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looks like Blu Ray has won the format war, will HD DVD become the new BETAMAX or UMD?
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6 Responses to “looks like Blu Ray has won the format war, will HD DVD become the new BETAMAX or UMD?”
Whoever is behind HD DVD is doing a piss-poor job of promoting it. PS3 is the reason BluRay will dominate in the future, not Blockbuster.
probably. which really stinks. i think they do this on purpose just so they can make even more $$ off of us for we've allready bought but can't use.
Granted, Blockbuster picking Blu Ray is a big hit against HD DVD, but I'm not sure that it's the death blow for the format. One of them definately will become the next Beta and go away – or both. If the technology gets here fast enough, it could be huge hard drives on media servers in people's homes with "rental" downloads of HD films.
Most baby boomer consumers do not own either of them yet, most of us learned from the Betamax days that you should not dive into a format until it has matured. I didn't get a DVD player until about three years ago, and will not get HD for a little while, until the dust settles.
I am not sure what you mean have retailers stop selling HD DVD?
I still think it is to early to declare a clear winner in the supposed format war! This is probably a Sony rep trying to generate sales hype to sell more players.
Since Sony will not give a release date for a Blue ray recorder or since most TV is not 1080p but 1080i. I foresee Blue-ray becoming a antiquated format and loose support. Sony is making the same mistakes with Blue ray as Beta Max. Which was the superior format in specs, but not enough playback space most movies needed 2 tapes and the price premium they charged self-distructed the format. Laser disk had the same problem. SACD ring a bell. Sony has never rolled out successful format.
Look for a fusion format that makes everybody happy.
S-Vhs did this for VHS and Beta. The benefits of both on one format and you could backward compliant a VHS in a SVHS VCR but the improved resolution of separated luminance and chrominance.
So in summary this question is batted around who will win. The answer is we don't know the winner, they will sell more than the other and the formats are too new to determine this. It took 10 years for beta to go away. That was really SVHS fault.
The manufactures understand sales so buy now or wait to buy it is your decision. look how often the FCC has changed the Analog cut off for broadcasts it used to be 1999 then 2001 now 2009. Sales determine where things are going although Blockbuster has agreed to rent Blue rays they still aren't rented!
Given the price point of Blue ray players Sony has a long way to make these a household item. Note what the High-end community is doing. Denon one of my favorite receiver companies just released a smokin' DVD PLAYER. Why no HD or Blue ray? Their company reps say not enough stability to release a player in either format.
So companies say the format could swing in either direction or another altogether.
In closing don't try to make yourself feel better in your early adoption trashing one format for another.
this should stop any other idiots from hyping a format over another since I will watch and see if you are out there SONY!
The big point that some people are missing is that the percentage of all high definition sales (Blu Ray and HD-DVD combined) is still really, really small. You can't decide a format war if most people haven't made a choice.
The Blockbuster news hurts HD DVD, but not that much. Blockbuster will still rent HD DVDs in any store they currently rent them at, plus they'll continue to rent them online. Considering the small number of any High Def rentals, it's not going to hurt that much. Any HD DVD owner can still rent online from Blockbuster or Netflix and be fine.
If I'm really looking to see who's winning the war, I'd look to player sales, both for percentage and sheer volume. Without anyone buying, the volume isn't there to decide anything. And I suspect that HD DVD has made a large move in percentage of sales recently (given Toshiba's recent promotion). That suggests to me that nothing has been decided.