techguy
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(Jan 24, 2006 - 8:21 PM)
Seascape you are right. I don't think hardware is an issue. Make a multiformat player. Maybe the tier-one manufacturers will be stubborn at first but that's where the chinese manufacturers will take over with the cheap stuff. It's all digital at this point so the cheap players should do a pretty good job.
I don't think different formats are a real big deal in this day and age.
I'm sure there'll be an HDTV files standard for the computer and all kinds of software to manipulate the files so I'm not too worried.
Bill Gates put it well when he said "this is probably the last physical format we'll see" And I believe that.
I think there will be an HDTV frenzy in a couple of years. Not too long to wait.
At least that's my take on all this.