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Posted by asjbiotek on 01/17/07 17:44
With regards to DVD title sales, here is the sales graph from
amazon.com of HD-HDVD versus BLu-ray sales. HD-DVD had a major
advantage at the beginning (since it started selling players much
earlier), but you can see that Blu-ray is rising much more rapidly.
http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/graphs/salesrank-1-1-recent30.jpg
In fact, BLu-ray has caught up already and will soon be much larger
than it simply because a lot more titles will be released in Blu-ray
than HD-DVD simply because there are 5 major studios NOT releasing any
HD-DVD.
So again, if you look at the trends, HD-DVD is going to lose, no
questions about it.
asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
> SP Goodman wrote:
> > This reads like a transcript from a Scientology pep rally! No facts and a
> > lot of information left out, but lots of ENTHUSIASM! And EXCLAMATION
> > POINTS!
> >
>
> http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5345
>
> Experts quizzed by the FM this week say they expect the DVD will have
> gone the way of the VHS cassette by 2010. They also predict a bleak
> future for HD-DVD and say that Sony will emerge triumphant with
> Blu-ray.
>
> A single-layer HD-DVD disc stores about 15GB of data; a single-layer
> Blu-ray disc about 25GB. Dual-layer HD-DVD and Blu ray discs store 30GB
> and 50GB respectively. A single-sided DVD, by contrast, stores only
> 4,7GB, so a dual-layer Blu-ray disc has about 10 times the capacity of
> a DVD. That's enough to store 50 copies of the Encyclopaedia
> Britannica on a disc that weighs a couple of grams!
>
> But do we need all this capacity? The answer is a resounding "yes".
> The limitations of DVD as a computer storage technology are already
> becoming apparent.
>
> The battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray is reminiscent of the standards
> war in the early 1980s between VHS and Betamax. Betamax, developed by
> Sony, was trounced by JVC's VHS. Consumers preferred VHS, even though
> it was the inferior technology, because it offered a longer recording
> time than Betamax (the original Betamax tapes could not record a
> full-length movie).
>
> Now, as the world moves to a new format, Sony looks set to get its
> comeuppance. Though HD-DVD has some powerful backers - they include
> Microsoft, Intel and Universal Studios - Sony has secured the backing
> of Korea's consumer electronics giants, Samsung and LG Electronics,
> as well as Panasonic, Hitachi, Apple Computer, Dell, Twentieth Century
> Fox, Warner Bros and Disney
>
> Mark Lu, CEO of local IT distributor Rectron, which sells computer
> products for both Sony and Toshiba, thinks Blu-ray will prevail. "I
> do not see that HD-DVD has much chance. Blu-ray is going to
> dominate." He says Blu-ray has the performance and capacity
> advantage, and, like HD-DVD, offers full backward compatibility with
> DVDs and CDs.
>
> Jean Victor, senior product manager for audiovisual solutions at
> Samsung SA, which introduced its first Blu-ray player in SA last month
> (retail price: R14000), agrees with Lu. HD-DVD, he says, is doomed.
> Though some manufacturers, such as LG Electronics, have already said
> they will manufacture equipment capable of playing both HD-DVD and
> Blu-ray discs, Victor expects that Blu-ray will become the standard.
> Products capable of playing both formats will cost more because
> manufacturers will have to pay additional royalties, he says. They will
> also be more expensive to produce.
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