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Originally Posted by sigill
Indeed Toshiba where relying on the fact that super cheap player's would save the day for them but it didnt happen. No matter how low they sold there HD DVD players for , they didn't gain the momentum required to challenge BD sale's.
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I don't think that is exactly right.
I think Toshiba had Warner/Fox changing their support to HD DVD and so they calculated (wrong) that they would not have to lower prices so fast during the holidays. At the same time, the BD mfg were offering some players during a 2+ month holiday season for only $300.00, that quickly went back up (almost a month after the holidays
).
Toshiba could have kept the pressure on IMO but they chose not to do that, which tells me that HD DVD player prices would not have continued to drop as fast as they did in the past if they won either.
I do believe that IF Warner/Fox rolled, then Disney would not have been far behind also. That would have left Sony basically alone like they were with Beta only with software/movies instead of hardware.
To those who keep saying that BD one all those weeks in 2007, what would have happened IF all studios supported BOTH formats for the first year? Do you STILL think BD would have won those weeks with the higher prices for players?
Nearly everyone agrees that HD DVD being in the game and the format war bought prices for players down faster than they likely would have gone so be thankful the war existed.