ppltd
Senior HTF Member
With the initial estimates in, and Sony again missing their release numbers, will the Studio support for BD begin to errode. With Sony's production delay after delay, and the unlikelkhood that they will be able to get even 1/2 million boxes out this year, the shot in the arm that BD supporters were expecting has at best been muted.
Add to this the unexpected popularity of the HD-Add-on for the 360 (analysts state 100,000 add-on's have been shipped by MS in their initial allotment), and it looks like the format war is even further away from a solution.
Where does this leave us as early adopters? In a worse place than we were before. With no knock out blow from the BD camp (which I was expecting), consumer confusion will continue, and the likelyhood of consumer support for one format or the other has been pushed off into the distant future.
Add to this the unexpected popularity of the HD-Add-on for the 360 (analysts state 100,000 add-on's have been shipped by MS in their initial allotment), and it looks like the format war is even further away from a solution.
Where does this leave us as early adopters? In a worse place than we were before. With no knock out blow from the BD camp (which I was expecting), consumer confusion will continue, and the likelyhood of consumer support for one format or the other has been pushed off into the distant future.