Blu-ray might have won but it's still a long way off from a mass scale adoption. The high price is a stumbling block and unless Blu-ray players and HDTVs become affordable i can see it struggling to take off. Also i hope you people are aware of the Holographic technology which literally pisses all over blu-ray and hd dvd.
And the winner is Blu-ray from Sony!!!
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HD-DVD supporter microsoft will be in trouble and will affect their x-box marketing. Sony will now come up with whole lot of mess like region coding, disk player locking etc. But if the world can unlock iPhone so quickly, its just a matter of few days before the blu-ray security devices are torn down. 
This will anyway increase the popularity of PS3.
This will anyway increase the popularity of PS3.gregory house
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First Law of Media Formats
If a format has no work around, it probably won't work.
Second Law of Media Formats
Every media format will eventually have a work around.
Third Law of Media Formats
If you outlaw the workaround, the first law might take effect.
Sums up the situation nicely. Also explains why DVD Audio is dead (can't rip the stupid thing to play it on the PC).
If a format has no work around, it probably won't work.
Second Law of Media Formats
Every media format will eventually have a work around.
Third Law of Media Formats
If you outlaw the workaround, the first law might take effect.
Sums up the situation nicely. Also explains why DVD Audio is dead (can't rip the stupid thing to play it on the PC).
hd dvd defeat would definitely help Sony with the sales of their playstation 3 consoles.it remains the cheapest way to get a blu-ray drive.. and you get a gaming console for free!
February 20, 2008, 5:05 pm Blu-ray Won the Battle, but Now Comes the War
By Saul Hansell
There is a concept rattling around the blogosphere that Sony’s victory over Toshiba in the war to define the high-definition video disc format is moot because soon people will be downloading high-definition videos rather than buying them on discs.
I suspect Blu-ray will have a hard time for a few years, but not because of downloading. That is simply too hard for the mass market. Buying discs is easy to do and easy to understand.
The competition for Blu-ray players is the latest generation of DVD players which can generate a high-definition signal from a standard-definition disc.
Right now, Blu-ray players cost $350 to $400. Sony PlayStation 3 game machines, which also play Blu-ray discs, also cost about $400.
I called Mike Abt, the president of Abt Electronics, the big Chicago-area electronics retailer, to ask about his take on demand for Blu-ray players in the wake of the withdrawal of Toshiba’s HD DVD format.
He said the biggest question is how Sony and the other manufacturers approach pricing.
“If Blu-ray is really smart they won’t raise prices even though they can, now that they have no competition,” he said. “They haven’t got everyone to join in and want a Blu-ray.”
“Most people are happy just buying a better DVD player, instead of spending $350 or $400 for Blu-ray,” Mr. Abt said. “An upconverting DVD for $79 is a great value. It has a great picture, really better than an old DVD. You really see a difference.”
What is more, he said, consumers will be put off because Blu-ray discs cost $5 to $10 more than standard DVDs.
Sure, the super-high-end home theater buyers will start to get Blu-ray players, Mr. Abt said. They had already been buying the combination Blu-ray and HD DVD players from Samsung and other makers. (Those are the folks who may experiment with Apple TV or other ways to download movies, I suspect, but they will have disc players too.)
But Blu-ray will represent far less than 25 percent of disc players sold until the price falls below $200 or even $150, he said.
What about all the people who bought HD DVD players, prompted by Toshiba’s aggressive price cuts? Mr. Abt hopes he can at least partially mitigate their anger and frustration by pointing out how well the players can display standard DVDs.
“We have a lot of people who bought HD DVD players in the last few months,” he said. “We are going to communicate with them: you have an upconverting DVD player, enjoy it. You paid $150 for it, so you didn’t lose too much.”
Blu-ray Won the Battle, but Now Comes the War - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
By Saul Hansell
There is a concept rattling around the blogosphere that Sony’s victory over Toshiba in the war to define the high-definition video disc format is moot because soon people will be downloading high-definition videos rather than buying them on discs.
I suspect Blu-ray will have a hard time for a few years, but not because of downloading. That is simply too hard for the mass market. Buying discs is easy to do and easy to understand.
The competition for Blu-ray players is the latest generation of DVD players which can generate a high-definition signal from a standard-definition disc.
Right now, Blu-ray players cost $350 to $400. Sony PlayStation 3 game machines, which also play Blu-ray discs, also cost about $400.
I called Mike Abt, the president of Abt Electronics, the big Chicago-area electronics retailer, to ask about his take on demand for Blu-ray players in the wake of the withdrawal of Toshiba’s HD DVD format.
He said the biggest question is how Sony and the other manufacturers approach pricing.
“If Blu-ray is really smart they won’t raise prices even though they can, now that they have no competition,” he said. “They haven’t got everyone to join in and want a Blu-ray.”
“Most people are happy just buying a better DVD player, instead of spending $350 or $400 for Blu-ray,” Mr. Abt said. “An upconverting DVD for $79 is a great value. It has a great picture, really better than an old DVD. You really see a difference.”
What is more, he said, consumers will be put off because Blu-ray discs cost $5 to $10 more than standard DVDs.
Sure, the super-high-end home theater buyers will start to get Blu-ray players, Mr. Abt said. They had already been buying the combination Blu-ray and HD DVD players from Samsung and other makers. (Those are the folks who may experiment with Apple TV or other ways to download movies, I suspect, but they will have disc players too.)
But Blu-ray will represent far less than 25 percent of disc players sold until the price falls below $200 or even $150, he said.
What about all the people who bought HD DVD players, prompted by Toshiba’s aggressive price cuts? Mr. Abt hopes he can at least partially mitigate their anger and frustration by pointing out how well the players can display standard DVDs.
“We have a lot of people who bought HD DVD players in the last few months,” he said. “We are going to communicate with them: you have an upconverting DVD player, enjoy it. You paid $150 for it, so you didn’t lose too much.”
Blu-ray Won the Battle, but Now Comes the War - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
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early technology adopters/betters always get screwed... i bought some Sony MiniDisc players a few years ago thinking they would replace CDs, but now look at the situation (i have the original massive "MZ-1" minidisc recorder model of theirs )
but ya, it will be nice to buy a PS3 just for the BD drive and get a gaming console for free - and with full HD video support
arstechnica points out some reasons why HD-DVD failed against BD: 3 things HD DVD coulda, shoulda done to be a contenda
)but ya, it will be nice to buy a PS3 just for the BD drive and get a gaming console for free - and with full HD video support
arstechnica points out some reasons why HD-DVD failed against BD: 3 things HD DVD coulda, shoulda done to be a contenda
Sony having an inbuilt Blu ray player in a PS3 has nothing to do with them winning the format war. It was always going to be decided by the movie studios. The defection of Warner Bros from Hd dvd was a fatal blow to the hd dvd camp. Quite how Warner Bros came to the conclusion that the consumers had chosen blu-ray over hd dvd is amusing. Prior to the warner bros switch the sales figure of both players hardly had a significant difference. Besides the European Union have initiated a probe against the movie studios who have recently decided to support blu-ray. And if you think that this is a small issue you only have to ask microsoft and intel about them.