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Originally Posted by nfotiu
It is not over until blu ray standalone players start selling. Until then, it is just a format that plays on a gaming system, and that is too much of a niche to be significant. I bought an hd dvd player a year ago, but I'm not married to the format. I only rent movies, so not a lot invested. HD DVD players just dipped below the $200 barrier in the US, and their great dvd up-scalers. They may start to fly off the shelves when people are picking them up instead of upscaler sd dvd players. Why not.
It is a silly format war anyway. Both are perfectly capable of putting an artifact free 1080p picture and lossless multichannel audio on a 5 inch disk. Any technical difference between the two won't affect sound or picture quality on even the most outrageously expensive equipment available today.
Who knows, online distribution will probably beat out both formats. The ftth internet I just switched to (like many others around here) is more than capable of delivering fully quality hdtv.
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I'll order one for 200 bucks....link?