Blu-Ray Won (x2)
- February 14, 2008 - 3:42am
- Mood: Sleepy
- Playing: Puzzle Pirates
- Listening: The Faint - Symptom Finger
- Reading: News articles
- Drinking: water
- Eating: CHEERIOS!
We all know that HD-DVD was dealt a heavy blow when Warner Brothers announced exclusive support of Blu-Ray as its high definition format for DVDs. While the sales of HD-DVDs did increase after the WB announcement it's a pretty safe bet to say that was a side effect of dramatic price cuts in the HD-DVD players. The format has seen more announcements recently from smaller studios and companies saying that they're dropping it in favour of Blu-Ray.
Well it's not getting any better for HD-DVD... In an article on PopSci.com yesterday it's mentioned that Netflix and Best Buy have "also declared HD-DVD dead to them". The article makes mention of the common sense factor the HD-DVD camp has seemingly missed... In a format competition there will be a loser. Blu-Ray is backed by over 170 companies to HD-DVD's 10. What's even worse for HD-DVD is that Blu-Ray is locked in as a permanent fixture because of the PS3. Blu-Ray has the games market, HD-DVD might as well just call it quits at this point.
Sony lost last time in the VHS vs Beta Max battle, they did their homework and came out with not only a superior format (check out BluRayDisc.com for specifics), but they have a larger support base and inroads to several markets.
And that's your geeky news for today.
Aside from all that, could everyone do me a favour? Swing on over to optimus's user page and say hi. He's lonely. :P
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Also: You missed a 'p' on the http:// of that link :B
And! Already said hi to Optimus
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Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra
Keep your eyes peeled for the average gamers.
Nothing's broken, it's just functioning differently.
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