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Originally Posted by Hunter844 /forum/post/12874948
I'm not surprised that there aren't any "firesales" as I expect the OP was suggesting. They don't want to incite panic that the end is in fact here and lose the rest of their studio support. I'll be waiting for the Jack Ryan Collection to come out and keep my eyes open for titles that I want in the mean time.
IMO, the only way HD-DVD even attempts to really get back into this is to go for $20 new releases like the DVD's are set at. On the other hand I'm not totally sure how a price point is established, but I'd think the studios have a hand in how much a new release would cost. Would the studios go for something like that? To me there doesn't seem like too much incentive for the HD-DVD studios to cut their own throats in order to sale more HD-DVD's at a lower profit point...they'll just switch over.
My fear is that we will see more combo titles to give the end-user more confidence that there's a "fall back" plan of sorts. I'm not a big fan of combo's like many on here, mainly because you can't touch either side of the disk and god forbid you blemish the HD-DVD side.
$20 retail would not do it. I won't say it wouldn't do anything, but it wouldn't draw any new people into the format.
$20 movies, $150 players....none of this does a thing to put a dent in the growing public perception that blu-ray is the winning format. Sad but true.
What reason do people who haven't bought into either format at this point have to opt for HD DVD?
If they haven't bit yet, odds are they're happy with DVD, and would only be "excited" by what's coming out in the future, not particularly caring about who has the best catalog titles they already own on DVD.
Blu-ray continues to impress. HD DVD has next to nothing. Beowulf should sell half decent. I don't know if Bee movie tanked in the theater, I certainly had no interest in it.
But for every 1 HD DVD exclusive that comes out, blu-ray will give you a dozen.
I love and own both formats, but HD DVD doesn't have a plan or a clue. They had opportunities to make bold moves before Warner defected, but chose not to do so. Who knows what they're doing now.