http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006159.html



HD-DVD was seeing a decline this past year, but this sudden move by Warner Brothers is a huge loss in the campaign against Blu-ray. Although Warner will continue to sell HD-DVD titles into 2008, they will no longer be producing for both HD-DVD and Blu-ray. However, Paramount is still in the HD game going exclusively HD-DVD which means HD-DVD isn't dead yet. On the other hand, it would appear that Sony's move to incorporate Blu-ray in to their PS3s has paid off for the time being.

Comments?

BD-DVD release was pretty silly (nothing going for it except PS3)...but HD-DVD was even more silly (it's like no one except Toshiba really cared). IMO, both formats failed but if any of them have momentum, it is BD-DVD.

I could care less which one wins.

And, here we sit, being jerked around again until the next technology supercedes both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD...triggering another round of consumer spending just to play catch-up in an increasingly **IA dominated world.

I wonder what would happen if Microsoft (HD-DVD), instead of looking at acquiring Yahoo, looked at acquiring one or more of these major movie houses? Does MS even have the resources to do that?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141177/article.html
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/10/microsoft_denies_hddvd_reuters_quote/
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34207/118/

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
Could you? Because I couldn't. I'm caring as little as I possibly can.

Bobby said:

Heh, grammar ftw!

As long as it's settled before I go in the HD department, then It's cool with me whoever wins. Sony from the looks of it.

I'm in the same boat. I have no HD TVs and I have no intention of getting one. The old tubes, VCRs, and DVD players still work great.

Toshiba aired a HD-DVD ad during the Super Bowl, so it appears they aren't giving up just yet. Unless every studio goes on one side or the other, we could see a multi-format industry which would be great for competition and the consumers. Samsung and LG have dual format players out and both of them have just launched their second generation dual format players. But until there is a cheap dual format player or a clear winner, I got my trusty Pioneer 1080p upscaling DVD player. It's not as good as an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray but from back on the couch which is fourteen feet away, you can't see the difference much anyway.

Well from past experience with sony. Most of the formats they make fail. Why? Well it isnt that it is a bad product.. beta, there music format etc. Its that sony shoots them selves in the foot every time. They wouldnt share there beta (which was better quality) nor there audio format (i forget the name). Thus we never see it around. They did share the cd though.

Imo with blue ray, the only reason it is still around is that they keep pumping $ into the advertising and buying off companies to have them use it. Doing that is all fine and well, but hd-dvd has what 1/4 the advertising and is doing almost as well in being out there to the public.

But mainly due to the price difference, if one goes under or quits/backs off i would say it will be blue ray.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL1643184420080217



Now, just waiting to see what happens to the prices of Blu-Ray players, burner, blank media, and movies now. I saw a Blu-Ray burner at Newegg today for $360.
LITE-ON Black 12X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 4X DVD+R DL 12X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-ROM 32X CD-R 24X CD-RW 32X CD-ROM SATA 2X Blu-ray Disc Triple DVD Burner-Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106037

Dilbert said:





Well...... I think this will say it all ---> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7252172.stm

Sony won a format war? I must have woken up in a parallel universe today.

I think that the final blow to HD-DVD is when Warner Bros. and Walmart ( I believe both are the biggest in their own catagories, i.e. film and retailer, in the world) said they would switch to Blu-ray exclusively.

It pretty much looks like the final nail in the coffin was driven with the news that Toshiba is backing out of their distribution of HD players.

Feels sorry for those who jumped the gun and purchased HD players.

Jay