[opendtv] Re: Defining Visions: They've Done It To Us Again. . .???!!!


Mark Aitken wrote:
 > My first questions are... Will HD-DVD (or BlueRay for that matter) ever
 > make it? Will there me the financial incentive to move towards it? Can
 > Mr./Mrs./Ms. "Average American" see the difference?

My own guess is that neither format will arrive for another 1-2 years 
and both will mostly inspire a mostly ho-hum attitude in the market when 
they do.  Hollywood may not yet be quite desperate enough about peaking 
DVD sales to be ready to put out something competitive.  And the major 
risk at this point may be taken by the CE companies busy with their 
format war, causing them to agree to Hollywood copy protection demands 
that cripple the roll out.

I'll personally probably wait for the holo HVD format that will likely 
follow.

- Tom

> http://www.ultimateavmag.com/joelbrinkley/805jb/index.html
> 
> The article starts out...
> 
> Here's a piece of really bad news for all 10 million of us who own 
> digital television sets that are more than six months old. You won't be 
> able to watch the new high-definition DVDs in high definition unless you 
> buy a new TV. Whose to blame for this? Hollywood, of course.
> 
> Toshiba, the primary backer of HD DVD, one of the two competing 
> high-definition formats, let it slip during road shows in Europe and the 
> United States last month that the one and only high-definition output 
> from its players will be HDMI, the digital input of choice on most new 
> digital TVs. As recently as a year ago, DVI, not HDMI, was the input of 
> choice, but even TVs with that older and still copy-protected input will 
> not be able to watch HD DVDs in high definition.
> 
> ... (go to article for more...) ...
> http://www.ultimateavmag.com/joelbrinkley/805jb/index.html
> 
> 
> My first questions are... Will HD-DVD (or BlueRay for that matter) ever 
> make it? Will there me the financial incentive to move towards it? Can 
> Mr./Mrs./Ms. "Average American" see the difference?
> 
> Then I ask... If it DOES succeed, who will compensate me for having 
> bought a set that does not have HDMI?
> 
 
 
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