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Post #207621

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CO
Parent topic
Star Wars in High Definition: OT clips from "Science of Star Wars" in HD
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Date created
8-May-2006, 4:11 PM
The problem with High Defintion DVD's is right now there are two competing companies: HD-DVD & Blue Ray, and each carry certain movie studios. So the problem is if you want to re-buy your movies in HD, you have to buy two players. It is such a stupid way to start off a new format, by having a war like this, but it seems to happen everytime. VHS & Beta, and DVD & Divx went at it. Usually someones wins early on, but it is does is delay any mainstream fans from getting involved. I am taking a wait and see until one of the formats wins, I think it will probably be HD-DVD, cause they are sponsored by Warner Bros, and they always try to keep the prices lower on DVD's to get more of a mass market, rather than a niche market like Laserdisk.

Because of this, I don't see any SW movies, SE or O-OT or PT coming for a couple of years. Lucas held out on DVD until 2001, and that format was 4 years old by then. So it will probably be the super duper SE in 2010 or something.