So let me get this straight, Microsoft apparently paid $150 million for to Paramount to drop BluRay and only support HD DVD, and these HD discs are selling only a couple of million in the US a year?
Even if we say 5 million discs it's still $30 a disc in subsidy!!! WTF!
And as for this: "That may change: the arrival of a cut-price HD DVD player in Europe, and ".
So a small unfamiliar importer of HDDVD players is able to undercut all other HD DVD manufacturers on price, even the really huge makers with their own automated production lines? Gee, I wonder how they are able to do that? You don't suppose Microsoft has been swishing money around there too.
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So $150 million for 2 million sales?
So let me get this straight, Microsoft apparently paid $150 million for to Paramount to drop BluRay and only support HD DVD, and these HD discs are selling only a couple of million in the US a year?
Even if we say 5 million discs it's still $30 a disc in subsidy!!! WTF!
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17032
Wow, now that's desparation!
And as for this: "That may change: the arrival of a cut-price HD DVD player in Europe, and ".
So a small unfamiliar importer of HDDVD players is able to undercut all other HD DVD manufacturers on price, even the really huge makers with their own automated production lines? Gee, I wonder how they are able to do that? You don't suppose Microsoft has been swishing money around there too.