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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
A DF player only guarantees the war goes on. The only thing a DF player does is combine the two formats into one player. You can buy 2 players now and have essentially the same thing - consumer is format neutral.
It's like WB's THD - it wont change a studio going from exclusive to neutral unless they want to. If Disney adopted the THD then they would no longer be exclusive BRD.
The sides are set at this time. A DF player is a convience factor for the consumer - nothing more, 1 player instead of 2 - one hookup instead of two.
As long as the software remains 70/30 - it is a war. If it went to 50/50 - different story. . . stalemate
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Well IMO if the DF players do become the normal HDD delivery system, then there is absolutely no incentive for
any of the studios to either go, or stay, format neutral. Why produce discs in 3-4 formats for each movie? After all, the customer is format neutral.... right? In this regard it could prolong the war
or make it completely irrelevant.
