Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
Did you notice how that prior story effected Toshiba and Sony stocks? I didn't even really consider that aspect of it.
Audiophiles rarely do.
they swim in a sea dominated by large corporations, what those corporations decide
quite often determines what will wind up on an audio enthusiasts shelf.
Even if you have a trendy handmade preamp with gold knobs, etc, the company that made it had to just about use off the shelf parts.
But how much effort do you have invested in keeping up with what they do?
Indeed HDDVD is now folding like a cheap lawn chair under hulk hogan, but this is just
the current incident in the long slow meltdown of HDDVD .
Anybody that keeps up knows that everybody in industry, electronics, computers,
hollywood, you name it, have declared their support for Blu-ray almost exclusively.
So much so that I imagine that the bloodbath Toshiba is facing has already been factored into their stock.
Thisd is why I try to keep up at least a little with the business side of this hobby,
and this is why I have championed Blu, BECAUSE TWO FORMATS ARE JUST CONFUSING THE AVERAGE JOE, and in the long term that hurts us videophiles
and audiophiles, because, like it or not, if theres no mass support for a format,
then its going to be really expensive, or nonexsistent.
We PQ freaks ride on a sea of mass market stuff, our stuff may be "better", but it derives from the parts used to make Joe sixpacks HTIB and his flat screen