Death of HD DVD (at last)

[Cron-Z]

Just like back in the BETAMax-VHS war, the winner was the one that the porn industry sided with (the two biggest porn publishers have sided with BluRay in the last 16 months). …

BluRay didn’t win because of the PS3. Even though the PS3 helped, BluRay won because more movie publishers, hardware manufactuers, and stores supported BluRay then HD-DVD. This resulted the market to have more options and selection on the BluRay side (players and movies) than on the HD-DVD side. More options = more sales = better business = bigger chance of survival.

[chrisoff]

@Tyler

Suck it up and buy a PC, console fanbois… ya just might larn summthin along the way

Meh. I was a PC gamer for years, then I decided to have fun.

Actually I’m not bothered by the console wars, by the one that has the games you want to play on it. Simple as that.

[chrisoff]

@Cron-Z

BluRay didn’t win because of the PS3. Even though the PS3 helped, BluRay won because more movie publishers, hardware manufactuers, and stores supported BluRay then HD-DVD. This resulted the market to have more options and selection on the BluRay side (players and movies) than on the HD-DVD side. More options = more sales = better business = bigger chance of survival.

Chicken and egg. What came first? The movie studios siding with Blu Ray to increase sales of the players or the increased sales of the players brought by millions of PS3s appearing in homes leading to the studios choosing Blu Ray. I say the egg came first.

[jkwest]

didn’t I tell you guys months ago who was going to win?!

sheesh!!

[Azalin]

@chrisoff

@Cron-Z

BluRay didn’t win because of the PS3. Even though the PS3 helped, BluRay won because more movie publishers, hardware manufactuers, and stores supported BluRay then HD-DVD. This resulted the market to have more options and selection on the BluRay side (players and movies) than on the HD-DVD side. More options = more sales = better business = bigger chance of survival.

Chicken and egg. What came first? The movie studios siding with Blu Ray to increase sales of the players or the increased sales of the players brought by millions of PS3s appearing in homes leading to the studios choosing Blu Ray. I say the egg came first.

At the end of the day, it was better marketing strategy from Blu-ray camp than HD DVD camp. Blu-ray disks outselling HD DVD disks at least 2:1 for quite a while was a winning stats, which won studios… then hardware stores… It all crumbled into place. PS3 playing Blu-ray was a factor, but not the winning factor.

[Brian_Lee]

For any interested in a side by side of DVD, HDDVD and Blu-Ray:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-13817_7-6462511-2.html?tag=nav

At the end of the day, the Blu-Ray technology does seem notably better than HDDVD in terms of storage capacity. That will mean a greater chance for cramming more stuff onto one disc, and would be in my mind, a good reason that format won out. My computer has a combo player and having watched both types they are each much clearer than original DVDs. It will be interesting to see where studio’s take all this extra detail and storage space with their films in the near future. Guess I’ll have to buy Star Wars all over again huh? LOL

[Azalin]

OK but I’ll say it again… technological superiority is NOT was makes a product win all the time. Blu-ray did not win because of this, and VHS, which was inferior to Betamax in the 80s still beat Betamax.

It’s really about marketing and being able to reach the mass, which HD DVD camp failed at doing as well as Blu-ray camp.

By the way, the iPod is inferior technically to many other MP3 players out there. But its look, and easy of use, made it a winner.

Now, is Vista and XP on 90% of computers because it is “better” than Mac OS or Linux Ubuntu? Hehe.

[Tyler]

@Azalin

Now, is Vista and XP on 90% of computers because it is “better” than Mac OS or Linux Ubuntu? Hehe.

psshhhhh!

The Galactic Empire ruled more than 90% of the known galaxy far, far away without good marketing…
It’s all about superior force…and knowing when to cave in to that superior force, at least, according to AT&T

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@Azalin

Now, is Vista and XP on 90% of computers because it is “better” than Mac OS or Linux Ubuntu? Hehe.

Certainly easier to use than Ubuntu. The amount of frickin hassle I’ve had trying to update drivers once I put Ubuntu on my laptop.

Don’t even get me started on Mac OS. Had to use it for a morning as I was having network issues on my own computer at work and we had a mac nearby for testing. Horrible piece of rubbish.