HD DVD Advantages?

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Originally Posted by canerzi

This is the most absurd area of the whole format war... Not counting PS3's as players.

Now people who are into HD Movies and people who are willing to buy next-gen consoles to play games are not exactly mutually exclusive. So how to evaluate the PS3 users who are also potential blu-ray player consumers? Would you expect them to buy a stand-alone player too? They already have a player. And mind you, when talking about PS3 owners, you are talking about a large group interested in HD media.

This fault logic only makes sense if PS3 owners would never buy a standalone player in the absence of PS3. If PS3 did not exist, then many of them WOULD buy blu-ray players.

Right. The same example would apply to the HD-DVD drive add-on, if it didn't exist, they might sell more standalones...but wait, maybe they would anyone, because I hear the add-on is a POS.