Vista - RE: New HD DVD Format

I think studios are getting frustrated at the whole thing.

Without turning this into a format debate, I see the advantage(s) of HD-DVD
but I can also certainly see that the outlook looks more positive for BD;
Backing from studios, hardware manufacturers (in both CE and Computing) as
well as the capacity advantages will do it for BD IMO. But sadly I think
we'll see a slugging between the two in the short term.


"DCR" wrote:

> According to today's Business Day section of The New York Times,
> at CES next Tuesday, Warner Bros. (div. of Time Warner) will introduce
> a new high definition DVD disk format called Total HD disc that can
> play both Blu-ray and HD DVD.
>
>
>

"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I think studios are getting frustrated at the whole thing.
>
> Without turning this into a format debate, I see the advantage(s) of
> HD-DVD
> but I can also certainly see that the outlook looks more positive for BD;
> Backing from studios, hardware manufacturers (in both CE and Computing) as
> well as the capacity advantages will do it for BD IMO. But sadly I think
> we'll see a slugging between the two in the short term.

HD DVD has a very large lead in sales compared to Blu-ray, but not enough
for it to become the standard at least not yet.

It looks like dual-players are what we're going to have to put up with for
the time being. At least they're not far off now. It's just a shame about
the price.

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On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:29:33 -0000, Paul Smith
<Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote:

> HD DVD has a very large lead in sales compared to Blu-ray, but not
> enough for it to become the standard at least not yet.
>


I don't think there is a large lead anymore, Amazon sales rank shows
Blu-Ray very close in sales rank to HD-DVD. BD camp have acomplished in
2 months, what HD-DVD has taken a year todo. Within 6 months, BD sales
will dwarf HD-DVD. In 2 years, HD-DVD will be forgotten laserdisc of the
21st centuary.

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