Gotta respect Bill Hunt

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Originally Posted by MrBogey

HD DVD is region free. If they can get the EU to force support in Europe then by default studios will be releasing films in Europe that will be imported to America. In short, exclusivity for Blu-ray ends while HD DVD gets to keep their meager assets exclusive. Not to mention the studios will have to support the lowest common denominator. Meaning everything will be VC-1 at under 16Mb/s on a 25GB blu-ray with DD+ and TrueHD only.

At that point HD DVD will be the only truly sensible choice.

MS knows what they're doing.

Actually Disney et al then have the choice of releasing on multiple HD-DVD discs what would fit on one BD and charging more money for the HD-DVD version since it costs them more to produce. Or removing all extra features from the HD-DVD since it won't fit or providing that low bitrate version that will look inferior to the full 50 BD version etc..so I wouldn't jump the gun. There is also the argument that a single DVD standard was GOOD for consumers and MS attempt to divide the market is anti-competitive in nature to confuse the consumer. The EU is already quite familiar with their failure to comply with previous orders and engage in proprietary lock-in strategies in the Windows world..not going to go unnoticed as they make these claims. AVC (Mpeg), Java are much more open formats than HDi and VC-1 - controlled by a single vendor with a history of abusing their monopoly position. The BDA is a broad coalition that insulates against abuse far more readily than the alternative.