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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3978852" data-attributes="member: 7883">I agree.....all Disney, Warner etc. have done by becoming exclusive is ensure that I stop paying for their products, as a consumer who possibly chose the wrong side.It doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy the other technology, because as others have said (and as I've said) there's no guarantee that Blu-Ray will win either.  Maybe Blu-Ray beats HDDVD, and then Blu-Ray gets crushed by something else in another year.There are different ways to look at it.  Are the majority of people refraining from buying *because* there's a format war?  Because the both new technologies are expensive?  I don't know.  I suspect it's a little of both A and B.  Personally, I'd intended to stay out of it until there was a clear winner, and only got in when there were deals offered for the XBox player, since I already have the 360.  But at the store I got sold into a stand alone player that was a little more expensive.  But I hadn't *intended* to buy until this war was resolved.  Oh well, guess I was sucked in by all the demos I was seeing at the stores.  They do look nice though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I did convince 3 other people to buy HDDVD players, once they saw mine though....mainly with Boxing Day sales etc.You're probably right about the companies paying studios to get on side.  I'd prefer there were no exclusives, and you just had the ability to buy content for whichever of the two you want.As to XBox, and whether it'll be hurt, it's interesting to see some of the announcements coming out regarding the XBox getting access to digital movie content from Disney and MGM, and streaming IPTV in Britain (with PVR type features, I think).  Maybe Microsoft is going to push against Sony through these other avenues?  Of course, these are big deals, so I doubt any of them are in response to Friday's announcement.Banshee</blockquote>

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