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Originally Posted by vikingfan
That quote is referencing sales during the format war, your trying to make it fit too defend bruces position, is as farfetched as his original statement. During the format war people may have held off on purchasing a movie on dvd because they wanted an HD version, but were unsure of which format was going to succeed. To think that now that there is only one HD format, that it would be affecting dvd sales to an even greater degree is a huge stretch.
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How can you NOT think that people on the fence about buying BD now will not be buying SD DVDs now why they wait?
Have you been buying a lot of movies during a format transition? I have and I can tell you I went to almost exclusively renting VHS titles waiting to buy into SD DVD when I felt the time was right, and I did the same thing leading up to HDM also.
I have a bro-inlaw who use to buys 2-3 movies per week on SD DVD, and although he thinks he will wait another year to buy into BD he has gone to just renting. This is not hardly ANY stretch IMO, to think people who think BD may replace SD DVD to stop buying many SD DVD titles leading up to the change over to BD.
AFAIAC, this is a natural part of ANY format change over. Sorry if that isn't what YOU think is happening, but i bet a lot of other BD fans like my self are thinking this is likely happening. We just do not know what the number of people/sales involved are.