Posted by asjbiotek on 01/24/07 15:49

"This reminds me of DIVX, the old Pay Per View DVD format dreamed up by
Circuit City and some other providers."

Except this time Disney and others (especially Sony's MGMG and
Columbia) really aren't releasing in HD-DVD, especially as Blu-ray
sales already are surpassing HD-DVD sales and HD-DVD is already feeling
the heat even though it came out first and had more titles and sales at
the beginning.

"Right now my money's on HD-DVD, only because the hardware price is so
much less than HD-DVD's."

According to analysts, as manufacturing scales up, the price of Blu-ray
players could go as low as $299

The point again is CONTENT. so long as Blu-ray has content, and the
other side does not, Blu-ray will continue to increase its lead oiver
HD-DVD in sales and # titles...it's a self-fulfilling, feedback cycle.



On Jan 24, 9:27 am, "Jim Burgan" <jimbo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>> And it'll just get worse as more people buy playstation and more
> >>> blu-ray titles come out. Just this week, i already got the recent Ice
> >>> Age 2 in blu-ray (and it's 20th century fox, so NO HD-DVD copy!)This reminds me of DIVX, the old Pay Per View DVD format dreamed up by
> Circuit City and some other providers.
> Everywhere I looked I saw ads saying, 20th Century Fox will be releasing
> content on DIVX formatted DVDS, so Star Wars, True Lies and Romancing the
> Stone will never be released on 'open' DVD.
> Disney was also a part of the DIVX group, so you weren't going to see Mary
> Poppins on 'open DVD.
> We all know how that turned out.
> In retrospect, I wish DIVX had worked out.. someone eventually broke their
> encoding scheme, so if DIVX had worked out, we would be getting movies from
> the big screen to DIVX within 60 days from the end of general release, and
> the cost would have been $3.99.
>
> Honestly I don't know which format will win. I don't think the format will
> take off until either Blue Ray for HD-DVD has become dominant.
> I've always been an early adopter of new technology, but I'm waiting this
> one out. Right now my money's on HD-DVD, only because the hardware price is
> so much less than HD-DVD's.

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