They will, unwittingly, be purchasing old Blu-ray players that merely support Profile 1 or Profile 1.1 and thereby be limited from fully viewing Profile 2 Blu-ray releases. The problem I foresee is that many less-than-knowledgeable people will see great prices for Blu-ray players and snatch them up thinking they really got the standalone player at an amazingly good price. I have a great standalone Blu-ray player. Why? I've already adopted and I understand what I was doing. I, for one, do not look forward to the aftermath of this holiday season's Blu-ray adoption. And they basically won the format war by spending Toshiba out of it.
In my opinion Sony started going downhill when they started letting the Americans (I am one by the way) run the show there. This whole format war had nothing to do with being Japanese, but it had to do with American run Sony wanting to use a format (BluRay) that at the time offered what, in theory, was potentially superior DRM over HD DVD. The screw ups that have plagued Sony in recent years have been from the American side of the company. Yes the HQ is still in Japan, but the CEO is American. I'm not sure I would consider Sony to be a "Japanese company" any more. If you behave yourself in any retort, I won't report it to the mods, but I will warn you that in the past I have been forced to edit and apologize for similar statements, although in my case I said something nasty about Australians.
I find this comment to be ignorant of the facts and borderline racist. One can only hope the HD-DVD vs BD war was the last such stupid egotistical Japanese pissing contest consumers will have to endure. Or, now that commercial BD titles are finally dropping in price, it might make more sense to just replace your HD-DVDs with the studio BD version if you don't own too many. Get one of the last remaining HD-DVD drives while you can, and convert your HD-DVDs to BD or AVCHD.
#Timecop hddvd Pc
As bjs said in his post, there is no market for PC readers anymore, all you can find are burners, and no mfr is going to make a combo burner for a totally dead format (BD burners are complex enough as it is). There was no time to build demand for burners, so the format disappeared from PCs as well. So even though billions of yen were poured into HD-DVD, and even though it was on the front page of Best Buy sale circulars for two years, it added up to nothing and vanished into thin air one day. But Toshiba blinked first, they realized Sony really was insane enough to bankrupt itself just so it could say it "won" a format war nobody cared about (sorry, BD fans, but BD is nearly as big a joke as HD-DVD: ordinary boring ole DVD-RAM will still be in use long after BD is forgotten). And to be fair, HD-DVD did seem to have some advantages that might keep it viable. Your average consumer could not imagine something so heavily promoted at Best Buy or Wal*Mart was actually nothing more than a billion dollar roll of the dice which could disappear from the market a few months later. Americans in particular were tripped up by massive holiday promotions for HD-DVD in our largest national chainstores, back when Toshiba was desperately trying to build market share. One can only hope the HD-DVD vs BD war was the last such stupid egotistical corporate pissing contest consumers will have to endure.
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