Genk @ Oct 20th 2006 12:22PM

I swear you guys get money from Sony; the amount of biased articles you write is ridiculous. They screwed up Betamax and MiniDisc and are currently screwing up Blu-Ray and PS3. How many times has both been delayed and the shoddy titles they release, they expect us to pay a silly amount for a "Beta" player that still has lots of bugs to fine tune. Sony has their heads so far up their own backside. XBOX 360/HD DVD will be everyone�s choice this Christmas despite your claims as people want the cheapest goods possible. 99% of people can't tell the visual difference between the two formats so far. As for your King Kong article, just because it may not feature TrueHD, you come across as it being a slim-picking title. How many good films has Blu-Ray released?! I can count them on one hand. How many units can decode TrueHD? And who actually cares, there are too many "high-end" audio codec�s as it is. XBOX360/HDDVD with King Kong...bye Sony!

Also, the fact Blu-Ray having one over on HD DVD by having 50GB discs is purely a myth as HD DVD has triple layer 45GB discs ready and waiting when the Studios require the extra space. 30GB for a movie coded in VC-1 is the sweet spot for 1080p compression, so who needs 50GB MPEG2 Blu-Ray discs. The VC-1 codec is now compressing at 10mbps per movie, action movies as well, showing how the codec has grown over the past year, a Microsoft Codec. Sticking with MPEG is going against the trend. Once Blu-Ray take some common sense and adopt VC-1, the price of the players will be the factor, and HD DVD has let its technology be used for cheaper alternative Asian-produced players, which means very cheap players. Once a player hits the sub 100 mark, the better the market will become and one will become the outright winner, not looking good for the Sony rip-off money machine. As for being adopted by the masses, the PS3 is negated by the XBOX 360. The PS3 gets connected to normal CRT non-HDTV for the kids, the family picks up the free Blu-Ray disc and sticks it in, then realises there�s no difference from a normal DVD and throws away the idea of buying more Blu-Ray software, that being the key! As for the software, XBOX360 on the other hand, if you actually put the effort in to know about it and buy the HD DVD add on (it wont be bought for XBOXs in kids rooms hooked up to 4:3 CRTs) it being a HD DVD, common sense tells you it needs a HDTV. Those who buy the HD DVD add-on will buy HD DVDs as no other reason for owning it. With every HD DVD drive sold per head, you are looking at someone who will buy the discs, with the PS3 not necessarily.