How much longer till Blu-Ray closes in on HDDVD for the kill?

Question

When will Blu-Ray give HDDVD the Coup de grace. Blu Ray is outselling HDDVD 2:1 and Warner Bros. has just stated that they will exclusively release their movies on Blu-Ray, on top of that the price of the PS3 has gone down, and they are starting to put out quality games. I hope it won't be long because there are some movies exclusively on HDDVD like Batman Begins, Harsh Times, Eastern Promises, and Transformers that I would like on Blu Ray, but refuse to get on DVD or buy and HDDVD player to help support Sony.

Answer 1

No one knows for sure, but it looks like Blu-Ray is winning.  There was a report on the internet today that said Universal Studios might go to Blu-Ray.  In another story on the internet, Microsoft said they too may support Blu-Ray with the Xbox 360.  In my opinion, there should be a winner before next Christmas.  The momentum is building for Blu-Ray, but Toshiba is not going to give up easily with their HD-DVD format.

Answer 2

Buying an HD DVD player won't help Sony ... they are made by Toshiba. Buying Blu-ray helps Sony -- originators of the "s***w the consumer" rootkit, BD+ and other "consumer friendly" innovations.

EDIT

If you had written a grammatical sentence your bias would have been clearer  and I wouldn't have bothered answering!

Answer 3

Probably at least another year.  (next Holiday season).  

I think HD-DVD is going to have to pull out all the stops this year.  I was hoping HD-DVD would win, but there is no chance now.   The only hope left now for HD-DVD is to maybe move more into the Computer market.  Make HD-DVD burns affordable (and fast) so people well want them in there Computers.  (to burn home movies, and so forth).  

But even this I don't think well save them now.  Maybe if there is some BIG feature that they can come up with that everybody wants?

But still most of the HD-DVD movies that need to come out on Blu-ray won't come out at least until fall if not later.

Answer 4

It depends, HD-DVD has some big money behind it (Microsoft & Toshiba) so It's dead when they decide to abandon it, or when retailers decide to stop carrying it and they are forced to give up. About six month is my guess.

Answer 5

Oh boy - only 6 months or so until we're living in full blown SonyWorld where entertainment products are all the best because Sony says they are and we're getting far more value for our hard earned dollars because there are no more inferior products on the market place to detract from Sony's monopolistic empire.

I can't wait to ask the question in a couple of years: "Wow, doesn't everyone think SonyWorld is so much better than the free market entertainment industry of the past era?"

Answer 6

Before Warner Bros. Studios made their anouncement, Blu-ray Discs were outselling HD-DVD 3 to 1.  The following weekend that number spiked to over 20 to 1.  The people have decided.  The war is over.  Blu-ray won.

Also, Universal Studios "exclusitivity" clause for HD-DVD has expired, so they're free to make Blu-ray Discs, too.  That just leaves Paramount backing HD-DVD and their "escape-clause" dictated that if Warner went Blu-exclusive, they could back out too.

Answer 7

Actually the Blu-Ray Disc Association considers the war over and have changed their focus from pushing BD over HD DVD to educating consumers on the differences between BD and DVD.

Here is the article.

http://www.twice.com/article/CA6518245.h...

Answer 8

3-4 months

Answer 9

they said there making movies on HD-DVD till sometime in

may.then they plan to releases all major titles on HD-DVD to

blu-ray.

Answer 10

it wont be long, anyone who has any sense could see it coming.  the people who didnt anchored their argument on the vhs vs. beta war saying it was going to happen all over again,  wrong.  the difference here is that blu ray holds twice as much data on the same size platform. opening the door for publishers to (in essence) put as much content as they want on one disk, good bye dual disk movies.  thats the most important point, give the buyer as much incentive to buy a movie with all its features and whatnot instead of pirating it.  just think of the all those expensive tv series sets that have about 30 disks you have to shuffle through, now imagine that same thing on...what.... 5 or 10 disks?