I also read this article today in Tesco.
The way I read this is that universal HD players are going to be difficult due to licensing and/or the different technologies involved.
Blu-Ray has an advantage as Joe Sixpack* is going to be buying playstations in droves. HD-DVD has an advantage as it is out of the blocks quicker and can leverage the "DVD" name. But my gut feeling is that the industry has fxxxed itself again. Feeling pretty happy with my Crystalio scaler at the moment.
What was also interesting was that Bob said he made sure that MLP was included as mandatory in both formats so that,
which he expected and assumed would happen, the two formats would convergence into a single format (like original DVD).
On a positive note (if there can be such a thing in this debacle), if both HD DVD formats fail, perhaps there's more life in DVD-A yet?
*(C) 2006 chrislayeruk
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