Blu-ray wins the war

LifelongGamer said:
Not to further enflame the situation, Duncan, but I do not see any attack against you by Eltherza - all he said was he didn't like your journalism and he has a poor view on FM's in general. Nothing personal and that was his opinion.

Perhaps you were just being sensitive?
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I'd prefer it if eltherza would not remain anonymous when levelling this sort of criticism in a public forum. But, yes, I am probably being far too sensitive. I vote we move on.
 
mcleodd said:
I was responding to an anonymous attack on my person by eltherza. I have a right to defend myself and will do so. But I agree there was no need to use profanity in my response. I will remove it.
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It wasn't an attack on your person, it was a my view on your articles. It's very unprofessional of you to result in name calling just because I don't like your articles.
 
LifelongGamer said:
:D

I never understood the Mac vs Pc debate. The BEST system is the one that meets your needs at the price you're happy with. Same as some people prefer BMW's to Mercs. Others like Toyota over Mazda. There's room for everyone :)
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There are arguably *some* advantages for consumers in a format war. But can the two formats coexist? I don't think they can. It's very damaging to the entertainment industry to have two competing formats. It means consumers are likely to sit on the sidelines, costing the industry billions of dollars in potential revenues. The reason the Warner guys picked sides was in an effort to end the format war as quickly as possible. They were worried that digital downloads would have rendered both HD optical formats irrelevant if the war had raged on for another few years.
 
Gooku said:
This format war is over, Blue-ray is the winner.

be advised dony buy wrong format .
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Eh? Its not over until the money-fat corporations sing. You haven't heard the last of HD DVD. Of course, if you'd read the threads you'd know that.
 
timgaul said:
Eh? Its not over until the money-fat corporations sing. You haven't heard the last of HD DVD. Of course, if you'd read the threads you'd know that.
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Well I've read the threads and I can't see anything that really points to a way that HD-DVD can succeed going forward. The Major hollywood studio support is at 7:2.5, and it is likely that Paramount and Dreamworks will abandon HD-DVD shortly. For a movie format, the death knell is lack of content.

The argument that Toshiba, Microsoft and others are launching products that support the format is not a reason for it to succeed. a player is useless if you don't have anything to play on it.
 
mcleodd said:
There are arguably *some* advantages for consumers in a format war. But can the two formats coexist? I don't think they can. It's very damaging to the entertainment industry to have two competing formats. It means consumers are likely to sit on the sidelines, costing the industry billions of dollars in potential revenues. The reason the Warner guys picked sides was in an effort to end the format war as quickly as possible. They were worried that digital downloads would have rendered both HD optical formats irrelevant if the war had raged on for another few years.
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Agreed, seems some time last year consumers were clearly deciding on a format until that payout by Toshiba and their other greedy monopolistic partner to Paramount.
Hopefully they can come to their senses and use the escape clause to move to Blu.
 
I think that by backing blu-ray the movie studios are trying to send us a clear message - Do not pay for our movies.
 
What are the laptop manufacturers going to do with all the machines with the 'losing' format? Who would buy them unless they offered a free swapout.
 
early supporters of Blu-ray will be left out in the cold

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/2242211

Reservoir Hill writes
"Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war, but Betanews is reporting that early supporters of Blu-ray will be left out in the cold when the Blu-ray Disc Association introduces BD Profile 2.0, expected to arrive in October. Unlike HD DVD, which from the very beginning mandated features such as local storage, a second video and audio decoder for picture-in-picture, and a network connection, the companies behind Blu-ray took a different approach to keep costs down. 'We should have waited another year to introduce Blu-ray to the public, but the format war changed the situation,' said one developer. Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES said that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform. Asked if they were concerned about a backlash from early adopters who supported the format from the beginning, one representative said: 'They knew what they were getting into.'"
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Saule said:
What's the main differences between HD DVD and Blu-ray? And is HD DVD different from the ordinary home dvd player? And what dvd drives in pcs and laptops? :confused: :confused: :confused:
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Here are some articles showing the breakdown between the two...

http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/19/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-state-of-the-s-union-s-division/

(scroll down to see the comparison charts)

Some more articles...

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-13817_7-6462511-1.html

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/129058.html

http://www.news.com/FAQ-HD-DVD-vs.-Blu-ray/2100-1041_3-5886956.html

From the little that I have read it seems like HD-DVD would be better for consumers because of less stringent copy-protection. In my experience, copy protection is no deterrent to the pirates and simply an irritation to legitimate buyers.
 
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