Posted by blue on 06/25/06 21:45

asj wrote:
> Blu-ray will win because:
>
> 1. There are a lot more studios behind it. HD-DVD will NOT have Disney,
> Sony, MGM, Lionsgate and other movies!!!! If you buy HDDVD, your choce
> of movies is VERY limited.
>
> 2. The manufacturers of Blu-ray are VERY big names like Samsung, Sony,
> Panasonic, Phillips, etc. Toshiba is a lot smaller than any of these
> companies.
>
> 3. Toshiba is LOSING money on each and evry HDDVD player it sells. It
> cannot hope to outlast the Big Blu-ray manufacturers.
>
> 4. HDDVD sales are very lackluster so far even though the players cost
> a lot less than Blu-ray. Studios like Warner have already announced
> they will be cuttting titles produced in HDDVD. HDDVD is a DYING
> format. The titles of HDDVD in amazon.com are doing badly compared to
> blu-ray movies like Terminator.
>
> 5. Toshiba's brand name recognition is WAY below the brand name
> recognition of Samsung, Sony, etc. Toshiba produces CHEAP
> laptops...need i say more?
>
> 6. Blu-ray can potentially store up to 200 GB of data in ONE disc! TDK
> already has a 100 GB disc being tested. HDDVD has only 30 GB of
> storage.
>
> 7. Blu-ray can run actual PROGRAMS using Java, the same application
> programming platform that runs your cellphone/PDA games/apps and SIM
> cards. This means MUCH richer interactivity capabilties than HDDVD.
> Comparing Blu-ray to HDDVD is like comparing a full-fledged application
> like Microsoft Word or Office, or DOOM to a small flash game running on
> your browser.
>
> 8. With the release of PSP3, the number of blu-ray audience will
> immediately become several fold larger than HDDVD. The few studios
> using HDDVD will abandon it and flock to Blu-ray.


Unless there is 100 percent take up by all the studios both formats will
sit in limbo. Nobody is going to start updating their cheap to buy dvd
collection to newer sharper versions until they have to (or unless they
are rich). Most people on this planet can't afford HD yet. If anybody
thinks that Blueray will help make the PS3 win the console war they are
mistaken. By 2009 we'll probably all be streaming the video singnals
from our PC's to the TV anyway, much like minidisc it will probably be
superceeded by multiformat digital files and stored on hard drives. Much
like UMD's I think the format will fade as soon as sales drop and the
format will just be used as a ps3 storage medium.

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