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Yes, I agree. It was mainly the convenience of a digital disc over tape and vinyl as opposed to "quality" which ultimately convinced average consumers. In the case of vinyl, though, I suppose people felt the audio quality was an improvement in the sense of "no scratchiness and pops"... although...

While I'm inclined to agree with you, I have to play Devil's Advocate for a moment here to remind you that this was the exact same argument I heard against music CDs ("too many record and turntable owners") and SD ("too many VCR and VHS owners"), but then SD and CD did, in fact, take over.

It is a problem deciding what to purchase. I've also been resisting the recent new versions of Kubrick SD's like 2001 and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE... if BD does become the main format, why bother? I had the same dilemma recently when I tried to decide if I should get all the James Bond films in the...

While I am pleased that it finally sounds like the format war may indeed be on the road to its conclusion (it was always idiotic to have two competing HD formats) I am in no hurry. I've predicted from the very start of this, a year and a half ago or whenever it was, that the only way any HD...