What Are Retailers Thinking?

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The only people who will lose more if this war continues than consumers are the retailers. if there is another pro-red movie studio switch, there is a good chance it will just turn this war into a stalemate. if a stalemate is the case than i fully support MS, Apple, or Sony moving towards a HD download based service as HDM will basically be a niche format that will die a slow, painful death.

if this war fails, downloads will be the future, and if downloads are the future, then the retailers are going to get cut out. can you imagine what it would do to the bottom lines of Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, and Wal-Mart if all of the sudden they didn't carry movies at their stores. These stores have the most to lose out of anybody. Why aren't they ensuring that they will carry movies for at least another generation and simply pick the format that is the most popular (blu-ray) with both consumers, manufacturers and studios. If retailers dropped HD DVD, then Toshiba would have a very hard time penetrating the market. I mean lets face it there is no way retailers are making hardly any cash off hd dvd hardware, so why do they put up with selling something that they cannot make money off of and could cause them to lose a big chunk of their business in the future.

Toshiba would be forced into stop making hd dvd players. Why don't they stop carrying hd dvd software too. Studios don't make cash off selling software to consumers, they make it off selling software to retaliers and if retaliers refused to buy it, they would have no choice but to align themselves with what was selling. We like to sit in here everyday and say, Paramount was retarded, Universal is stupid, why doesn't WB make a choice. However, they are the ones making the big bucks off short term payoffs (not WB, yet) and if HDM fails, they will still make similar profits off a new way of getting movies into consumers hands (note all the suden retaliers don't get mentioned in the money exchanging process), they aren't being stupid, they are making money and thats what businesses do.

Yeah, paramount was short sighted, but whats the worse that happens, they kill off hdm and sell just as many movies via a download service as they would have with blu-ray and hd dvd combined, plus they get a 150 million dollars. thats not stupid, thats good business. who is being stupid right now are the retaliers. they are the ones who could seriously influence studio decisions way more than a check from one of these hd promo groups. they are the ones who have more to lose in this war than anybody else.

So next time somebody accusses the studios of being the ones that are going to run HDM formats into the ground, remember the studios are only going to do what makes them money, and that the retaliers should be held just as responsible if not more than the studios for dragging this war out and possibly destroying HDM as a whole. They are the ones who carry HDMI dvd 1080p players, 1080i HD DVD players, and blu-ray players that only cause mass confusion with consumers, to the point where the consumer says screw it, ill stay with my dvd player and dvds. If there was upconversion and blu-ray there would be no confusion. they are the ones who don't educate their employees enough to the point where everyday we hear a new story of some clown telling consumers something completely wrong information.

Studios aren't causing the confusion, the retailers are. And its absolutely mind boggling that the retailers are the ones doing this considering they have the most to lose in this war by a long shot.