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Blu-Ray > HD-DVD

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tibor75

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the format "war" might be nearing an end...

Toshiba Defiant After HD DVD Setback: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Toshiba Corp. executives had a tough moment Sunday, when they had to face reporters just two days after its HD DVD movie disc format was dealt a potentially fatal blow by the defection of Warner Bros. Entertainment to a rival technology.
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"It's difficult for me to read the comments of the pundits that HD is dead," said Jodi Sally, vice president of marketing for digital audio and video at Toshiba America Consumer Products. She was speaking at a news conference ahead of the International Consumer Electronics Show, which starts here Monday.
 
The PS3 was a big help to Blu-Ray, imo. While PS3 hasn't done as well as the Wii, people have actually bought one just to play Blu-Ray DVDs on. One guy I know just got a Blu-Ray player for Christmas so he sold his PS3, which seems silly.
If Microsoft would have had HD readily available at 360 launch it may be closer, but releasing PS3 with Blu-Rays does add some advantage.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1052538; said:
Hopefully this is true, so that we don't have a repeat of the Betamax/VHS debacle...
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Interesting analogy, given from what I've heard (I'm too young to experience Betamax), Beta was actually the better technology (the tapes were smaller and better quality - again, just what I've heard)
 
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tibor75;1052735; said:
Interesting analogy, given from what I've heard (I'm too young to experience Betamax), Beta was actually the better technology (the tapes were smaller and better quality - again, just what I've heard)
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they were - my parents had a working Beta machine into the early 90s....
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1052538; said:
Hopefully this is true, so that we don't have a repeat of the Betamax/VHS debacle...
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It will bear out with Blu-Ray winning on the back of the Playstation 3, but I don't think this is comparable to VHS/Beta. I think this is more like Beta vs RCA DiamondVision, or maybe Laserdisc.

The winner of the HD format war gets two or three years, maybe five. Longterm, digital downloads will be the eventual winner, or we'll just get another format once the TV people figure out a way to work in more lines than 1080p.

We'll have something HD(er) with 9.1 surround sound by Christmas, I'm sure.
 
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tibor75;1052735; said:
Interesting analogy, given from what I've heard (I'm too young to experience Betamax), Beta was actually the better technology (the tapes were smaller and better quality - again, just what I've heard)
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The two things that hurt Betamax from what I recall were cost and the fact that Betamax tapes recorded only an hour while VHS recorded two hours.

jwinslow;1052964; said:
:huh: yes, hence the word more.
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PWNED!!11!!
 
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