[NefCanuck]

darkpuppet,Oct 12 2006, 10:45 AM Wrote:I watched DVDs solely from my PS2 for the longest time.. before I got a HT in a box.. and even then, the system won't play all DVDs flawlessly, so occasionally, I'm forced to put them in the PS2 for playback (doesn't pay to be a cheapass I guess)...

However, things are a bit different these days.  Lowest cost isn't the prime motivator it once used to be in customer's buying decisions.  Sure, it's important, but people, especially the ones with the disposable income to buy into the 1st round of next gen hardware are a lot more informed and willing to pay to play.
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Hrm, then you must have gotten a decent PS2 unit because many of the people I spoke to who were early adaptors and used the PS2 for movies on a regular basis (at least one movie a night in addition to game playing) found their read laser dead after about a year.

I'm surprised that you say that price isn't as big a factor as it once was to the adaptation of new technology. I mean sure the people with the disposable income might be more willing to jump, but Mr. & Mrs. Consumer look at their large collection of DVD's and then at the two new formats that offer nothing to them unless they've already dropped serious coin on a new HDTV and go "I dinnae think so laddie <_< "

Until and unless the new formats can offer something unique to the format (eg: recording large amounts of TV, say 12+ hrs) the new formats will go nowhere in the general conciousness IMO.

NefCanuck