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January 4, 2008 4:42 AM PST
Warner Bros. to back Blu-ray DVD format exclusively
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Move seen by some as an end to the format war; Toshiba, maker of the rival HD DVD technology, vows to fight on.
The party for HD DVD is over, literally
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I appreciate the fight but those who are technically inclined are not buying HD DVD or Bluray just because you are touting something that is just about the same as a BR Disc without much significance in price reduction.
For now i just stick with DVD even with a 500+ lines I can still live with it. If the movie production companies don't make a concerted decision anytime soon, your sales ain't gonna go up!
All I seem to see is "Xbox" insults or "Sony" insults or "Fan Boy" insults - that suggests to me that a person is attached to a "NAME" rather than the particular merits of a technology. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.
because of the PS3. the PS3 comes with a blu ray player.
M$ may have chosen HD-DVD as their format, but you don?t get a player with the 360, you have to pay extra and buy one. (add on)
For the price they charge for the player, you can pretty much buy a stand alone HD-DVD player that is of better quality, the Toshiba A30.
Now lets discuss how that impacts the numbers
when determining who is winning we need to look at total players sold. that after all tells us how many people are going to buy the movies on the format.
Blu ray players outsold HD-DVD players 2-1. I submit that is because the PS3 has padded the blu ray players sales figures.
For every PS3 sold, it also counts as a blu ray player sold. Even if the person who purchased the PS3 has no intention of using it as a blu ray player.
HD-DVD gets no such love from M$?s xbox 360.
Hence blu ray will win out in the end.
Good decision by sony to include a blu ray player in the PS3. It may have cost them more money to produce the PS3 and they aren't making any profit on the console sales, but they are going to make 10 times more on movie sales and licensing when the format war is over.
Thank god the war is coming to an end. We the consumer have suffered for too long with it. Many of us, myself included had to become format neutral to enjoy all the movies we wanted.
now in a year what am i supposed to do w/ this HD-DVD player i paid 450.00 for? throw it in the trash i guess.
But as for today the 360 have a good line-up of games and the Toshiba player do a great job playing my DVDs. Hopefully the DVD prices will go down while the studios focus on the HD part of things. Great!
What exactly prompted Warners to make this appalling decision will eventually emerge. But one thing is for sure. Three quarters of a million owners of HD-DVD
Just what transpired to lead to this appalling decision will eventually come out. But one thing is for sure. 750,000 owners of HD-DVD players, nearly all of whom absolutely love their machines, are going to remember this day forever as an ill-conceived decision motivated only by corporate profits and NOT in the best interest of the consumer!
light sabre! HD DVD sounds like something out of the tombs of
dullness at Microsoft.
Movie companies should release the both format.
What was that failed JPEG/RAW killer from MS? HD Photo?
They suggest a standard but they don't ship necessary support for
Mecca of Multimedia, Apple OS X and it fails. See a pattern there?
an electronics company
should never be allowed
to own there own motion
picture studio
they have an invested
reason for the blu-ray
to win screw the
little people
- Paramount escape clause.
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by ralfthedog
January 7, 2008 7:41 AM PST
- With any luck, Paramount included an escape clause in the exclusivity deal they had with Toshiba. If HD DVD sales drop to half or less of Blue-ray for x number days, Paramount is allowed to jump back to the Blue.
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See all 51 Comments >>It would just take one HD DVD studio crossing over to the light to turn HD DVD into nothing but a very bad memory.
Long live the Blue!