The world of high definition disk player is still having this insane dual format that are incompatible with each other. With one camp promoting HD-DVD and another with Blu-Ray, the consumer is in the middle of a tug-of-war game. Disney, in this case, while they have not ruled out releasing their movies in both format, has so far been fully entrenched in the Blu-Ray camp. They have released their biggest hits on Blu-Ray so far, including Cars and both Pirates.
Last time I wrote about this, a company called LG had just announced a combo Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player at this years Consumer Electronics show. This might be the one thing that would make this silly battle moot for the consumer. Now Samsung has followed suit by announcing a new combo player that will be released in time for this year's holiday season. No news on how much it will cost, though. If there are more of these combo player, maybe that will help to drive down the cost within a year or two.
If you are like me and already own at least one high-def TV, you'd know that the main shortcoming right now is not having a high-def DVD player and movies. We were one of the early adopters when DVD was released. But in the case of high-def DVD players, we have decided to not dive into it and choose one format over the other. The combo player will probably be the one we would buy if and when the price becomes reasonable. The lack of high-def DVD-writer for a "universal" format is also another why we haven't migrated to high-def camcorder. We have every intention to reshoot as many of the Disney videos that we currently have in high-def, but we're not going to start investing into it until there is a definite direction to where this format war is heading.
So, to both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps, I'd like to say that we don't need you, and we won't buy any of your product yet, until you guys sort this out.
Zz.
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