The reason for this is that when Hunt, a well known name in the "field" finally officially throws his support behind BD, it will carry less weight if it seems like he has been "backing" or "behind" Blu-Ray all along.

Personally, while I do think you go a bit over the top some times (much love) your "transformation" is very telling. It is something, if you are representative of early adopters who were solidly behind Sony, that Sony should be very wary of.

As someone early to this party, I will say that DFNYC was an EXTREMELY vocal BR supporter. He's definitely not a fence sitter.

No prob on that question lol They will choose HD-DVD. Neither format has all studios behind them so the average consumer if they choose to buy at all will buy the cheapest format if they have identical PQ. That is a fact which no one can argue.

There could a number of reasons for those numbers including price and availability, but here are some interesting bits of info that may affect those numbers:

OPPO -> Cheapest and In Stock
Toshiba -> Out of Stock
Samsung -> Available only through third party, but not directly from Amazon.com
Sony -> Most Expensive and Not yet available

Enh.

I "became" gay just as Will and Grace came out though. I could just be going with what's cool. What do I know?

Mr. Cinema...to answer your question...
as someone who worked at Circuit City, they're going to sell whichever gets them a higher commission. I know for CC there were codes on the actual sales slip where you took the 3rd, 5th and 7th #'s (or something like that) and it told you how much money you'd make off of it. Sales people will steer the person towards whichever one will get them more money.

I also sold a shitload of DIVX players in my time because I knew how to sell it. I knew how to get around it's shortcomings. I guess the biggest difference is that the DIVX players weren't $1000. Even *I* couldn't sell that shit.

On the other hand, though, if they had to be honest and explain which is better as a format and as a medium itself... Well, at least they could say that Blu-Ray has a larger capacity. That wouldn't be lying.

If you are talking about the format for movies alone (which I know you are, but there are also other applications), most should agree.

Even if BR loses the format war for movies, I doubt the technology goes away. The applications toward computer use are going to be killer apps. That kind of storage (50GB) on optical media (something HD-DVD cannot match) is going to be very attractive to many people (myself included).

I consider myself fairly neutral, but I'm excited about the possibility of BR writable computer drives. On the movie front, I was probably initially a BR suporter, but that has died down considerably in the last 6 months. Once the whole 360/HD-DVDp gets settled, I'll pick up a HD-DVDp of some sort.

Sorry, you lose. See Godwin's Law. This thread must be closed now:

It has taken me a little while to get used to.