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http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9154It seems as though past format battles have instilled cautiousness into consumers and manufacturers alike; neither want to back a lame horse.
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The competition is good, if Blueray was not here for example do you think HD-DVD would be cheaper or more expensive than it is now?
Hopefully the will battle each other until discs are 10p each and you can pick up players for under £100
I prefer Blueray :-)
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Is this not causing mass delay to releases on the newer formats.
eg: I'm not buying either HD DVD or Blue Ray until things are more clear. I'm not forking out on new hardware and starting to build a new AV collection to find out that in a year the beta-max extiction has hit or that only sony pictures are released on Blue ray, that sort of thing.
Unless your using the big 8 channels on Sky HD - then at the moment HD content is low without a real gamble.
It is Inevitable.....
I'm in the Blu-Ray camp, not just because I have a PS3, but because I think in the long run it'll be better for us.
HD-DVD strikes me as just a bigger version of DVD, whereas Blu-Ray has various new ideas (such as the Java stuff) that it brings with it along with the greater capacity for storage (you can never have enough storage). I'm backing it.
I understand what you are saying, however the now extinct beta-max was also superior than its competition, yet it lost.Originally Posted by Silent Shark
When its all done and dusted I think the cheapest player with the cheapest discs will win.
On the other hand, if there was only one format, you would have twice the competition between manufacturers for their share of that format. You would also get Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Denon and all the others entering the market sooner because there would be less uncertanty whether they were going to sell any units.
right now, there is are two questions from consumers: do i go HD? which format do i go with?
without the competing standards it's just a case of: do i go HD? and far more would say yes without that second question.
And because most of the components are different for the two formats, the IC and optics manufacturers have two products, negating some of the economies of scale they would have with just one product. this could also slow the price reductions.
So in theory, competition isn't always good
Last edited by Funkstar; 25-06-2007 at 12:57 PM.
well summerised, thats what I was aiming at.
It is Inevitable.....
I prefer Blue ray because the name just sounds much more cooler then 'HD DVD'.
To me it's very close to Blur-ay or Bul-Ray(It's not 'Blue-Ray' btw). And HD-DVD is just too many letters!
There's a lot of talk from both camps about which is winning the so called format war but I don't buy it. In my opinion, neither of them are winning and both formats are losing so far. The format of choice is still DVD.
There are those who feel the need to be on the cutting edge or those who feel the need to back either Sony or Toshiba for some reason. However, I think your average consumer couldn't care less. DVD's are becoming cheaper than ever, and DVD players can be purchased for next to nothing.
I'm certainly in no hurry to get on board with either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, think I'll just wait until they both die out. Could be wishful thinking but either way, I'm in no hurry to trial either format in their early stages.
Exactly. I think a lot of people (including me) will be all too aware of the parallels with VHS/Betamax and not buy anything until there's a clear "winner". Which may well lead to neither format getting a decent foothold.
Part of the problem is that very few people care about getting HD. I love seeing the HD content we have (we've got the Virgin HD box) and would love to have more available, but it's not a big enough difference for us to go and spend however many hundred pounds it's going to be on a new box to play disks that cost more than the perfectly acceptable DVDs we've got at the moment.
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