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Posted by Doug Jacobs on 02/12/07 19:24
In alt.video.dvd Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote:
> IMO HD-DVD has a better chance. I went to a local Best Buy and what
> do I see? 2 section of shelves to HD-DVD and maybe 8 or 9 blu-ray
> dvd. Plus almost no one has seen a blue-ray player.
The local Best Buy near me had about equal quantities of HD-DVD and
Blu-Ray on shelves. Best Buy also had both HD players running somewhere
in their store. Other stores, like Frys, only had Blu-Ray players running
even though they had HD-DVD players for sale.
> It's just like VHS vs BETA. Sony released BETA but it was poorly
> supported and died. If Sony doesn't work hard to push Blue-ray, it
> will become another BETA.
It's not quite VHS/Beta. At least Beta had some clear advantages over
VHS. Beta may have lost the consumer market, but because of its superior
picture and the fact it didn't "degrade" like VHS did, it was still used
in professional situations for many years.
Blu-ray/HD-DVD is more like DVD-R/+R. Two standards that are
incompatible, yet do the exact same thing with the exact same physical
media. Neither -R or +R have any advantages over the other, and neither
was really accepted until combo units started to appear.
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