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Here we go again. Some mother-uckers are always trying to ice skate up hill.
I'll save a second shout to shut down the argument as to which is a superior format. For now, we'll talk Universal.
Universal has a great strategy in delaying the format war. The longer the market lacks a definitive 'winner', the more prices will HAVE to fall on HD players. Discs will remain roughly the same price for now, so seeing as Universal does not make Hardware, they will simply dive like Scrouge McDuck into a vault of gold coins once Toshiba slashes their prices for Christmas, yet again. They've put the market entrance barrier on Toshiba's shoulders - who have already proven willing to steadily drop prices in favor of the consumer - if Toshiba loses coin, its no sweat off Universal's massive back. All it means is there will be more players and more people to buy Universal HD discs, which are a great library exclusive to HD DVD and make up the majority of discs sold.
It's a brilliant strategy and I guarantee it'll pay off in both the short and long run. IF HD, and I stress IF, loses it is absolutely no problem for them to jump to Blu-Ray as well - they've already got the masters made. IF, however, HD wins, Universal already is the dominating manufacturer and will just make even more money.
Either way, it doesn't matter who wins or loses - they are the ONLY company that, as of right now, stands guaranteed to make a huge profit on sales out of this whole debacle.