Paramount HD DVD payoff mentioned in Viacom financials

[Kris Deering]

Providing a reasoned inflection point (blu-ray players dominating shelves) is hardly a mantra. Sounds more like a recognition of previous technology patterns driven by mfgs and producers to make things happen.

The previous technology that everyone here is so quick to compare BD to didn't have the same playing field BD has. VHS was hardly a contender given the vast differences between DVD and VHS, and on-demand and downloads weren't even an option.

I would love nothing more than to have Blu-ray at the same level as DVD is now a few years from now. But I'm not going to just outright believe it is a sure thing. Despite what others here say about me, we all want the same thing. I just don't subscribe to the blind faith that it is a sure thing now that HD DVD is gone or the childish poking at "red ants" as if they were any worse than the zealots so often on display here.