You mean like they "colluded" to push DVD down our throats?
There were numerous studios backing HD-DVD.
Why is it then that there are STILL studios backing HD-DVD?
And that's different from regular DVD's how?
So companies do what they do for money? Well thank you Captain Obvious! And yes, Blu-Ray is expensive at the moment. So would HD-DVD if you disregard the price-dumbing. And guess what? DVD's were expensive as well in the beginning!
IIRC, there hasn't been that much glitches anymore. n the beginning, yes, but not anymore. DRM... Blu-Ray has a bit more DRM than HD-DVD does, and they BOTH are a lot worse in this area than regular DVD's are! So I fail to see how you can call HD-DVD somekind of "champion of the consumer" or something!
This format-war hurt both parties AND the consumers. Elimination of that market-confusion HELPS the consumers! And we still have competition: we have several companies making players, several studios releasing content and several retailers selling both. Having the market split in to two incompatible halves is NOT a good thing! It forces the consumer to buy both technologies and it reduces the economies of scale.
Yes you will. We have those with DVD's, and DVD has had no competition.
PS3 is a fine system, there's nothing wrong with it.
Your "never" will last two years, tops.
There has been widespread rumours that backers of HD-DVD paid hundreds of millions to studios for their support for HD-DVD. What do you think of that? And what companies have been forced to "shut down" due to them not backing Blu-Ray?
But studios NEED to be in some camp. They need to release their content on some format.
But selling out to HD-DVD would be A-OK, right?
You really dont understand the 1948 Paramount Decree.
http://www.whitenberg.de/FoxTheatreAtlanta/ParamountDecree.html
This is bad for the consumer. If this was the airline business and they all got together to control the market, there would be congressional hearings.
Wait 6 months after Toshiba calls it quit and you will understand my post.
What Sony did by paying off to win blocked free trade and technology.
Toshiba is not a studio and cannot compete with the studios.
yes some studios were on HDDVD but in the end, they will stick together when they always co finance 30-100 million dollar movies, of course they will stick together.
Surely if all the record labels got together and made 1 CD format or Digital Music Program , they would get the RIAA to distribute it.
There is no reason why 2 formats cant exsist. Currently EA SPORTS per say, releases the SAME GAMES across 3 systems and there is no confusion there on the consumer part. They know what they want, XBOX, PS3 or Wii.
You dont see the market or the makers say, Well there is confusion in the market place, we must make 1 GAME SYSTEM for all.
This is a way to manipulate the home video market with pricing, DRM, technology, licensing fees of the Blu Ray logo and technology to companies (which is a lucrative business), something the studios hated when they lost millions on the SD DVD technology to the Toshiba group.
go ahead and support Blu-Ray.
Im sticking with HD-DVD and HD downloads of whatever is not on HD-DVD.
Sony should not be rewarded for their actions of payola to hinder free trade.
Consumers are sheep if you gloss the marketing enough.
BR is inferior to HD DVD.
i know you have over $500-$100 tied to your Playstation , so I can understand why you defend it so much when deep down inside I know you understand that Sony and the studios are not in it for the consumer.
Regions on $34.99 disc still is the first major sign. More to come as they will cripple the discs with 5-10 layers of DRM and they will keep the technology at 2.0 for as long as they want. There is no competition and you have to live with it because there is no other HD format .
They got you by the blu-balls.
Now we can concentrate on drastically cutting the price of players so people who've bought widescreen TV's with HDMI inputs in the last three years will have the incentive to buy Blu-ray players. 
