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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mcloki @ Oct 12th 2006 11:08AM
Face it, Blue Ray, Barring some terrible flaw (scratches ruining disks prematurely) is going to win. You know next year at least 12 million Blue Ray drives will be out there. I don't think that even if the 360 sells 35 million units that they will sell that many add-on HD HVD units.It's just a numbers game.
zargon @ Oct 12th 2006 1:18PM
If you look at everything going on now, I think it is totally the other way around. Barring some major problem for HD-DVD, Blu-ray will go the way of Beta-max, well, maybe more so MD where Sony forces it to stay around even though it is going no where.
HD-DVD has everything going for it right now, price, quality, etc... Blu-ray has been doing nothing but blowing smoke up peoples ass. With HD-DVD lead in this war, I don't think even the PS3 are going to be enough to swing the tables. Studios and hardware manufactures that have claimed sole alliance to Blu-ray are jumping ship or at least playing both sides, which is going to help HD-DVD more than Blu-ray. I expected as much, they are just going where the money is.
Hy-brid players would be nice to see, but if things keep going the way they are. We aren't going to need them as HD-DVD will grab more and more of the studio support (all they need for support is for them to release HD-DVD, even if they do Blu-ray also). We will know when the nail is in the coffin for Blu-ray though, when Sony Pictures and all that encompass it release their first HD-DVD.
This war is not about PS3 vs Xbox 360, Sony is just trying to push their format out by using the PS3. As we have seen thus far, they are only shooting themselves in the foot by doing so, it is one of the reasons with the delays/problems/quantities of the PS3. Though, part of that is also just the Sony hype train biting off way more than it can chew, as usual.