HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! PS3tards must be cacking themselves right now.
Wal-Mart is to sell a discounted HD-DVD player, for under $300. THis
will DECIMATE the Blu-Ray market, and force PS3tards to admit it was a
massive mistake to force the format wars onto the console gamers with
their over-priced format.
DVD didn't really take off until standalone players went sub-$300 -
and once this hits the shelves, expect to see Blu-Ray movie sales fall
further and further behind HD-DVD.
The HD market is too small right now, and if a handful of movie
enthusasts on AV Forums can sway the overall marketshare of HD-DVD by
a single days sales, then it proves that Blu-Ray hardly registers int
he grand market scheme of things.
The difference now is that HD-DVD is the first to hit mainstream
pricing. You will see HD-DVDs selling not in the tens of thousands but
the millions - and as this happens, Sony will find their fledgling
format sidelined and pushed into the niche. Much like the UMD format
really.
Sure, more manufacturers support Blu-Ray, but with a flood of cheap
Chinese machines supporting HD-DVD looming, that will equate to 0
advantage.
Furthermore, as HD-DVD blows up in Blu-Ray's face, movie studios will
be quick to support the new format too.
Fox have already cancelled a lot of their movies on Blu-Ray.
Without Blu-Ray selling bucketloads to consumers, Sony's plans to cost-
reduce the PS3 over time will blow up in their face, as they won't be
able to reach the economies of scale that HD-DVD will be. Meanwhile,
Microsoft will eventually put HD-DVD in every 360 at no additional
cost, and suddenly any advantage (real or otherwise) the PS3 had will
evaporate.
http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/enterta...ap_hd-dvd_deck
Goodbye Blu-Ray, hello HD-DVD.