Re: Seeing trouble in HD.
- From: "Bratboy" <DontBother@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:54:02 -0600
"Rich Clark" <rdclark2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Allan wrote:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-ed-hddvd10apr10,1,7088547.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
"IF THEY WANT A GLIMPSE OF THEIR own future, Hollywood executives
should take a peek at the latest year-end report from the Recording
Industry Assn. of America. It's not a pretty picture. There, amid the
statistics about declining CD sales and booming music downloads, are
the grim numbers for the higher-fidelity formats once billed as the
music industry's Next Big Thing. Their sluggish performance suggests
what could happen to the two competing high-definition video formats
that Hollywood will soon try to sell, HD-DVD and Blu-ray."
The key word there is "competing." It's hard to say what would have
happened if the entire music industry had gotten behind SACD and pushed
real hard.
When the industry itself can't pick one format and market it by clearly
outlining its benefits, consumers can't be expected to do better.
VHS/Beta is not a useful precedent, because the whole technology was
new to consumers - there was no earlier home video recording tech to be
replaced. Today, with people already satisfied with CDs, MP3s, DVDs,
and cable/satellite, a format war is the best way I can think of to
stall adoption of any of it.
RichC
Im not gonna worry bout jumping to HD DVD yet myself. Someone in another
thread made a big deal out of "you could even make out the sweat gland on
sonso's face in HD". While I like detail comments like that don't impress
me. SD(prefeerably Animorphic) looks fantastic on my WS HDTV so at least
untill everything shakes out I'm just gonna avoid HD DVD for a while. Maybe
by next xmas the studio's will have pulled their collective heads out of
their behinds and settle on one format etc.
.
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