Toshiba concedes defeat to Sony in DVD format war ! Blu Ray Wins !?

Question

Toshiba concedes defeat to Sony in DVD format war

Ha Ha ! Blu Ray Wins :) Unlucky HD . Good News for Bly Ray Fans . :)

Answer 1

i saw it coming a mile away, i dont understand why some of you stubborn individuals won't admit you made the wrong decision with going hd-dvd.  i did my research and made the conclusion that blu ray had too many advantages over hddvd, to me, it was simple.  wait, i know why some of you won't let up, you just hate Sony under the false assumption that they overprice, you know, you get what you pay for and Sony is a major player in high quality electronics no matter how you cut it.  and don't be fooled, the reason for hd-dvd being less expensive is mainly bc they were forced into it, they had to get the product out there, its despiration.

Answer 2

not so fast bucky I remember this samrthing happening with VHS versus Bata and the consumer learned later that Beta was superior . We had both machines. Beta was better. For that reason I didnt spend money on either. But whats wrong with having a choice. make both

Answer 3

Blu Ray was always going to win as Sony had the backing of the film industry sorry for those of you that went the other way but you should have waited I am afraid.

What has really surprised me is the speed of the decommissioning really fast by the end of March that is really unusual but they will retain tech support for the duration of warranties.

Answer 4

it's a pity-i have both formats (ps3 and toshiba HD-E1 hd player) and as far as DVD's go the tosh walks all over the sony which is essentially a games machine. still there had to be a winner i suppose-the upside is that in a few months hd-dvd films will cost next to nothing.

Answer 5

And for us PS3 owners...yay :-)

Answer 6

Not good news for free software fans as Blu-Ray has the highest levels of DRM known to mankind!

Answer 7

I still won't buy one until Sony reduces the d**n prices!! Blue Ray was the better technology but Sony always overprices all their products!!

Answer 8

Just like the Betamax v VHS contest, the better quality format loses.. HD image quality is by and large dictated by its bit-rate, MPEG2, used by Blu-Ray, is an ancient (in relative terms) video codec. VC-1, used by HD DVD is two to three times more efficient  than MPEG2, and thus far it seems to be apparent that Blu-ray’s smaller disc sizes are only exacerbating this inefficiency.

Until Blu-ray either adopts VC-1 as their sole video codec or releases Blu-ray movies on 50GB discs, it’s very unlikely that Blu-ray’s image quality will even match, much less surpass that of HD-DVD’s.

HD-DVD is simply delivering higher bit-rates and overall better image quality, than Blu-ray is capable of with the combination of MPEG2 and 25GB Blu-ray discs.

In theory with 50GB discs Blu-ray could greatly improve its video quality even with MPEG2, but again until it’s on shelves and in players it’s just a theory.

Answer 9

This was already decided last year.  I read an article about how it was actually the p**n industry that had the biggest effect on the DVD market.  As they went with Blu Ray it was a forgone conclusion that HD DVD was for the skip.

Answer 10

Ha ha ha ha..........this is getting ridiculous....just when I finally get something good, it's extinct and the new stuff is so expensive.  Technology is changing too fast.  I can't afford to keep up anymore.

Stop the world....I wanna get off.