People who can afford a $99.00 player will freak on the price of HD-DVD movies (Blu-ray too). They won't be renting from Blockbuster on the corner, maybe online, or from Netflix. Good luck Toshiba!
I don't think so. Walmart has first run standard DVDs for $20 or more. A couple of extra bucks won't cause "freaking". This evening, the HD-DVD of Flags of Our Fathers was only $3 more than the DVD package.
The ones who do will freak will be the $5 to $7 buyers, but alot of those movies will be too low volume to even show up on HD for a couple of years.
When they find out they HD players make even the SD disks look better and they can continue to look in the bargain bin, the freakage will probably go down quite a bit.
The CD buyers, on the other hand, when they buy BluRay, are of course, FUBAR.
