To whom it may concern,
I'm the new owner of the Toshiba HD DVD player. I currently own almost 400 DVD's and spend lots of my disposable income on home entertainment. I believe the HD DVD platform to be as good as or better than its competition Blu-Ray at half the cost. As a consumer I would urge Fox Home Entertainment to support the new HD DVD format. It's were I plan on spending my money.
Thank you,
Scott Klump
It now appears that HD-DVD offers better encoding and picture quality than current Blu-Ray, and at half the price to consumers. This leaves buyers with $500 extra with which to buy software, i.e. your movies!
HD DVD is incredible! I refuse to pay twice as much for a Blu-Ray player with equal or worse (w/MPEG2) PQ, as well as fewer features (no ethernet jack, no audio CD playback, etc). Which do you think the regular consumer would be more likely to purchase??
I would like to see both formats do well.I see no reason why a company would be willing to pass up making money..and offering the consumers what they want.
I would just like to state the obvious points:
HD-DVD is AVAILABLE
HD-DVD is being supported by early adopters
Early adopters drive a lot of business for new formats visa vie word-of-mouth
HD-DVD players are sold at a mass-market pricepoint
HD-"DVD" is more recognized by the general public
Don't alienate early adopters like Electronic Arts. You seen their fiscals lately?
Ignoring the HD-DVD market does not make business sense. Remember -- Sony has a long history of trying to implement unpopular proprietary systems (ATRAC, anyone? How about Beta?) that fail, and drag their supporters down with them; the future is open and multi-standard, not closed and monopolistic.
Please please, support HD-DVD. All political verbage aside, just please support HD-DVD.
I will NOT be buying Blu-ray but I would love to buy Fox's movies.