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This site has always been pro hd dvd, let it go, its over, all HD DVD is doing now is preventing casual consumers from making the leap from dvd to high definition movies.

All I am doing is admitting that I am NOT the average consumer. How could I be, I write about this stuff. But even before I got into this industry, I liked to buy technology as soon as I could afford it and probably before the majority of consumers. I wouldn’t put down a thousand dollars each for two different…

Sorry but this is ridicules: “I am too close to the subject to know if I would have put down the money for both if I didn’t need to do so. Given that I pay monthly for three HD-DVRs, I probably would have.” You say let the consumer choose and this is what you say?  That’s what you call choosing?…

I agree Cindy, canceling the press conference was the wrong thing to do as it sent the wrong message in too many ways to list. I have both players. I prefer watching HD DVD. What I don’t care for is the “Blu-Ray won and everyone who didn’t pick blu were wrong.” mentality. Guess what? I’m actually winning right now because…

Just because I only get 2 emails about enlarging things, it doesn’t make those emails not spam. You talk about blu-ray hysteria but turn a blind eye to all the hd-dvd hysteria from the commenters on this site (and there are a lot more pro hd-dvd commenters than there are blu-ray commenters on this site). And you fabricate theories suggesting…

Well I was there too. Its easy for electronic house to be gosh oh golly nice now, after being an innapproriately unabashed non-objective Blu ray supporter from day one.

Storage options are about more than distributing movies—the consumer motive—it is also about storing data and having the technology available for *those* users.  We can now purchase Blu-ray writers, and that is more important in a more important sense (and not just to me) than watching Ratatouille in HD.

Well, hardly “spam” Steve. Just a couple of replies to all that blu ray hysteria. Anyway, by next autumn I’m sure we’ll see who the ‘evergreens’ are.

Oh, and LaserDisc DTS, LaserDisc 8”, and DVD Dolby and DVD DTS….(and I am sure there are more!!).

So Sony lost with the better tech last time - Beta. (of course that ignores the other formats lost inbetween like when they abandoned their own SACD). And this time the better format loses again. The customer lost in both - just How do we do this???  But in the end - the bulk of the audience just doesn’t care.…