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Or, Joe Six pack will be living with his parents and have all that disposable income which isn't enough for a house for buying the new HD formats! 
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But he will have to listen to his Parents Music (Radio Two). He wont like that! Solution: Lose your self with room filling iPod sound. HD just doesnt seem to fit this scenario I think you will agree. Like the Chancellor, these companies are always looking to squeeze more cash out of us. well there is a Limit and we are close to it. Cheers, Chris 
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Time will tell. I just sincerely hope the doom mongers are wrong.
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Mark:
I hope I'm wrong too. I would love to be able to purchase High Definition Optical Media as I have DVD over the past years.
Unfortunately the outlook isn't as rosy.
Cheers,
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John,
Can you point to any press releases or articles which suggest that HD is failing? I am not aware of any and so take all comments as speculation. For my part, the birth of the formats can be as painful and protacted as it needs to be just as long as a format survives... I therefore remain optimistic that HD will survive and continue to buy and enjoy the films.
Mark
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Save the cheerleader save the world.
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OK, you got me, what does that mean?
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Since so many homes now have 1080i or better I think HD DVD or Blu-Ray could stay.
Joe (Win Pack) will see a difference and movies are already near the price of DVD's.
Joe SixPack or WinPack never heard the difference or system to hear the advantages of DVD-A or SACD. But they even know it's much more fun watching a movie on a 60" 1080i screen (even a cheap one) than an iPod and the difference is very real. And very close to the same price as DVD.
BlockBuster and NetFlix will also help huge. I would not even consider it unless they were on board and they are. They really have to, to survive the HD age.
I never saw SACD and DVD-A in BestBuy and a-like. They didn't even know what it was.
But every modest gagetier knows about HD-DVD or Blu-ray. Seems like a lot more hype for Blu-Ray even though there are less titles. I think we will see $200.00 blu-ray players by next xmas.
- Fiddler (IMHO)
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I hope your right George! I'm still on the wait and see since my projector can not get the most out of 1080p and upscaling my 598 looks damn good with DVD's. I'll eventually get one but not now. I want one format to win or a combination player to come out first.
Hey I purchased plenty of DVD-A's at my Best Buy! There were plenty of SACD's too! I haven't checked in a while though. I don't think there are any now but I might be wrong.
Ron
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I hope so too George; One factor in our favor is there is a lot of money involved; maybe this will be enough to move things forward... shortly, the studios will be the determining factor as the hardware matures next year....
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Once I saw that PS3 screwed up on 1080i, I decided to definitely go with HD-DVD
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Mark,
It's a reference to the show "Heroes" here on NBC. I'd assume Sky or C4 have signed it up for the UK. Great show!
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