HD DVD better than Blu - HOW?

[Anthony P]

You mention cost cost cost but these costs are not affecting consumers, so I have to ask (like we do with disc replication costs)...why should we care?

Just playing Devils Advocate btw, i agree and understand...but would like to hear from others how this affects us? the consumer.

I think the differences are

1) disk replication is minimal WRT ultimate cost. What I mean is that the actual replication is usualy around 25-30 cents/disk (just doing a search of DVD replication, could be even less for real studios) that is why sometimes two disk sets are much less then 1 disk and why sometimes you can buy movies on sale for ridiculously low prices (under 5$) and why pirates can sell movies <1$

2) we all agree that right now there are few people that will buy HD players (war, prices too high....) but if it goes mainstream ten most people need to buy (d'uh). So price will become extremely important when it is time to get the masses. A 20-30$ could be the determining factor for someone going "do I stick with DVD or go HD"