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[Afro Thunder]

The battle is ending and Sony is getting worst news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4053875.stm

 

[OmniGamer]

Those who read this in either thread in the gaming or OT forum yesterday snub this thread

 

[teiresias]

The battle's hardly ending since none of those are exclusive agreements anyway, just to point that out. Of course they're going to announce HD-DVD support since the format is supposed to have equipment out in the US next year before Blu-Ray stuff is available.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Beta Redux. I have a feeling, in the end, Sony will be supporting blu-ray and no one else.

 

[Vormund]

Probably similar to Mini Disc and Memory stick in terms of support.

 

[Teddman]

I agree, it is decidedly a royal SNUB of the highest order.

 

[DarienA]

WELL THAT ABOUT WRAPS IT UP FOR BLU-RAY!

 

[PhatSaqs]

How's that for a flamebait headline.

BBC News + 1 :lol

 

[SteveMeister]

According to the article:

Universal, Paramount and Warners said they would continue to work with the Blu-ray group, whose members also include Dell, Samsung and Matsushita.

Toshiba and NEC are the only manufacturers behind HD-DVD, while Hitachi, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Zenith are all behind Blu-Ray. And don't discount tens of millions of PS3's, all with blu-ray drives.

So HD-DVD has smaller hardware support, and no studio exclusives. Which format's likely to win again?

 

[Willco]

SELL YOUR PS3s ITS ALL OVER!

 

[dem]

No one wants a new format except some videophiles..
Both are going to FAIL at replacing dvd.



I have no facts to back this up... but Im sure im right.

 

[Willco]

No one wants a new format except some videophiles..
Both are going to FAIL at replacing dvd.



I have no facts to back this up... but Im sure im right.

I support this commentary since I like your avatar.

SELL YOUR HD-TVs, IT'S ALL OVER!

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

No one wants a new format except some videophiles..
Both are going to FAIL at replacing dvd.



I have no facts to back this up... but Im sure im right.

I 100% agree. DVD is the most popular format ever, and they want to destroy the goodwill fostered by that by introducing two new formats that are competing against each other? Both will more than likely fail or at least suffer the same fate as MiniDisc, DAT, SACD and DVDA.

 

[alejob]

IAWTP

There is no need for a new format now.

 

[ohamsie]

DVDs do everything I want video viewing to do at the moment. It has fast forwarding, skipping to certain sections, a menu interface to view extras and tweak the settings, I don't know what new formats could possibly improve upon except better video/sound quality, which are already fine with DVDs in my opinion.

 

[Chony]

After seeing 1080p clips on my friends projector, and then seeing 480p with regular DVD. The difference is night and day, see Terminator 2 Extreme Edition with 1080p on the second disc, it is incredible.

Also check out www.wmvhd.com if your computer is up to snuff, the quality is amazing. That being said, I hope whatever the better format in terms of quality, price, etc. comes out top.

Laters.

 

[CloudNL]

According to the article:



Toshiba and NEC are the only manufacturers behind HD-DVD, while Hitachi, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Zenith are all behind Blu-Ray. And don't discount tens of millions of PS3's, all with blu-ray drives.

So HD-DVD has smaller hardware support, and no studio exclusives. Which format's likely to win again?

This man has it right!

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

To hell with all that, I'm just hoping my 500+ DVD collection doesn't become outdated in a few years!

 

[Phoenix]

This will become the same debacle that has come from the high definition audio CD/DVD formats and similar. No one will have any advantage being first. No one will have any advantage at having better technology.

This will all come down to consumer education, performance, and pricing to license the format/press media/etc. One standard will reach critical mass at one point and then content will migrate over to it. That's how its always been. Not too long ago we had a similar debacle with DVD+R and DVD-R with the DVD+R folks manipulating the spec enough to avoid some of the licensing constraints. As a result, DVD+R was cheaper and it is actually on its way to mass market penetration.

 

[musicplustv]

To hell with all that, I'm just hoping my 500+ DVD collection doesn't become outdated in a few years!

It will. Maybe not a few years, but 5 or so years.

 

[Dan]

As long as I can play my DVDs on new players, I'm fine with an improvement. However, I won't be buying one until a single format is picked. I'm not going to sit around worrying about what discs are what format or spending a ton on two players or one that plays both. Simplicity is a good thing. I'm sick of the companies in charge of content also being in charge of the medium. No good comes of that.

 

[Phoenix]

Just find out which format the porn industry is adopting. If history is any indication, they always pick the winning technologies

An exclusive endorsment from the major porn studios is worth a bagillion more than any of these companies. Time Warner for certain is going dual format and I'm sure that will be the same for all the content companies except for Sony and their MGM holdings

 

[madara]

It will. Maybe not a few years, but 5 or so years.

Hmm large part though would be near impossible get outdated though, so I think we safe. I just cant conceive what 1990 content and under, tv shows etc would benefit from another release. Oh look instead of 6 dvds we have them down to one, buy me again, not.

 

[seanoff]

Its called Hedging folks.

Do both until it looks like a clear winner has emerged.

Same happened with Beta and VHS same will happen here.

And if we are going to use the beta /vhs argument, sony r on the vhs side this time. Beta had one or two companies supprting vhs everybody else. This time sony are in with matsushita, philips etc.

 

[Cooper]

Hmm large part though would be near impossible get outdated though, so I think we safe. I just cant conceive what 1990 content and under, tv shows etc would benefit from another release.

The effective resolution of film is higher than even HDTV resolution. DVD is not even close to being able to show all the detail in a filmed movie, even if the movie is from the 1950s. As for TV shows, they could also benefit if they were shot on film. HDNet, Mark Cuban's channel, sometimes shows HD transfers of Charlie's Angels or Hogan's Heroes. They look very nice. Not to mention all the newer TV shows from ~1999 to now that are also shown in HD.