dolphinius_rex wrote:And yet many day and date releases on HD DVD cost more then their Blu-Ray counterparts...
I haven't found that to be the case, with the exception of dual discs (SD DVD & HD-DVD). Checking amazon shows them to be similarly priced, if anything BR seeems to have a common price of $23.95 vs $19.95 for HD-DVD.
dolphinius_rex wrote:But don't worry, cheaper players for both formats are on their way. But I just don't think people will accept both formats as a requirement to get all their movies. It's highly inconvenient.
As an early adopter of SACD & DVD-A, this whole war is earily close to how those formats started out. From very early talk of dual format players not being possible, to shortly after that they actually appeared on the market, to customers deciding that the extra fidelity wasn't worth replacing their libraries for. MP3's didn't help that war at all, if anything the ipod helped kill them (or seriously stunt them). IMO, the studios better hope that cheap dual format players appear on the market, that may be the only thing that can save HD optical media.