who would feel more pain from a loss????

[Slartibartfast]

BD dying would affect Sony big time. The next gen console may have to go HD, and that would also hurt the 3 million people would bought it.

Toshi will be making millions from its DVD patents for years to come.

[rp108]

I feel if HD DVD were to die out and br would take over then I would have to get all I can on HD DVD and keep buying standard DVDs upscale them on my HD-XA2 until they are no longer available and then hopefully a new format is out and I still wont have to buy BR.

[Slartibartfast]

Right, just like they folded when Beta went under. That Sony and their short-sightedness... they should have invested in some other product that may sell... Like TVs... or LCDs... maybe some pro A/V gear or some other CE products. How about banking? I hear there is good money in that.

Yes, Sony, number one manufacture of hand held gaming systems. And everyone today has a Sony walkman and downloads songs form SonyMusic.

Sony should own the portable music market, via bad management they lost it.

The game system is nice, for 399 bucks, which is what a game system should cost.

Stop thinking the Sony that exists today is the same Sony that existed 20 years ago.

They have great engineers; MDisc was great. But their DRM crazyiness ruins it all.

/Sony Tech should SPLIT from Sony Entertainment and focus on tech

[Slartibartfast]

I feel if HD DVD were to die out and br would take over then I would have to get all I can on HD DVD and keep buying standard DVDs upscale them on my HD-XA2 until they are no longer available and then hopefully a new format is out and I still wont have to buy BR.

The XA2 is a great upscaler, on par with the oppo, so you'll get YEARS of joy out of it because SDVDs will own the market for years.

[wingnut]

Dual Format for the Win. I've covered my bases.

I'd prefer HD-DVD to win but if it doesn't, by that time there will be an affordable Dual format player that will play both my Hi Def libraries.

[Vriess]

Sony would be dead if blu ray fails.

Even if Sony never sold another ps3 or br disc they could probably walk away better than you think.

[dolphinius_rex]

in my opinion Blu-ray fans. if hd dvd lost i would just buy all the hd dvd that would start going on sale or are on closeout or people unloading their stash on e-bay or some thing and i would start looking for a good blu-ray player if not the ps3. why do i think blu-ray supporters would feel the loss more? because of all the advantages blu-ray has on paper over hd dvd. i mean with all the possibilities blu-ray has for it, to die and no one see what it can ultimately do, to me, is heart braking, if i was a blu-ray supporter. i have no bias toward either format and if i was a blu-ray supporter right now and it lost i would do the same thing as i would do if hd dvd lost, well with the sense off loss because i never got to see all that blu-ray could do.

It's true, my inner geek would cry