Personally I have no problem at all with the idea of 'HD' remaining a niche market like Laser Disc. I think that would insure that 'HD' does not get dumbed down to satisfy the masses. The most dreadful thought I have with HD going mainstream is that the studios might start releasing 'Fool...
Personally, it seems that HD-DVD is the one that needs the 'combo DVD/HD-DVD disks', 'Total HD disks' and 'Combo players' as crutches to survive and have a fighting chance. While Blu-Ray seems confident to do fine just on it's own. The fact that it is mostly the HD-DVD supporters that keep...
'Pointless' is exactly right. The cost of any decent combi player will probably be higher than or equal to the cost of individual players for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I just don't understand why people have such an aversion to having two seperate units. In fact having two seperate units is always...