The end is nigh for HD-DVD, but will Blu-ray prevail?

[Howard]

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Sony and their beligerant attitude towards standards has been a big part of putting me off several of their products. .

That's pretty much how I'd answer TheAnimus' question. HDDVD was always the more polished, "finished" format. Sony don't care about the consumers, they don't care if we have to beta-test their products for them. They just pay money to win. If it weren't for the PS3, Bluray would be nowhere near as popular.

Bluray disks arent' region free either. Which is utterly pointless. And the Java menus are crap. Oh and they cost more to manufacturer too

The thing I do like about them is the often better audio formats you'll find on the disks. TrueHD isn't nearly as popular on HD-DVD disks as DTS HD Master Audio and Uncompressed multichannel PCM is on Bluray disks. And the next-gen audio is what I love about HD

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

I always said BluRay will win because its a better name. HD-DVD is a clumsy name, adding a few letters on to the name for the current gen stuff never sounds great. BluRay sounds like alien tech from another galaxy. So its better.

Anyway, at least someone has won so we can now all get our movies on BluRay.

Microsoft can bring out a BluRay add-on for the 360, and everybodies happy.

Is that likely to happen?

[Guy]

Bah im sticking to my standard DVD's atm, aint got no plans to change them all in a long time!

[Stringent]

Funny everyone thinks Blu-Ray is Sony's product. Its not.

* Apple Inc.
* Dell Inc.
* Hewlett-Packard Company
* Hitachi, Ltd.
* LG Electronics
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic
* Pioneer Corporation
* Royal Philips Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sharp Corporation
* Sony Corporation
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK Corporation
* Thomson SA
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
* Warner Home Video Inc.

They are ALL on the board.

[TheAnimus]

Is that likely to happen?

Its roumered to already of been developed.

[Agent]

Funny everyone thinks Blu-Ray is Sony's product. Its not.

* Apple Inc.
* Dell Inc.
* Hewlett-Packard Company
* Hitachi, Ltd.
* LG Electronics
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic
* Pioneer Corporation
* Royal Philips Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sharp Corporation
* Sony Corporation
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK Corporation
* Thomson SA
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
* Warner Home Video Inc.

They are ALL on the board.

The same could be said for HD-DVD. They both have their own backers, and some sit in both camps.

[Dorza]

Funny everyone thinks Blu-Ray is Sony's product. Its not.

* Apple Inc.
* Dell Inc.
* Hewlett-Packard Company
* Hitachi, Ltd.
* LG Electronics
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic
* Pioneer Corporation
* Royal Philips Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sharp Corporation
* Sony Corporation
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK Corporation
* Thomson SA
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
* Warner Home Video Inc.

They are ALL on the board.

Yeah they are contributers but Sony was the initial spark to get Blu-ray off the ground, along with Philips and I think Pioneer also had a big role to play during the very early years of development. From what I've read Sony also control the majority of the Blu-ray Disk producing factories too .

[Stringent]

The same could be said for HD-DVD. They both have their own backers, and some sit in both camps.

Ahh but the crux is, Toshiba are the only one to manufacture the HD-DVD player. (Excluding dual players) Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp all make Blu-Ray players.

[kalniel]

Why do we need optical disks though?

We have digital distribution, and if that's not good enough, you can almost fit the same content into a card the size of a postage stamp.

[Flibb]

And the winner is


DVD

[Stringent]

*doesn't want to start another format debate*

At the end of the day, Blu is in. So lets sip our beers and get on with something else. So whats the successor to Sudoku?

[Funkstar]

We have digital distribution, and if that's not good enough, you can almost fit the same content into a card the size of a postage stamp.

Internet is too slow and bandwidth is too expensive. A single HD-DVD/BluRay title would max out most peoples monthly download limits.

Flash memory is too expensive. An optical disk takes a few pence to manufacture in quantity. have you seen the price of 32GB flash cards?

[Agent]

Ahh but the crux is, Toshiba are the only one to manufacture the HD-DVD player. (Excluding dual players) Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp all make Blu-Ray players.

There is some lower-tier company's like Venturer who make them too, so they are not alone, although granted BR does have more.

[TooNice]

Oh and they cost more to manufacturer too

No one has ever been able to explain to me why HD-DVD movies cost the same as BD movies, and why BD-R is cheaper per GB than HD-DVDR. So that means one of two things: HD-DVD is not as cheap enough to manufacture to make a practical difference (i.e. it's propaganda from HD-DVD that people took it as fact) or the HD-Camp were being greedy and decided not to pass on the savings (unlikely considering that they did so for the hardware, but anyway) or the BD camp is subsidising a good of the cost (works for me if they want to do that).

I didn't actually expect that this war would end with a clear winner. But now that it looks like we have one winner on the high-definition category, I think that it is possible for the high definition to eventually replace DVDs. DVD didn't have any competition other than VCR (and VCD in Asia) when it was released, and it wasn't always as cheap as it is now (carries some premium over VCR/VCD just as HD/BD has now).

To be honest, Compact-Disc was developed in part by Sony, and I don't really see many complaints. Perhaps not all their formats have been winners (I prefer SD over MS, but I also prefer MS over xD), but perhaps it's not to say that all their formats are inferior.

[Parm]

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[Jay]

I have a dual player so I don't care! lol