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tamalero   02-17-2008 at 07:00:26 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/bus [...] 4420080216


Toshiba to pull the plug on HD-DVD

BLU-RAY as WON D:

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raiden99   03-16-2008 at 09:25:57 AM
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Blu-ray as one or Blu-ray has won? ;)

I, for one, saw this coming from the start. I saw that there were much more big titles on Blu-ray than HDDVD along with Disney backing Blu-ray. Mostly, even though I liked how cheap HDDVD movies are and players, Blu-ray set itself enough apart from DVD that it seems more of a nextgen setup than HDDVD. Of course, we all know that's not 100% the case, it's still enough to maybe push an executive over to the dark side. :)

I just hope that Sony doesn't get greedy and start charging more for royalties, etc. They certainly seem to overvalue those kind of things. Plus, I don't like how exclusive they always seem to be. However, if they can step up to the plate and help drive Bluray prices down then I don't see why we can't embrace Bluray as the DVD replacement.

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Logomachist   09-27-2008 at 09:00:22 AM
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Well it's nice that someone saw it coming. I hadn't been following the formats to closely and when HD-DVDs obituary ran, I was dumbstruck. I was expecting one of two scenarios:

  • Either the two formats would remain roughly as popular and most people would stick to vanilla DVD drives, instead of upgrading to a questionable format. Aren't holodraphic drives expected to hit the market in 2010? That's what I'm holding out for.
  • Or HD-DVD would win because naive consumers thought that HD-DVD would be better for their HDTVs because of the name.


It looked to me that Sony was depending on PS3 to sell Blu-Ray, and when the PS3 tanked I thought it would take Blu-ray with it. So, yeah, I was amazed.

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