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Originally Posted by Despare
The exclusivity thing is stupid. First you have the Blu Ray camp touting how Sony, Dinsey, etc... are exclusive to them and then they say the Paramount deal (Paramount is backing HD) is hurting consumers. This "format wars" is a joke and if BluRay and HD continue to co-exist their sales will never be great.
In six months (January 1st - July 1st 2007) HD DVD and Blu Ray about 2.34 million copies of movies. X-Men: The Last Stand alone sold over 5 million copies in it's first week on DVD. The market isn't ready...
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Indeed, the market is definitely not ready yet. One of the cheapest HD-DVD players with HDMI connectors is over 500 dollars. The technology isn't cheap enough yet, and very few people even have television sets that are capable of showing the difference in quality.