Why fight with this much backing Blu-Ray has already beat HD DVD

Well lets put aside that fact the blu-ray can hold 50 gigs verse the HD DVD only holding 30 gigs.  Lets put aside that Blu-ray out sell HD DVD 7 or 9 to 1.  And look at what companies are backing both.

Oh wait I have a link.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128205-page,1/article.html

Which companies back Blu-ray Disc?

The Blu-ray Disc format is governed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, whose members include such consumer electronics giants as Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric, Philips Electronics, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson. The DVD Forum, which manages the current DVD format, is overseeing the course of HD DVD; Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba are all backing the HD DVD format.

Backing Blu-ray are seven of the eight major movie studios: Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers. Of that group, only Paramount and Warner are actively supporting both Blu-ray Disc and competitor HD DVD. (Also in HD DVD's corner is Universal Studios, the lone major studio not supporting Blu-ray.)

On the gaming front, Sony's high-profile PlayStation 3 console integrates a Blu-ray Disc drive, for use with both PS3 games produced on Blu-ray Disc media and Blu-ray Disc movies.

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Ok lets get this straight,  HD DVD has Microsoft, Intell and Toshiba.  While the Blu-Ray is backed by seven of the eight major movie studios: Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers. Of that group, only Paramount and Warner are actively supporting both Blu-ray Disc and competitor HD DVD.

Oh wait I did say 7 out of 8 major film companies are supporting Blu-Ray.  Who's the 8th?  Universal Studios

By support, sales, storage size the Blu-Ray wins.  Thank you.

Well lets put aside that fact the blu-ray can hold 50 gigs verse the HD DVD only holding 30 gigs. Lets put aside that Blu-ray out sell HD DVD 7 or 9 to 1. And look at what companies are backing both.

Oh wait I have a link.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128205-page,1/article.html

Which companies back Blu-ray Disc?

The Blu-ray Disc format is governed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, whose members include such consumer electronics giants as Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric, Philips Electronics, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson. The DVD Forum, which manages the current DVD format, is overseeing the course of HD DVD; Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba are all backing the HD DVD format.

Backing Blu-ray are seven of the eight major movie studios: Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers. Of that group, only Paramount and Warner are actively supporting both Blu-ray Disc and competitor HD DVD. (Also in HD DVD's corner is Universal Studios, the lone major studio not supporting Blu-ray.)

On the gaming front, Sony's high-profile PlayStation 3 console integrates a Blu-ray Disc drive, for use with both PS3 games produced on Blu-ray Disc media and Blu-ray Disc movies.

 

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Ok lets get this straight, HD DVD has Microsoft, Intell and Toshiba. While the Blu-Ray is backed by seven of the eight major movie studios: Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers. Of that group, only Paramount and Warner are actively supporting both Blu-ray Disc and competitor HD DVD.

Oh wait I did say 7 out of 8 major film companies are supporting Blu-Ray. Who's the 8th? Universal Studios

 

By support, sales, storage size the Blu-Ray wins. Thank you.

caseypayne69

This was known months ago already.

Panasonic has already stated they feel the format war is over already.  And Blu-Ray outsold HD-DVD for the 3rd month in a row.

No wonder why you don't see hd28guy_basic and Yellow_Rose around here anymore    :lol:

[QUOTE="caseypayne69"]

Well lets put aside that fact the blu-ray can hold 50 gigs verse the HD DVD only holding 30 gigs. Lets put aside that Blu-ray out sell HD DVD 7 or 9 to 1. And look at what companies are backing both.

Oh wait I have a link.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128205-page,1/article.html

Which companies back Blu-ray Disc?

The Blu-ray Disc format is governed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, whose members include such consumer electronics giants as Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric, Philips Electronics, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson. The DVD Forum, which manages the current DVD format, is overseeing the course of HD DVD; Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba are all backing the HD DVD format.

Backing Blu-ray are seven of the eight major movie studios: Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers. Of that group, only Paramount and Warner are actively supporting both Blu-ray Disc and competitor HD DVD. (Also in HD DVD's corner is Universal Studios, the lone major studio not supporting Blu-ray.)

On the gaming front, Sony's high-profile PlayStation 3 console integrates a Blu-ray Disc drive, for use with both PS3 games produced on Blu-ray Disc media and Blu-ray Disc movies.

 

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Ok lets get this straight, HD DVD has Microsoft, Intell and Toshiba. While the Blu-Ray is backed by seven of the eight major movie studios: Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers. Of that group, only Paramount and Warner are actively supporting both Blu-ray Disc and competitor HD DVD.

Oh wait I did say 7 out of 8 major film companies are supporting Blu-Ray. Who's the 8th? Universal Studios

 

By support, sales, storage size the Blu-Ray wins. Thank you.

gigabrowser12

I guess its not but thats why I added the flim company support and sales volume. :)

Who cares? a minor image upgrade on larger tvs...yay for the progress!Zenkuso

Nothing 'minor' about it. It's a pretty big upgrade. I should know. I work for a studio and have actually seen comparisons between 'show print' quality film and Blu-Ray.  

I forgot to add a comparision of companies from the link, or well left some out.

Blu-Ray

Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric, Philips Electronics, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson.

Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Brothers

HD-DVD

Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba

Universal Studios

The company impact I'm sure is the main reason for the sales of Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.  But what happens to consumers that bought HD-DVD's when this war is over?

I feel blu ray and HD DVD would be good ideas for movies.

But for games...I'm waiting for a 1000G hard drive where I dont need the actual game disc in there(maybe just for authenticity verification) and the cosole playing right from the hard drive!!  Like little portable 1000G drives with 10-15 complete games in there.  Now that would be cool8)

[QUOTE="Zenkuso"]Who cares? a minor image upgrade on larger tvs...yay for the progress!TekkenMaster606

Nothing 'minor' about it. It's a pretty big upgrade. I should know. I work for a studio and have actually seen comparisons between 'show print' quality film and Blu-Ray.

I never understand the "it's a minor upgrade crowd".   There's a reason why all the networks are scrambling to upgrade equipment to provide HD content for TV and sports programming.  If the upgrade were minor no one would care.