Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
+/- war had nothing to do with the commercial video market but the smaller pc dvd burning market, theres less to gain and far far less of a difference in the media to begin with.
its not comparable at all.
combo players will just add to the uncertainty until a winner emerges.
combo players won't be able to compete with the cost of a cheap single format player, esp when you see how fast hddvd prices are dropping.
I don't understand this "uncertainty" you're talking about. If it's consumer uncertainty you're thinking, then take a look at your average Best Buy customer. They'll buy the copy of 300 with the pretty blue packaging and try to stick it in their dvd player at home. The combo player will play anything that the lowest common denominator will put in it.
Last time I looked, the studios were split down the middle with all the major ones taking a side except for Warner. If you think any of the studios are going to jump ship and head to the other side anytime soon, you're fooling yourself. By the time whatever secret contracts they signed comes up and they go to re-examine their profit margins, the hardware manufacturing costs will have dropped enough to make your cheap Apex type brand combo player affordable to the masses. Then it just won't matter anymore.
The +/- war was about hardware and software manufacturers fighting over a home dvd recordable format. There was no winner. The HD format war is about hardware and software (studios) manufacturers fighting over the next home video market. Seems pretty comparable to me when dvd, hd-dvd, and blu ray discs are all the same size and allows for alternate solutions versus the Beta/VHS argument.
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