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(going out on a limb here...) - Has anything The Digital Bits posted in the past year or so about HD (BD/HD-DVD) influenced your buying or decision to support one format over another (or anyone you know)? If not, does it really matter what is written on TDB?

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Not initially you couldn't - Sony didn't actively license out the technology like JVC on day 1. It was their proprietary baby, and one they thought they'd dominate the market with. The first licensed Beta decks didn't start trickling out until nearly 5 years AFTER Sony began releasing Beta...

Pricing wasn't the main factor - it was the fact that if you wanted Beta, you bought Sony. Period. If you wanted VHS, you a plethora of manufacturers to choose from which drove prices down very quickly. Consumers want choice. Choice existed for VHS. The other factor with Beta that is often...

It all depends on the cut that Warner is getting - it's my understanding that Warner's take in HD-DVD is significantly smaller than it was on DVD (something Toshiba was never happy about). However, I do not have actual figures as to what it amounts to. So we can speculate all day long as to how...

One has nothing to do with the other. Warner holds patents. Even if they dropped HD-DVD tomorrow and went exclusively Blu-Ray, they will still collect royalties from the HD-DVD group for the patents they own, and as long as HD-DVD (whatever the patents they hold) are produced, they'll always be...