The format war is great!

[pedigree]

when you think about it, this format war is actually creating a competitive playing field which then forces the two sides to significantly lower their prices of both players and titles/games

[Anthony P]

when you think about it, this format war is actually creating a competitive playing field which then forces the two sides to significantly lower their prices of both players and titles/games

no, do you think Disney needs to compete more with Paramount because they are on different sides? or Panasonic with Toshiba. In the end the inter format competition is more important for pricing. Someone will look at the Sony and Samy player and decide on those two. There is a good chance he won't even look at the Toshiba. When I decide what title to buy I don't look at HD DVDs I don't own or care to own an HD DVD player. So I look at title A and B on BD and I compare quality of movie, features I want, price and I decide what to buy. Transformer had 0 chance and was in no competition for my $.

[PaulGo]

Plus without the format war we would not be exposed to all of Microsoft's BS along with their best representative of the same... Amir