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Originally Posted by hmurchison

Consumers can take a passive role in this battle or agressive. When I have both players I'll be sending Universal emails asking them to support Blu-Ray and sending the BD studios the same message. Let the consumers decide the nextgen format.

I understand what your saying, but if universal would support bluray we wouldnt have a format war at all. Letting people choose only muddies the water for people that arent all that tech savy. they want to buy something they know will be around for a bit (just the the guy brian was talking to).

I like your approach for some things (basic competition). However I think a format war is different then normal competition.

The only positive thing about the war so far as i made BRA get their shit together fast when they were being compared to hddvd right from the onset. Maybe without hddvd existence we would still be dealing with sub par bd's.

Even with that above point I think its still best to avoid a format war.