This debate will get real ugly and real old fast, people like to post off the wall facts with no thing to support it. Each camp has been declaring the other is dead since day One. Both sides are still going stronger than ever, I dont see how you can say the other is dead. I personally like HDdvd over blu-ray but I cant say blu is dead or will loose.
Even the sony CEO says theres
no clear winner, how can some guy on an offbeat news website claim to know more than the ceo? Alot of claims of 5:1 sales in favor of either camp is counting free movies bundled as part of that. Claiming victory because you gave away more movies doesnt make sense to me.
As far as capacity goes, thats not an end all answer to a winner. The margin isnt over whelming and we have delt with multi-vhs then multi-dvd movies for a long enough time. According to cnet "For HD DVD, that means capacities of 15GB and 30GB; for Blu-ray, it's 25GB and 50GB". Bluray pays for that higher capacity with higher costs and lower yields on the discs. I didnt think bluray has come close to actually making 50g discs in mass. Its on paper but hasnt been mass produced yet so that is no thing more than spec whoring.
I think sony backed themselves into a corner on the price of players. They cant really under cut the ps3 price or risk loosing sales of the ps3. HD dvd players will come in under 100$ which means huge hardware sales in turn movie sales. XXXX movie studio will see a huge installed base of players and bank on that camp for movie sales. The Hd dvd camp can use the low cost players to lock 'average' customers into a format then make up the money with media. The same way gillette locks you into a razor for cheap then charges a fortune for replacement blades lol.
On top of that theres no p0rn on blu-ray, they are foced to use HD dvd. If history is any clue, porn is a huge factor. The porn industry pushed the dvd format into what it became. Porn also backed VHS rather than beta max.
Speaking of history lets look at sony. Beta max, failed although a superior format. They backed Divx(I think), the dvd alternative where you paid per view of the disc. Disney also backed divx which was said to be the nail in the coffin for that format victory, noone knows what divx is now. Divx players cost more and locked you into 1 company(circuit city) for player options(see a resemblance to blu-ray?). UMD, yea that was a huge success on their own player their own format went under. Minidiscs put up a fight for years but never took off for the masses. How about when sony fought the mp3 format with its own, yea that failed too. Maybe their secure music Cds could be the winner against normal cds, wait no.
Sorry turned into a would be fan boy rant. As I said its just my choice and I cant post 'hd is better it out sold 6:1' based on no thing. I want to read up and learn not blindly repeat stuff off
www.bobsmoviesite.hga. So, all this is based on what I read and if Im wrong please educate me.
