Amazon.com Blu vs HD DVD forum needs our help!!!

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by TheGlowPro

My friends and family are part of the problem, not the solution. Hardheadedness runs abound. They're buying into all the buzz on the Toshibas and I fear this is snowballing into making it the "hip" gift this year. Say it ain't so. I feel like I've invested a small fortune into my PS3 and Blu titles and Sony has sat by letting all the momentum slip away. Is there any chance of seeing a $199 player this season?

Ain't family always that way?

I'd suggest you do what you can to convince them the Toshiba's aren't such a great deal...If they're at all technical, you can demonstrate how lack of storage and bandwidth has already hobbled Paramount's 2 biggest blockbuster releases of the year (neither Transformers nor Shrek 3 have lossless or uncompressed audio) before the HDM market has left its infancy. If they're of a more economic bent, point out that Toshiba has virtually eliminated the possibility of any other manufacturer's support by taking the bottom out of the market price. If they're movie fans, show how many more titles they'll be missing on HD-DVD than on BD because of BD's greater studio support.

And if none of those help---family does what family will do anyway. They'll get an upscaling DVD player out of it, you'll have your BDs, and by this time next year you ought to be able to chuckle patronizingly at them over turkey.

Probably not going to be a sub-$200 player offered at that regular price this year, although there will certainly be sales...and there's a chance profile 1.0 players could get marked down before Xmas.

The BDA's momentum still looks fine according to the Nielsens. Don't get too caught up in the online waging of the war---if all those folks dogging BD on Amazon had BD players they'd spend more time watching movies and less time propagandizing. All we can do is buy the movies we want and hope for the best. I certainly understand that money is no small object: I've got two kids and don't really fit any early adopter profile. But for the enjoyment my family has gotten I consider it money well spent.