Attention early adopters!

[Pilam69]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

I am wondering why there are so many axes to grind and why there are such entrenched camps surrounding this format war.

In the spring, I finally had enough money on hand after obligations to go and buy some nice home theater hardware (52" XBR2 LCD, AV receiver, 6.1 speakers, DVR, and a Sony Bluray player). But after all of that, a few hundred extra bucks for a HDDVD player was a pittance. And given that all I really want to do is watch movies at home on a big screen in high definition with surround sound, It was the right thing to do. I would hate to have to miss out on those movies that are only released in one format. Other than a little money, I have nothing personally at stake in this so-called war. There are so many more important things to take a "moral" stand on.

This is all about the FUN. Feeling like you have to stick it to one set of guys or the other or getting all uptight when you perceive your "team" to suffer a setback must really take the fun out of it.

Just my 2 cents.

Jon Steinhauer

For the studios it's pure money, plain and simple. There can be no dispute that the studios will sell their soul for money, see Paramount.

For the rest of us, we don't want to be wrong. No one likes to be told their product is inferior so the HD-Blah camp has a huge inferiority complex. For the Blu-Ray camp it is just simply that we don't want to be told we have made a wrong choice. What usually happens when people don't want to be wrong? They argue that their position is right. Hence the vitriol and anger you see constantly on this and other boards, see AVS.