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In Reply to: Your USA sales of Ayre DVD players have gone down to one pr month posted by Ole Lund Christensen on February 11, 2007 at 12:04:48:
<< People naturally hesitate to buy expensive DVD players, until they know what will happen with the new formats. >>No kidding.
Good thing that we make other products besides expensive DVD players. That way we won't go out of business.
Change the word "DVD" in your sentence to "CD" and turn back the clock 10 years. Then look what happened to Wadia who only made expensive CD players. Unlike Theta, who diversified with a full line of other products, Wadia fell upon very tough times trying to sell CD players in a time of great uncertainty.
As soon as the new formats were announced years ago, we knew that the sales of our DVD players would drop off significantly. But we don't care. We're not going to stop making them, because they still offer the best performance you can buy, assuming you are interested in more than 150 of the latest crappy titles from Hollywood.
Someday, when it makes sense to do so, we might even make a high-def video player. Just like we did with SACD and DVD-A. (Unlike Gamut, who never did get around to it, despite all your claims on this forum that such a player was imminent.)
<< So I can well understand, that you do not like the new formats. But attacking me (the messenger) does not help you. >>
Whether I like a format or not has very, very little to do with whether or not it will succeed in the marketplace. And that is what I am looking at. The last thing Ayre will do is bring out some new "fad" product that will be orphaned, leaving the owner holding the bag.
And I am not "attacking the messenger". I am simply pointing out the facts. And the facts so far are that we have two more failed formats. Saying that Blu-Ray is winning over HD-DVD is just plain silly. Kind of like saying that DVD-A is winning over SACD. Or that Columbia's SQ quadraphonic system is winning over JVC's quadraphonic system. At this point, it's all pretty irrelevant, don't you think?
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