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Originally Posted by crazyal
I know of nobody who can say they got burned by HD DVD or Toshiba other than those who turned it into a personal fight. People like the Blu-Bots who say things like that to rub it in and anti Blu people who felt Toshiba owed them and should have run the company into the ground trying to keep the format going.
As an EA you take the risk. I would like either group to show me where Toshiba made a written promise to keep the format going or even twisted anyone's hand into buying a player. The only thing that sucks is that BD doesn't have HD DVD to keep it honest. Here it is a year later and I have yet to hear of a BF sale with a sub $100 BD player with an equal brand name to Toshiba.
Personally I have won, not lost, with HD DVD. I own about 4 times the number of titles I would normally have. It's starting to equal my DVD collection. We would never have seen HDM for under $5 if Toshiba hadn't pulled the plug.
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Anyone who only paid $99.00 for a HD DVD player did not get burnt IMO. They got a player that is arguably better than any SD DVD player for that price and got to buy very cheap HD movies for it along with excellent SD DVD playback.
People who paid $300-500.00 for a HD DVD player got burnt though I think but that is the price to pay for being an Early Adopter like you said. Other than Toshiba making some very dumb decisions, I do not blame Toshiba though. It is what it is.