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Re: Blu-ray discs sales figures are higher then HD DVD discs this
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| Rich Z 2007-09-04, 5:25 pm |
| Tom Payne wrote:
> In alt.home-theater.misc John Carrier <jxc2@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hmmmmm. What makes you think that the "market itself" isn't
> determined by "politics or marketing."
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> Some of my friends believe that as the porn industry goes, so goes the
> market, and they've gone HD-DVD. But so far it's not clear that's how
> the industry is going.
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> I believe that the battle will be won on something that absurd, but ...
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> THP
I was talking with my local home theater dealer over the weekend. His
opinion is that the format war will not end, that there will be
co-existence. His rationale is this, by the end of the year he expects
we will see the start of an influx of Chinese made, true dual format
players priced comparably with BluRay players ($500 range). The cost
adder for the HD-DVD drive is small, and if you had a choice of a BluRay
player or a combo player for essentially the same money, the consumer
will go combo so as not to get stung.
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| Rich Z 2007-09-07, 9:25 am |
| rdclark wrote:
> On Sep 5, 10:16 pm, "Jason Burgon" <jayn...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> What we didn't anticipate was that they would both lose!
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Several years ago I bought a Denon DVD player which has DVD-A
capability. I do have a few DVD-A discs, am amazed with their quality,
distraught that there are almost no new releases worth buying, and
concerned that ultimately when I upgrade to High Definition DVD, the
player wont support the format.
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| Doug McDonald 2007-09-07, 5:25 pm |
| rdclark wrote:
> On Sep 5, 10:16 pm, "Jason Burgon" <jayn...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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SACD seems still quite alive; out of 16 disks I just bought,
three are SACD. Most but not all of the others were recorded
in plain stereo ... there is no surround or center channel to
cause a need for SACD. The recordings I have on SACD span the
time period of initial recording from 1955 to 2005. The 1955-1967
ones of course are not surround, but rather three channel
stereo with a separate center channel, and play as such on the
SACD player.
Doug McDonald
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