Originally Posted by
sherwood
and i still believe that the greatest enemy to blu-ray AND HD-DVD is well, blu-ray, it's a self destroying process as the only things that will be able to hold all these god damned movies are going to be inexpensive blu-ray discs, which in a few years should be up to 100gigs and about a buck a peice.
which sucks so bad because Blu-Ray is about to lose the battle before it begins, seeing as sony basically tripped on it's own feet by selling most of it's large allies in the war those pesky recall batteries.
and then theres the whole thing about needing their system to play them on (that or a $800+ player) and the fact that they don't realize they are about to end up with something thats going to be about as useful as a MD walkman in a few years.
Are you saying HD-DVD is going to die off? Not sure I follow your post correctly.
Blu Ray I can see dying off rather quickly simply because HD-DVD has had a presence in the market for a year or so now and has affordable players (relativley). Because of that presence the likleyhood that HD players will be affordable to all in the near future is much higher.
Then you have the shelves to look at for discs...I have yet to see a BluRay disc on the shelf, but I can go to a dozen stores and find HD discs with many titles.
Another issue as you pointed out is that Sony has a streak of losing formats beginning with Beta in the late 70s early 80s, Atrac, MD, memory stick and the list goes on.
It is going to be interesting to see how this battle plays out and what companies invest in which format. So far if you look at the backers for each it does look like HD-DVD has a majority backing with movie studios.