary:_A_War_of_Hype,_and_Paramounts_Big_Bomb shell_/921
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“I think it's time we all took a step back and tried to look at this from a more balanced perspective. If the video game market can survive with multiple formats, each offering their own exclusive releases, how is the High Definition market any different? Personally, I foresee both HD DVD and Blu-ray coexisting for a long time, and potentially both thriving. If competition between the two formats continues to result in improved quality, lower prices, and a steady stream of movies in High Definition, that's a good thing in my book.”
If both HDTV optical formats coexist then most likely the HDTV optical market will be a niche market like the Laserdisc. If BLU-RAY (or the less quality HD-DVD format) won the format war then we would start to see mainstream consumer adoption of HDTV optical discs. One of the reasons the DVD format was so popular was the entire industry supported the format.