My 2 cents and I'm no fan-boy of either format. I want 1 single format or universal players.
With that out of the way, this statement from Sony shows that they just blinked in this war. Yes, you could argue that this is just a sell off of cheap players, but this move just got 90,000 players in the market with new HD-DVD customers. (Kind of the same plan Sony had with the PS3; sneak in a Blu-Ray player with your game system) The goal is not to sell hardware but software. Now people have the player, they will get movies.
Come January 08, I would bet that we will see a press release from Warner stating that they are dropping the Blu and moving solely to the Red.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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My 2 cents and I'm no fan-boy of either format. I want 1 single format or universal players.
With that out of the way, this statement from Sony shows that they just blinked in this war. Yes, you could argue that this is just a sell off of cheap players, but this move just got 90,000 players in the market with new HD-DVD customers. (Kind of the same plan Sony had with the PS3; sneak in a Blu-Ray player with your game system) The goal is not to sell hardware but software. Now people have the player, they will get movies.
Come January 08, I would bet that we will see a press release from Warner stating that they are dropping the Blu and moving solely to the Red.