Toshiba Offers $100 Rebate on New HD DVD Players with 5 free movies

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There are millions of uneducated consumers when it comes to consumer electronics. When people see 1080P up convert DVD players in stores for around $50 some people think any standard DVD will become 1080P HDTV quality. Others might purchase a HD-DVD dual disc and play the DVD side and upconvert it to 1080P.
Then some might one day see Toshiba players for $199-$299 and purchase it and think any standard DVD they play in it will be HDTV quality. Hopefully people will not be stupid enough to purchase a HD-DVD player and play only 480I DVD’s. The HD-DVD camps strategy is to get the HD-DVD player prices down to levels near DVD players so that millions will be sold. Then they will try and get Fox and Disney to release dual disc HD-DVD’s or standard HD-DVD’s. I do not think Fox and Disney are interested in fueling a format war and will stick with BLU-RAY.
In this format war the most important numbers will always be the number of BLU-RAY movies sold compared to the number of standard HD-DVD discs sold (not including combo disc sales since combo discs do not require one to own a HD-DVD player).
Bundle all this with universal players coming to market and new articles about the format war being released every week and what you have is nothing but mainstream total consumer confusion.