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Posted by Andre Matuch on 01/17/07 12:49
asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
> I got a playstation 3 today, as well as Disney's Dinosaur and the game
> "Resistance", and BOY am I impressed....awesome images and the game was
> SCARY and like a movie almost....
>
> Nowadays, I look at logic and long trends, not superficial short term
> hype, and almost everything points to Blu-ray burying HD-DVD.
>
> Points:
>
> 1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD
>
> 2. Blu-ray discs are outselling HD-DVD discs right now by more than
> 3x... why? See next point:
>
> 3. Because of the playstation 3, there are several times more Blu-ray
> players than HD-DVD players in the market, so the potential customer
> base of blu-ray is already several times larger than HD-DVD (about 80%
> of playstation buyers say they will start purchasing blu-ray movies)!!!
>
> * plus, Blu-ray player/recorder manufacturers include HUGE companies
> like Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, etc, all of whom are much
> bigger than Toshiba (which produces HDD-DVD). You think these guys are
> gonna lose?
>
> 4. FIVE big movie studios are releasing ONLY in blu-ray, including
> DISNEY, SONY, and 20th Century Fox.
>
> Can you imagine anyone buying an HD-DVD player that will never play The
> Lion King, Toy Story, or any other Disney movie? What about Sony and
> Spiderman? or 20th century fox and Star Wars? Etc Etc.
>
> 5. There are now 200 GB blu-ray discs in research and 100 GB discs in
> commercial development...HD-DVD will not even come close to this.
>
>
> SO:
>
> The CONTENT advantage is in Blu-ray's side
> The STORAGE advantage is on Blu-ray's side
> The SIZE (manufacturers, number of proponents) advantage is on
> Blu-ray's side.
>
> Sure, an HD-DVD player is cheaper, but what the hell are you going to
> PLAY on it? It's just a big dead door stop without content. And with TV
> and other high-end appliances nowadays running into the high hundreds
> or thousands, getting a Blu-ray player AND game console for half a
> thousand just makes good sense....
>
> So, if toshiba runs out of money and gives up on HD-DVD what happens to
> all the people who bought HD-DVD? ;-
The only problem is that Universal is responsible for the best movies
available to the world so without IT, Blu-Ray has mostly just trash
movies available.
Andre
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