OE isn't letting me append this to the thread:


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote


there were a number of factors that went into the early
demise of the DVDA and SACDs:


They were
greedily/discouragingly priced to start with;

Not that much more than CDs, if memory serves.


Prices like 19.95 and maybe even 24.95 seem to ring a bell.




they needed an expensive player;

Player prices came way down to well under $200. I even own one. Still no
joy in the marketplace.


I bought a 600 quid Sony for less than 200 quid 'pre-owned' and the bloody
thing wouldn't play rips!




they didn't sound *that much* better
(if at all) on 'hifi' equipment

Unless they were remastered and ended up sounding better than the
predecessor CDs.

and almost certainly
wouldn't have done on 'domestic' (electrical hardware
shop) kit

There was precious little if any of that would play a SACD or DVD-A.


Yes, you're right. I suppose the point is that Joe Snot mainly had 'hardware
store' equipment in the first place which, as you point out, vertainly
wouldn't play the hi-res disks.



See my former comments about relying on store staff for anything but
taking your money...


True of most places these days.



and HD TV will only succeed because it is Hobson's
Choice

Boy, HDTV must really be *bad* in the UK.

No idea, but you can't buy anything but 'HD Ready' TVs in
this country. (Correct me if I'm wrong here!)

You do have HD broadcast TV working by now, eh?


Yes, but I have never seen it.



Actually, Netflix is nicking me for an extra buck or so a month to get
BluRay discs.


OK. You happy about that? LoveFilm (Amazon) doesn't charge a premium.



and BD players are dropping fast in price.

Roger that! For about $130 you can get a Blu Ray player that is wonderful
for CDs, DVDs, Blu Ray, internet, and even downloads off of your PC.


Yes, 80 quid and up in the UK I'm told!



I predict they will kill the ordinary DVD off if the
Internet doesn't do it first

The problem with the internet lacks the capacity for widespread HD video
downloading. Most of Netflix's downloadable catalog is SD and not their
best movies, only a tiny subset of their entire catalog. Yet, their
downloads are
20% of the total US Internet traffic. To much more of that, and the
whole
sand castle comes tumbling down.


Good point.