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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3986353" data-attributes="member: 7883">You're right....the total numbers *are* important.....but they're related to percentages, and all that can change in time.  My understanding is that towards the end of 2007, there was more Blu-Ray, but HDDVD was growing faster.  Obviously, if that's the case, eventually it'll overtake Blu-Ray, if the growth rates remained the same.It's all moot though.  HDDVD won't grow if movie producers stop releasing for it.  I have been somewhat relieved to see that Paramount/Dreamworks don't seem quite so hot to change as rumours would have it.  And Microsoft isn't jumping ship...in fact, they've released a statement which calls into doubt the whole idea that they're going to give up, and make a Blu-Ray player for the XBox.I was really aggravated by all of this earlier this week, but I've been thinking about it, and well, I can't return my player, because i'm past the 30 days.  For $260, I got my player, and 9 free movies.  Even at $20/movie, that means I just bought 9 movies, and a player for $80.  Several of those movies are ones I wanted anyways.  And most importantly, many of the HDDVD discs I have (and many I still want) are dual format.  So if HDDVD folded tomorrow, and someone came and took my player away, I just flip the disc over, and play it in my regular DVD player.  So there's really no reason not to continue to support the format, until there's a definitive decision.And I remain convinced that Blu-Ray isn't ready for consumption by the public yet, because they're not necessarily ensuring that their systems are backwards compatible etc.....like with the 1.1 standard upgrade being incompatible with discs produced before the 1.1 standard came out.  I'd rather not pay for them to do their product development.  I'll wait until they're done before I buy into Blu-Ray.Banshee</blockquote>

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