Sid Burn wrote:Not going to dignify your flamebait but if you think that Sony having 6 of the 8 big hollywood studios behind it while HDdud only has 2 isnts the nail in the coffin, I cant help you.
if you choose to own a HD-DVD player instead of a Blu-ray player, you won't be able to play high definition movies from Disney (Buena Vista), Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, Sony, Warner and New Line which have all decided to support Blu-ray exclusively. With the majority of the movie studios supporting Blu-ray, the massive support from consumer electronics companies, the fact that PlayStation 3 features a Blu-ray Disc drive... well you can see the writing on the wall.
Hollywood may not bring us the the best content all the time, but they bring in the biggest money, and in the end, money decides format wars.
Universal and Paramount are the only studios still waving the HDDVD flag, but with Warner going Blu, my prediction is the same as Bay's, HDdud will die.
I am glad hollywood actually picked the better format this time.
You might not see the use of a larger capacity disc now, but in time the benefit will be obvious.
Abilor wrote: blu-ray is technically better yadda yadda, that's beside the point for me...
Sid Burn wrote:The first DVDs didnt come close to filling a full disc yet this "improved" format is already near the brim? That is not the format I want to spend money on.
If the most compelling argument againt Blu is region encoded discs...get over it, dvds are region encoded, and there are ways around it. Sony has to please the creatives and the consumers, take it from someone who works in a creative industry, intellectual property is as fragile as it is precious. Region encoding, and even DRM is attractive to creators, as it helps to ensure they are not taken advantage of.
Auto Bot wrote:One thing to like about HD DVD is the absence of regional coding. For now.
I don't see that happening. If it did, it wouldn't suprise me if studios start jumping ship back to HD-DVD. I mean, the individual studios don't make players, & if the players cost so much nobody wants the movies, they would stand to lose money.Auto Bot wrote:It's actually a good thing there's an HD-DVD vs Bly-Ray war going on. Whoever loses out, will drop its price drastically. Benefiting the consumers.
Imagine if only either one of them is developed, with no rivals. You'd see prices of player beyond &1000. It wouldn't be hard to imagine it climbing to the $5000 range. And they'd hang on to the prices for a pretty long time.
Auto Bot wrote:It's actually a good thing there's an HD-DVD vs Bly-Ray war going on. Whoever loses out, will drop its price drastically. Benefiting the consumers.
Imagine if only either one of them is developed, with no rivals. You'd see prices of player beyond &1000. It wouldn't be hard to imagine it climbing to the $5000 range. And they'd hang on to the prices for a pretty long time.
Auto Bot wrote:That was because they made 4 different confusing formats (was it 4?) out of DVD, and each collection of companies supporting their respective format, have to fight it out. In effect, they created their own rivalry upon themselves.
Dumb. But did benefit the consumers.
Later on, when Chinese factories started churning out nameless multi-format drives, which worked better than those big names, they all have to drop the format war, and jumped into the multi-format bandwagon.
So by the time DVD became uniform, prices were already rock-bottom.
Now this scenario can't happen with high-density drives yet. Not until Chinese companies started to acquire the abilities to manufacture them without the throat-cutting royalties.
For now, we have to depend solely on the rivalry to expect falling prices. Especially so when one of them started to get the upper hand.
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