if you guys go non-hybrid blu-ray or hd-dvd.... you guys may be looking at laserdisc/sacd type sales

dvds are less than 10 years old.... make sure you allow the marketplace to
trickledown before you go whomping up some new shit.

my advice? go hybrid blu-ray/dvd or hybrid hd-dvd/dvd... otherwise? your
hype will waste a lot of your money that you have to charge back to the
consumer.... doing the hybrid is a failsafe method... one that means when
someone picks up a dvd for their family... it plays in their player... no
matter what.

cheers!
Doc

 

50 gigabytes sounds great. When does it become a viable backup?

 

I was thinking that as of now Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will only be a niche
regional market mostly for North America or Japan (Note for Blu-Ray,
Japan
and North America are the same region) until the rest of the world
catches
on to hi-def. For example, Europe has gone digital, but they are
sticking
with 480p for the most part (SD). There's only one major satellite
channel
there in hi-def, the Belgian-based Euro1080. BBC is mainly producing
hi-def
programs for worldwide export so far.

So is it doomed to fail? Plus this, you'd better have HDMI or we
down-convert stuff bothers me. This would render my dad's older analog
CRT
hi-def Philips set useless.

We should have DVD Audio and/or SACD as default right now. The major
fact
that most standard *DVD* players will not play DVD Audio is absolutely
absurd to me right now.

Larry