Is the "HD DVD" going out like the Betha Max and is "Blu-Ray" the new VHS?

Question

Is the "HD DVD" going out like the Betha Max and is "Blu-Ray" the new VHS?

Answer 1

HD DVD is likely going to bottom out soon. Blu-Ray will probably survive until the next advanced version of storage device comes out. I give it 10 years max.

Answer 2

Probably. Unless some of the other major studios go against Warner who just signed on to Blu-Ray today, HD-DVD is history. By the way Sony had Beta-Max not Betha.

Answer 3

As of Fridays announcement that Warner would make only BD movies after May '08 the winner of the war has been declared. I thought it might take a year for it to happen but now I think it will be VERY soon.

HD DVD was hit hard and is scrambling to recover. They were surprised by Warners move to back BD and even cancelled the HD DVD event at this years CES.

http://www.cepro.com/article/warner_bros...

Warner chose to do this because Blu-Rays have outsold HD DVDs 2-1.

Many people beleive that this spells the end of HD DVD and a win for BD, me among them

http://www.avtruths.com/blurayvshddvd.ht...

Furthermore Paramount has a clause in their contract allowing them to pull out of HD DVD in the event that Warner went Blu-Ray exclusive. Well since that happened expect Paramount (and of course Dreamworks) to switch to BD. This leaves only Universal for HD DVD. (Giving BD about 85% of the movies being made in Hollywood.)

I know that HD DVD will fight back. Expect great deals and free offers from HD DVD. But realistically the war is over.

Ultimately the only way for consumers to win is for one of them to win so that all of the studios will make HD movies in a format accessable to everyone. I also expect that once Blu-Ray wins (or HD DVD if that happens) you will see second and third tier manufacturers to make players driving the price to $100 by 2009-1010. Funai just announce one for $299.

They have to make this happen or the window is going to close and internet HD movies are going to take over before BD has a chance to flourish. LG and Netflick have already announced an internet movie device and VUDU's machine is already available.

Buy now or buy later but buy Blu-Ray.

Answer 4

It would certainly appear.  With Warner's defection, the only studios publishing HD-DVD titles after May 2008 are Universal and Dreamworks.  This is probably a deathblow for the format.