Blu Ray Wins

[smurf80]

It appears Blu Ray has won the format war with Toshiba apparently pulling out of HD-DVD.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,...5014239,00.html

[Beer Baron]

that will be a good thing if it pans out. competing formats was not good for anybody...

[Owgasm]

I knew it would have won

The quality.

But... HD-DVD never seen.

[kralster]

They both have the same potential for quality.

Blu-rays saving grace is the ps3. Standalone players for both formats are yet to really take off. It's good though if hd dvd finishes up, it'll make it a lot easier to start a hd movie collection.

[madbung]

Blue ray has a large advantage with it's storage capacity over hd....can't quote the figures from memory. But there is a fair difference between the 2. Picture quality ect much of a muchness, but when it comes to hd quality movies and sound that extra storage capacity made all the difference for movie studios ect when it came time to sign partnership agreements ect.

Edited February 18, 2008 by madbung

[RXHVN]

i just bought a hd dvd player, but lucky i have a ps3 also. I would prefer hd though..

[skybarge]

It's about time finally good to have a winner

Heard that Blu-ray has offered Toshiba/Microsoft a cheaper buy-in according to www.Gizmodo.com and there are rumours that the new Xbox360 model will come with a blu-ray based rom drive :S

yeah you are right about the storage, picture quality wise they are almost equal, with HD-dvd having a few extras like Picture in picture and some other options, but these are going to be included in the Blu-ray 2.0 update which I think has already been put out

[Owgasm]

So.. rxhvn.. why would you prefer HD?

[LBR33]

Heard that Blu-ray has offered Toshiba/Microsoft a cheaper buy-in according to www.Gizmodo.com and there are rumours that the new Xbox360 model will come with a blu-ray based rom drive :S

lol.....imagine that sony making profit on all the 360's sold

[KamikazeR33]

hd dvd - 30gb

blu ray dvd - 60gb

[SKYLVIA]

I think its

HD - 15

BR - 25

[smurf80]

Well guys its official Toshiba has pulled the pin on HD-DVD. Might be a good time to pick up one of those players cheap to upscale all your regular DVD's......

[LBR33]

I think its

HD - 15

BR - 25

Actually its

HD-DVD

15 GB (single layer)

30 GB (dual layer)

Blu-Ray

25 GB (single layer)

50 GB (dual layer)

[SKYLVIA]

Actually its

HD-DVD

15 GB (single layer)

30 GB (dual layer)

Blu-Ray

25 GB (single layer)

50 GB (dual layer)

Yeah... my post was in regards to single layered discs...

[Triptych]

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.....

Seriously if you didn't see the world turning blu even before the war was over you had to be blind. The only place that HD DVD was actually doing rather well was in the U.S from memory. PS3 would have been a huge advatage for BD because every PS3 is a BD Player sold. There was some shakey ground with PS3 sales but they have panned out nicely.

As one of my friends said "If toshiba ever make BD Players I am going to buy one just to rub their noses in it". Simple fact is they just wanted to cause consumer confusion for the last few months and rake in some more money while doing it. BD was in for the long haul no matter what.

[Marco-R34GTT]

The DVD player at home died so we went to Harvey Norman to buy a new one... They didn't have any Blu-ray as of yet, and the only current 'next gen' (lol) DVD player they had was a Toshi HD DVD, it was $1099 slashed to $299, my mum was sooo keen to get it... However I smelt a fish which was later confirmed by a BBC report that there was a 'rumor' that Toshi was going to end production and hence end the format war... Mum took it back the next day... The afternoon she took it back, the announcement became official...

Shifty pricks fooling mums.... Ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Fcking asshats...

[skybarge]

lol.....imagine that sony making profit on all the 360's sold

haha never thought of it that way

oh yeah Paramount moved over this morning, the final studio to do so

[babyskyline]

bout time someone won. Now i dont have to decide which one to get

Thought it was a little wierd that they suddenly dropped the price of the HD DVD players.

Cant say ill be rushing out to buy blu ray movies....who wants to pay nearly $40 a movie???