Recent Comments:
THX Chief Scientist: "It's too late for Blu-ray" {Engadget HD}
Mar 26th 2008 8:43AM "I think I'll stick with optical media for another 10-15 years"
Just like people are sticking with CDs?
THX Chief Scientist: "It's too late for Blu-ray" {Engadget HD}
Mar 26th 2008 8:37AM "I can't wait to say goodbye to the nineties"
90s? Spinning optical discs are a 1960s technology that should be ditched ASAP.
HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on March 11th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Mar 10th 2008 3:39PM HD-DVD has been outselling Blu-Ray on Amazon.com and Amazon.de for the last week.
After a peak 3 weeks ago, Blu-Ray sales are falling.
So what's this 90%+ market share bull?
Paramount officially Blu-ray (again) {Engadget HD}
Feb 21st 2008 12:29PM I bet Michael Bay will claim Tansformers looks better on Blu-Ray, even though it will have a bit-for-bit identical AVC encode to the HD-DVD.
HD DVD players become DVD upscalers in format war fallout {Engadget HD}
Feb 21st 2008 12:22PM What the idiots at Engadget don't realise is that the EP30 has been outselling all Blu-Ray standalone's on Play.Com (where image came from) for months and is still doing so. Same thing on Amazon UK.
It's been selling out and coming back into stock many times and if they could order more they would... It's selling more than regular DVD players.
Toshiba sez it wouldn't change a thing, still thinks HD DVD is better {Engadget HD}
Feb 20th 2008 2:46AM Even the BDA technical committee wanted to use HDi instead of Java.
Then some "suits" over-ruled them just because Microsoft developed it.
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6281492.html
Toshiba sez it wouldn't change a thing, still thinks HD DVD is better {Engadget HD}
Feb 20th 2008 2:35AM So better formats always win?
Err... VHS???
Paramount and Universal to publish films on Blu-ray {Engadget HD}
Feb 19th 2008 1:34PM ...and LG are not dropping HD-DVD:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/12929/13953/lg-back-hddvd-disc-players.phtml
LG not dumping HD DVD
In a strange move, LG has said it will continue to back, develop and offer HD DVD players.
LG has issued a statement to Pocket-lint following the announcement this morning that Toshiba was stopping support for the HD DVD format.
"LG believes that at this present moment in time, it is necessary to provide a player which supports both formats and therefore create simplicity and convenience for the existing HDDVD consumer."
LG, who currently offer a dual machine capable of playing both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs isn't dumping the format straight away.
Daniel Aziz, marketing manager for LG Electronics told us:
"With the recent announcement from Toshiba, Blu-Ray will now be the format that will pave the way for high definition movies, however this does not rule out HDDVD immediately as there are still a number of consumers who have chosen HDDVD and begun to build a HDDVD collection."
Before going on to say that "The previous confusion in the high definition market (HDDVD v Blu-ray) is now clearer and LG welcomes this as it will provide confidence for the end user, to the retailers and overall the home entertainment market."
"Overall LG is still excited about the future of this market, LG has always set out to lead high definition players and will continue to do so with more technology evolutions and hybrids which will launch in due course."
Toshiba might be dumping the format, but it appears LG is still very much a firm believer
Does everyone know the war is officially over but us? {Engadget HD}
Feb 19th 2008 2:38AM ProfWho takes c*ck from behind.
Does everyone know the war is officially over but us? {Engadget HD}
Feb 19th 2008 2:37AM "HD-DVD is getting its ass handed to it in Asia"
So Asia = Japan? Do you even know what Asia means? It includes India and China, so Blu-Ray market share is 0.00000000000000001% overall.
Blu-Ray is getting its ass handed to it by VideoCD in Asia.
