Comments on: Publishers say screw it, choose both in HD DVD vs Blu-ray war

By: jaime

jaime — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:06:43 +0000

The only reason why universal and paramount still support HDDVD is because they need to sold their HDDVD movies already produced.
They wont go to BLURAY, until sold out their HDDVD movies, even retailers would angry if this go to quickly, thats the reason warner still support HDDVD for the next 4 months, they have HDDVD stock need to sell.
Also thats the reason why HDDVD players and movies start drop in price, and 50% off promotions, its a clearance sale.
BLURAY will be the only format for sale this christmas

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:34:23 +0000

It is interesting that all the “dual” format HD burner drives for PCs will read but not burn HD-DVD disks. Another interesting thing is that they read and burn Blu-ray disks at high speed (4x or 6x) while perform slower on their read-only function of HD-DVD.

These new “dual format” burners (which don’t burn HD-DVD disks) are obviously made with Blu-ray primary usage in mind. You can watch movies and burn your data to Blu-ray disks for storage.

The HD-DVD read-only function seems to be an add-on to allow for the hold-out by Paramount and Universal in releasing their films in Blu-ray as well.

Wow! Two companies forcing the PC industry to create drives (dual format Blu-ray/HD-DVD) that will accomodate them for movie watching purposes alone! I wonder how much this is costing us in drive pricing.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:42:54 +0000

You’re a complete idiot.
I Am Legend is Warner’s LAST HD DVD title for day and date release.
From that point on, all their day and date releases are Blu-ray exclusive.
That will include Speed Racer, 10,000 BC, The Dark Knight and Harry Potter 6.

Universal only has Wilson’s War penned for HD DVD release.

Content providers have picked sides. Paramount/Dreamworks was neutral and they chose HD DVD.
Time Warner (HBO, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros) were neutral and they have chosen Blu-ray.

I’ve never seen such a load of bollocks.

By: StareClips.com

StareClips.com — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:08:53 +0000

Yeah.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:20:54 +0000

One factor that I have seen no one publish is the total number of disks being manufactured and sold in each format.

Blu-ray is selling more movies but is also selling blu-ray disks in the form of PS3 games. When you add in computer recordable disks as well (blu-ray is beating the pants off of HD-DVD in PCs) the results should be interesting.

The Blu-ray firms that back the format made a wise choice. They are posting great sales without relying solely on movies.

My area of expertise is in computing. The reason Blu-ray is winning in this field is very simple – higher capacity, higher read/write speeds, and scratch resistance. Unfortunately, you can only find 1x HD-DVD recorders and disks which is killing the format for PCs (1x or 36 Mbps is over 4 times as slow as a 16x or 176 Mbps DVD player). Meanwhile Blu-ray is selling 4x disks (144 Mbps) and 6x (216 Mbps) recorders already.

P.S. first comment by Janny “…at the end of last year, HD-DVD had a strong hold on the market.” WHAT? HD-DVD only managed to match Blu-ray stand-alone player sales at the end of the year in the United States alone. Blu-ray was still selling more movie disks (not counting Blu-ray games, PS3s and Blu-ray PC media which also sold more).

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:21:32 +0000

sparkfarmer: That’s because Blu-Ray owners are BUYING movies, while HD-DVD owners don’t want to invest themselves more deeply in the format.

By: sparkfarmer

sparkfarmer — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:30:23 +0000

at my local video store their blue-ray section 3 times the videos their hd-dvd section has. But friday and saturday their are only 3 or 4 hd-dvd`s left on the shelf! so i ask and are told you should have gone blue ray, only 7 of them are rented.

By: sparkfarmer

sparkfarmer — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:30:02 +0000

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:57:32 +0000

“sales figures from Amazon.com aren’t included”

Considering how well HD DVD hardwares sells on Amazon it’s just incredible that the world’s 2nd largest retailer’s numbers are excluded.

How can anyone make much of numbers which have such a glaring hole in them?

By: benq

benq — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:52:40 +0000

i think what this title was getting a is why should the consumer lose out on any formatt?
should the studios just produce in both! why not ?there would be no extra cost because there will be revenue from hd dvd and bluray.
high def video would take off a lot quicker if there was no choice to make.