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It's all moot point
This is all short term irrelevancy.

Downloadable content will make this all obsolete, long before HDDVD and Blue Ray make nice.

By the time they resolve these compatibility issues, on-demand/IPTV/downloadable movies will be the preferred method for getting your high definition movie.

In fact, this could be Microsoft's entire reason for being in the DVD standards war since they could give a rat?s arse about hardware sales of DVD players as far as I can tell. Microsoft would much rather have you download your movie to a media center/Xbox. They probably make more profit on one movie than they do on a HD-DVD player for the Xbox.
Posted by: indoctrin8ed   Posted on: 01/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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...but they were blinded by the $$$ signs in their eyes  jinko | 01/08/07
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A- Men Brother  rgforr@... | 01/05/07
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One Consumer's View  cef1000@... | 01/05/07
Another consumers view  Hameiri | 01/08/07
geeeee, imagine that!  dr_who@... | 01/05/07
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So the price of the player just went up $300???  jinko | 01/08/07
But which movies come out on each format.  Tigertank | 01/05/07
Microsoft is sucking your money and their warez sucks!  nomorems | 01/05/07
If you say  Boot_Agnostic | 01/07/07
It's all moot point  indoctrin8ed | 01/08/07
Not quite moot  Endoscopy | 01/08/07
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Next Gen DVD  PJBski | 01/08/07
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Bragging rights for techies only.  tigerpc@... | 01/09/07
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You must still be using VHS then?  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
Correct  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
you're a waste of skin  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
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