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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 4063350" data-attributes="member: 7883">Well, if Toshiba is not producing the players anymore, it really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that companies will shift what they're selling.  Content that can't be played, because nobody's making the machines is kind of useless.I'm pretty sure that things aren't going to go nearly as smoothly as Sony would like though.  Aside from the problems with their players, and the perception by much of the public that regular DVDs on an upscaling player produce quality almost as good as Blu-Ray or HDDVD, you're not going to get people running to pick them up.In addition, we're either in, or going into a recession (well US is, Canada is teetering, but might not cross over), and during recessions people buy fewer luxury items (ie. high definition DVD players).  I'm pretty sure that that has a lot to do with the decrease in DVD business over the last year, which was one of the justifications Warner made in their announcement when they switched.  They might have partly misidentified *why* movie sales were going down.....or at least not given that situation enough credit.  I guess we'll see, given time.  I know plenty of people who are switching into "save, and pay off debt mode", and moving out of the "buy cool new stuff" mode.  If you're not sure about your job because people are getting laid off, are you going to withhold spending $400 on a player because you're not sure which format will be around in a year?  Or because you want to have that $400 in your savings, in case you lose your own job?Banshee</blockquote>

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