Brian Smith

Saw this one coming...funny how history sometimes repeats itself.

http://www.dvdtown.com/news/breaking...of-hd-dvd/4677

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AJLynn

Game over? I just read a survey that had Blu Ray movies outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1...

Brian Smith

Sure...but that's because of the PS3. The PS3 owners account for the vast majority of blu-ray disc sales and certainly there are a lot of PS3 owners to make the blu-ray sales start off well. But PS3 was never going to be a deciding factor to the winning format, because the number of PS3 owners versus the potential high def movie buyers is tiny. There was a big independent survey last month that stated that 40% of the PS3 owners had no idea that the PS3 even played blu-ray movies. It's all economics and the fact is, hd-dvd has always been about half the price of blu-ray, for the exact same quality. The only hope for blu-ray, as i saw it, was that enough movie studios would stay exclusive to blu-ray long enough for the price to come down to mass market levels.

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AJLynn

I saw that survey also. It said 40% of owners of new video game consoles didn't know the PS3 plays Blu Ray, and the youngest respondents were 6. Anyway, I'm just saying, it's not game over. The total disc sales so far, both formats included, are only about 3.7 million - nobody's got the market dominated because so far there's no market.

BrianKitts

just came across this.... a scorecard if you will of the studios and their supported formats currently....

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente...war-291361.php

Hazdaz

I am sooo sick of this format war. Not sure which one has been going on longer - the battle for Hi-Def supremacy or the quagmire in Iraq. Enough already.

I personally rather see HD-DVD win out simply because it's cheaper and it's not a SONY product, but what gets me is how people think that BluRay is somehow a superior format simply because it holds a little more storage - that's absolutely false, since both formats use the same codec and tests have proven that the 2 formats are essentially indistinguishable.

OK, so if the products perform the same, then why not go with the cheapest one? HD-DVD for me... that is if I wasn't holding off until after the war was over.

Sawyer

What they need is a poll to see how many people would have bought one of the two if there wasn't this lame ass format war.

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Brian Smith

My point exactly... which is why i was pretty sure this war was over before it began. Same product, half the price.

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Tim Nelson

I thought blu-ray was higher def because it outputs in 1080p and hd-dvd is 1080i. I'm too lazy to actually look it up, but is that false?

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Brian Smith

hd-dvd is also 1080p...at least all but the cheapest model i believe

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