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hd DVD vs bluray?

with hd dvd soon to unvail hd discs with the storage capacity of upto 150gb compaired to blurays 51gb
and hd dvd out selling bluray 3 to 1 in europe
yet sales figures of bluray outselling hd at 2to1 in usa
the sales figures of bluray owners buying 0.30 movies per blurayplayer
sales figures of hd dvd owners buying on avarage of 6.3 movies per hd player brought
is it just playstation 3 that is keeping the bluray movie format alive even though they do not buy movies?
and will the massive influx of hd dvd players and xbox hd player add ons with a ratio of 6.3 movies per unit sold spell the end of blu ray?
what do you think?
HP who had been a big Blu-Ray supporter and dominates the Media Center PC market, introduced a 0 HD DVD upgrade for their PCs (Sony’s Blu-Ray VIAO solution was just dropped to 9). The impact of this last move is still too early to measure but there is no comparably priced (not even close) solution using Blu-Ray. with this shift in support by hewlitt packard and microsoft being the major backer of hd dvd is it all finally over can we all buy hd dvd and be happy?

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One Response to “hd DVD vs bluray?”

  1. Earth: The Connected Home on November 6th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    The VHS – Beta question has come back to haunt us, to be sure, but there’s a simple solution. Buy a unit that has both a Blu-ray and an HD-DVD laser diode assembly in it. You can get them stand alone or in a PC.

    In the US there are far more titles available in Blu-ray, so far, but I don’t have to concern myself with it because I can shop in both camps. I stick either disk into my unit and it plays.

    Now that we’re lasing in near-blue, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw 6 layer disks that hold 300 gig, maybe even more. There is a theoretical limit based on the diameter of the laser beam and the materials available for building disks but we have some room to grow before we reach it.

    If either camp dies, it will be bad for consumers. Competition is a good thing. It spawns inovation and narrows profit margins.

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