It's true, currently blueray is outselling hd-dvd 3-1 only because of the ps3 and this format war is gonna end very soon.ballerking
He's right. HD-DVD is being out sold disc to disc. The HD-DVD players, i have heard, are starting to pick up, but only b/c there are more types (variation) of players.
This war should close soon, but there won't be a clear "winner"for years and by that time they both may be dead.
The HD-DVD players, i have heard, are starting to pick up, but only b/c there are more types (variation) of players.
What variation? You have last year's models and this year's models from Toshiba (a total of 4), an RCA deck that's just a rebranded ToshibaHD-A1,(360 drive.doesn't count as it's not a standalone product) Sony(3 players, including announced and PS3), Pioneer, Panasonic, Samsung (2 players, new one announced), LG, and Sharp So right there it's essentially 2-1
This war should close soon, but there won't be a clear "winner"for years and by that time they both may be dead.
Blu-Ray isn't going to die. The studios and the hardware manufacturers all want to move to it. Studios for copy protection and hardware because they don't make crap on DVD players. It'll be a slow osmosis, but in the next 3 years, right about the time BR breaks the $250 mark, they're just going to stop making standard DVD players. Eventually people replacing their cheap chinese crap decks that died on them will just pick up a BR player. Sure DVD isn't going anywhere in the next decade, but there will be a slow/steady changeover. HD-DVD fans will quote the crap Chinese decks that are coming, too bad the retailers will refuse to carry them. Too many have been burned by the Apexes and Cyberhomes of this world, and it's going to be a long time before BR even considers licensing to those people after the cut the rug out of DVD profitability. What Shinco and the rest really wanted the deal for was to create a China-exclusive HD disc format that will carry heavily compressed 720p video with the backing of the Chinese government, and like all China-exclusive video formats, it'll bomb hard because everyone buys bootlegs there.
i dont see the mass majority of people buying a blue ray until theres a good amount of 1080p TVs among the people, people are barely going into 720p sets, its gonna take some time.
I know we are talking about America here, but Blu-Ray pretty much won out in Japan. If I remember the numbers correctly it was like 95% Blu-Ray and 5% HD-DVD in Japan (I could be wrong on those number though :P ). So it wouldn't surprise me if Blu-Ray wins here. Guess we will have to see.
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