Hehe. I'm happy to see this. A more intense format war is better for the people who do not run out and buy the latest and greatest. Price wars will continue longer, and we'll see better players for cheaper even faster.

This post has been edited by ikanayam: Aug 23 2007, 01:57 PM

The split doesn't matter in the long term. Either the formats will reach a stalemate, and it will become like the DVD+ and DVD- specifications, or one will die off. But fierce competition is good, especially now since the price of the stuff is still out of reach of most people. The average person won't bother either way until things get cheaper all round, because they don't even have high-def displays yet. Ultimately consumers don't even care about the number of formats out there, as long as things are cheap enough and compatible with each other, just like what happened with the DVD formats.