HD DVD vs. Blue Ray SETTLED?

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so with Wal-Mart, Netflix only carrying Blue Ray and Toshiba announcing that they will no longer manufacture HD DVD products does this mean that Sony has won the High Def war?

OT Mac Pros should include a Blue Ray burner.
 
About bloody time is all I have to say... It is going to be particularly nice when I can have a Blu-Ray burner sitting in my Mac Pro burning away footage to its heart's content. This is THE development that solid-state shooting has needed - archiving DVCPRO-HD on harddrives has always made me a little twitchy.
 
Glad I invested in a Blu-ray player! It is about time too haha. I'm hoping to see a drop in Blu-ray burner prices.

-Kegan
 
Barry_Green said:
No, it means that Blu Ray has "won" it.
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ha You said it Barry Blue Ray has won, I wonder how Microsoft is gonna handle this with the last two studios supporting HD-DVD now adopting Blue Ray
when I said sony won I meant sony's proprietary format :D
yeah prices should drop, BR burners are like $450 at videoguys (wow 25gig discs)
I'm waiting on my tax return to get me a Mac Pro but no HD burner kinda sucks for a $3K+ computer ;(
 
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Blu-Ray is not Sony's proprietary format though. Sony led the development, but they're partners in the Blu-Ray standard along with companies like Apple, Dell, Hitachi, Panasonic, LG, Mitsubishi, Pioneer, Phillips, Samsung, Sharp, TDK, Thomson, and more.
 
first off I'm glad we have blu ray as the winner, now things can go forward faster.

I'm also thinking, that HD-DVD is probably gonna stick around, but we're probably mostly gonna see it in PC gaming, software, etc...

- Derrick
 
David Jimerson said:
does this mean that Sony has won the High Def war?
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Hi-Def optical disc is a rather small part of HD.
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But it had everything to do with the "High Def war".

I'm just glad that it is finally over. Not sure if that will make it take off any quicker since many (smaller) TVs and portable devices don't benefit from it. But at least there will now be a standard delivery format
 
There was never a "Hi-Def war." Only over optical disc. And there, it's about manufacturing process, not codecs or formats.
 
Totally agree, just looked clear that original poster was referring to bluray vs hddvd. Most of the specs were about the same, so it was a stupid war to begin with.
 
How long do you think before the market really begins to drop the price on burners and media?
 
HVXOU said:
How long do you think before the market really begins to drop the price on burners and media?
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soon. i was in blockbuster the other day and they had a decent blu-ray rental section. that's a good sign. i bet by the end of the year, players will be comparable to dvd player prices and movies will drop to half of what they cost now.
 
Barry_Green said:
Blu-Ray is not Sony's proprietary format though. Sony led the development, but they're partners in the Blu-Ray standard along with companies like Apple, Dell, Hitachi, Panasonic, LG, Mitsubishi, Pioneer, Phillips, Samsung, Sharp, TDK, Thomson, and more.
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Barry,

We want to see the HVX Bootcamp in Blueray!!!

:)
 
cheezweezl said:
soon. i was in blockbuster the other day and they had a decent blu-ray rental section. that's a good sign. i bet by the end of the year, players will be comparable to dvd player prices and movies will drop to half of what they cost now.
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Don't count on it.
 
The thing is the companies producing the players will be competing against each other to get their products to market.

We only had one format for DVD when it all shook out (rather quickly I might add) and it didn't keep prices for players high.

Remember the first DVD players were priced, at least from today's perspective, at a ridiculous level. Something like $1000 and up.

To see that we can get a Blu-ray player for under $400 and maybe even $300 is impressive compared to the time it took for DVD players to come down.

We won't have chinese Blu-ray players for $50 at Wal-mart...yet, but we will have sub$300 players by Christmas. Maybe even down to $250 and those will likely be 2.0 versions with all the interactivity that HD-DVD had from the start.

As for the movies...agreed. The prices are WAY too high. $30 for a BD flick I can get in almost as good quality on DVD for, what, $10-$15?

BTW, I only buy BD as bargains. Picked up the first two Pirates, T2, Dirty Dancing (for my wife...no. really) and Bridge to Terabithia for $15 each at Christmas. I sure as hell won't be paying $30 for a flick unless it's the massive, no-hold-barred multi-disc set of some great film.

Ok. I've said enough.


ian
 
The economies of scale between DVD and Blu-Ray are very different. Anyone with a TV can hook up a DVD player and get most of its benefit, and everyone has a TV.

Blu-Ray makes no sense unless you can take advantage of it, and of the less than 15% of households (in the US; less in other places) with HDTVs, a good chunk of those don't have HDMI and thus can't use Blu-Ray (or HD-DVD) for its full benefit. New TVs are needed.

So, it will continue to be a niche market for some time, and prices stay up there in niche markets. Blu-Ray player prices the same as DVD player prices? Not any time soon.
 
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