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Originally Posted by aclowers
I went to Blockbuster the other night and wanted to rent some high-def movies to play in my high-def player. They told me that they were no longer renting regular high-def movies, that blue-ray had replaced them. You cannot play the blue ray movies in your high def players, either.
Now, I have been pricing the Blue-Ray players and I think they may have jumped the gun a bit. Yes, the quality is very impressive. However, the prices of these new machines is unbelievable. Not many people are going to be able to afford them until the prices go down. So, here I am with a high-def dvd player and nothing to play in it.  |
You know, though, the fact that Sony decided to reverse its previous stance of cooperation regarding formats when the DVD was developed a decade and a half ago to avoid "format wars" a la VHS vs. Beta really
bites! Sony should have tried to get together with Toshiba and co-developed Blu-ray and made it the standard
HD home video format from Day One.
Sony should also have made the Blu-ray players "downward compatible" so it could play DVDs until that format is phased out. Just my two cents' worth as a consumer.
