"Sam Spade" wrote:


There is a real chance consumers will react to both with a big yawn.

Home videotape recording was a revolutionary product that everyone wanted.
On the other hand, the new DVD formats offer so small an increment in
display quality over a good 480-P player on an HDTV screen, I think few
people will care enough to upgrade. At least they can afford to wait and
see which new format survives.


Once you see a Hi Def DVD properly connected to a compliant HDV set, you
won't consider the difference between that and up-converted 480P, to be a
"yawn."

I have seen it. It looks great to me: I want one. But it's not so
sensational that everyone will want it, as they did with home video
recorder/players. My daughter, a typical low-tech consumer, said she didn't
see what the big deal was.

I'll bet you that consumers will sit on the fence long enough waiting for
prices to come down that either Blu-Ray or HD DVD will die quickly; maybe
they'll even wait long enough that both will flop.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM