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Re: Experts/Polls: Toshiba's HD-DVD dead in the water. Blu-ray will win.

Posted by GMAN on 04/10/06 01:35

In article <ea9ff$44346bd5$483198a5$21404@FUSE.NET>, "bobukcat" <bobukcat@killspam.fuse.net> wrote:
>
>"Richard" <rfeirste@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:1237jina8eg7pc8@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>> I have informally talked to people as well. They note Sony lost betamax
>> because it did not license it out.
>>
>> Sony licensed Beta to Zenith. VHS was licensed to RCA. At the time Sony
>> priced its units very high and Zenith was starting its decline as a force
>in
>> the retail market. RCA was a much stronger distributor offering dealer
>> incentives, etc. Sony did a poor job promoting Beta's advantages, smaller
>> case size designed to fit on a book shelf, standard 720 tapes holding more
>> than 120 tapes at Beta II speed, superior mechanical design and superior
>> video quality.
>>
>> Poor marketing and higher prices when thrown against a far more aggressive
>> marketing force that understood our market is what did Beta in. This may
>not
>> be the case with blu-ray.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>I personally believe that Sony lost the video cassette war because of the
>longer available recording time that VHS provided with a long tape and the
>slowest speed (8 hours versus 6 for Beta if IIRC). People didn't seem to
>compare and notice that it looked like CRAP compared to Beta at ANY speed!
>Part of me wants at least one of the HD optical disk formats to win (if I
>were a betting man I'd go with Blu-Ray because of PS3) so that prices will
>drop and titles will become readily available for rent and purchase. I must
>admit that I would not be surprised though if both formats croaked kind of
>like DVD-audio or SCD, people are not yet ready to pitch their DVD
>collections like they were VHS tapes because too many people still don't
>have the HD TV to take advantage of it.
>
>bobukcat
>
>
You dont have to pitch anything, DVD's will play back just fine on blu ray
players and many of the Blu Ray players will upconvert DVD's like some of the
current DVD players now do to 1080i

 

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