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Blu-ray Vs. HD DVD: Battle ends
Posted on 19/12/07 15:16 by Tim Stork
Not games, but movies will do the trick in 2008. Currently there is a huge line-up of movies and heavy studios are willing to invest in anything that is revolutionary.
The only thing Blu-ray or HD DVD needs to do is make themself look interesting to parties like Walt Disney and Warner Bros.
This means that one studio could make a huge difference in this battle, and put one of the formats in winning position.
Which one will the studios choose?
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PlasticKnee (guest),
Wednesday 19 December 2007 15:28
Let start a poll which one we think that they will choose.
I thought Disney chose Blu-ray and WB chose both. Am I wrong? I do hope this stupid war is over soon so I can start copyi... er, buying just one format.By
HenryF (guest),
Wednesday 19 December 2007 15:33
Blu-ray all the way, more capacity!
Yeah, Blu-ray rocks. Double the DRM, nasty root kit and will probably explode on you. Thanks Sony.
By
los (guest),
Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:13
So...i agree with Duke. Disney is/will continue to support BluRay. Warner is/will continue to support both...or will they? At any rate; both formates will live through 2008...that we can be pretty certain of considering the amount of money/royalties involved on both sides. No worries though Combo Players and your set for both! 
BluRay all the way! Give us extreme DRM, we users love it!You stupid fanboys 
Dual format players will win 
And the movie will be on the format who will be on the most reachable shelf on store 
Oooo, i forgot, the BD+ is not cracked yet, so HD DVD FTW 
Dual format players will win
And the movie will be on the format who will be on the most reachable shelf on store
Oooo, i forgot, the BD+ is not cracked yet, so HD DVD FTW 
Right. Neither side will back down. Just like we have DVD+ and DVD-. Early adopters will pay out the *ss for a dual format device, that can process all the DRM strategies for both formats. Then, prices will drop as HD is accepted and the players will go mainstream.
Once a majority are weaned off DVD- the studios will pull the rug out from under everyone, removing DVD from the marketplace - just like they did with tape and vinyl, giving you the "choice" of Blu-ray or HD DVD titles with all sorts of DRM goodies and extra charges for things you get for free now. 
This message was edited at: 19-12-2007 19:30
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Monday (guest),
Friday 21 December 2007 16:58
Pretty likely at this point the blu-ray will "win". Both formats are great, but blu-ray has about 65% of the media market share with hd-dvd at %35. Blu-ray has sold more media all 50 weeks of this year, and is looking to make a clean sweep of the entire year as Hd-dvd's biggest chance to take a week was last week -- when there were several buy one get one's on bourne.
The only thing that is really keeping this whole thing in limbo is Warner Bros. sitting on the fence. They are expected to announce a position soon. If they choose blu-ray (and they've said they will choose the format which sells the most media over the holidays), then the media production will be ~90% to 10% in favor of blu-ray. If they go with hd-dvd, then it will be closer to 50-50, and no studio has an interest in this war lasting longer. It's likely WB will choose blu-ray -- to end the war, and because of the higher overall media sales.
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Nuttdriver (guest),
Saturday 22 December 2007 03:40
Technology always advances. Why would you bother wasting your money on a crappy HD DVD player when Blu is proven to be far superior.
Despite the different type of lasers used, Blu-ray products can easily be made backwards compatible with CDs and DVDs through the use of a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical pickup unit. The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) is that it has a shorter wavelength than a red laser (650nm), which makes it possible to focus the laser spot with even greater precision. This allows data to be packed more tightly and stored in less space, so it's possible to fit more data on the disc even though it's the same size as a CD/DVD. This together with the change of numerical aperture to 0.85 is what enables Blu-ray Discs to hold 25GB/50GB.
So let me ask you HD DVD fans....can your player keep up with that?? New computers are getting faster and faster. Wouldn't you think a faster data rate is the next step in home entertainment?
Where were you when Toshiba announced 50GB HD-DVD's?
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/news/show/422
So when you say "Blu is proven far superior" is it because of the 'huge' storage capacity over HD-DVD? Or the clever DRM garbage that Sony will throw in there?
Personally, I dont want Sony proprietary formats forced on me since they always costs more than other formats..
The only thing really needing to be done to help ensure Blu-ray goes down is for the HD-DVD camp to start a public education campaign showing all the extra copy protections on Blu-ray, etc. that would (currently) make even possibly watching your title very difficult--one user inside the CDFreaks forum complained 3 firmware updates were needed JUST to be ABLE to watch Spiderman 3 on a Blu-ray player! If consumers en masse know about that one little fact and just how much the Blu-ray copy protection restricts fair use rights (i.e., to be able to easily make an archival copy in case the original is damaged or becomes unplayable), then that would help sink Blu-ray.
I'm certainly rooting for HD DVD. Down with Blu-ray!Yes, but the HD-DVD camp won't do that because the studios WANT copy protection . Before I'll consider an HD player, the DRM has to be completely broken, the discs have to be as cheap as DVDs currently are (I rarely pay more than $10 for a title), and the players have to be below US $50. Oh, and if it's BR, Sony's royalty income from the format will have to have dwindled down to nothing.
. Before I'll consider an HD player, the DRM has to be completely broken, the discs have to be as cheap as DVDs currently are (I rarely pay more than $10 for a title), and the players have to be below US $50. Oh, and if it's BR, Sony's royalty income from the format will have to have dwindled down to nothing.By
SpeedyJDK (guest),
Tuesday 25 December 2007 22:19
Blu-Ray. More capacity. (And DRM is only for those poor bastards who buys... *carf* i mean, who doesn't have AnyDVD running in background to remove the DRM)
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