Posted by Jordan on 01/17/07 06:34

asjbio...@gmail.com wrote:

> 1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD

Incorrect.

144 HD-DVD releases:
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates_historical.html

vs. 130 Blu-Ray titles:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/releasedates_historical.html

I forgot, new stuff comes out today...

http://w.engadgethd.com/2007/01/15/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-releases-on-janurary-16th-2007/

HD DVD 154 vs Blu-ray 137.

> 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)!!!

That same logic says that people should be buying UMD movies. After
all, there are close to 20 million PSP's out there... Oops. Nobody is
buying them for UMD movies.

The problem for UMD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is the same. The title
selection sucks. Until there is a Matrix level killer ap we won't see
one format eclipse the other, much less eclipse DVD. When will that be?
Spider-Man 3 on Blu-Ray sometime in 2008? I don't think either format
will last that long unless there's a killer ap before then.

> 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.

Irrelevant since they can't seem to actively produce 50GB discs.

HD-DVD 3 layer discs are now at... 51GB. Intentional? You bet.

http://www.itnewsonline.com/showstory.php?storyid=7937&scatid=3&contid=2

- Jordan

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