What's your opinion on Blueray winning?

Question

With Toshiba out of the picture with HD DVD will blueray dominate or is it to late due to downloads now being very popular

Answer 1

I have mixed feelings.......forcing the consumer with only 1 choice  is never a good thing ??  Is it ??  It's like shutting down every car company in the world except Honda and making everyone buy a Honda.......besides I can record HD movies with my DirecTV anyday, so why should I run out and drop 400 plus bucks for a BD player, 50 bucks for an HDMI cable, and 30 bucks plus for movies ????  Once I can get a BD unit for 150 bucks or Less......I am in.   That's my 2 cents.......

Answer 2

Why, it means the end of p****y as we know it. Microsoft will finally be able to offer software that costs full retail.

HD DVD was gaining momentum because of the porno industry -- what won the VHS vs. Betamax battle. Sony learned something from that episode. Sony went to the Hollywood producers and touted technology that will protect software. BlueRay kicks down to lo-fi quality if it thinks it is being run as a copy.

It's all about software, not hardware. That's what Mac users can't admit. Once MS offers pirate-free software the hardware issues begin to blur.

Answer 3

Blu winning is a good thing.  For this particular media, there is no more confusion to the consumer.  Both Blu-Ray and downloads will coexist for years and years to come.

Answer 4

The important factor wasn't who won, but that somebody finally won.  High definition player and disk sales have been stunted by people taking the wait and see approach.  Now that there is a winner, these people can enter the market.  The more people buying players and movies, allowing for more mass production, the quicker the prices will drop.  When DVD was first introduced, DVD prices were in the $25 - $30.  Now you cannot go to a Wal-Mart without tripping over a $4.99 bin.

Digital distribution has a long way to go.  Right now high def downloads only come in 720p and you do not actually own the movie, but simply rent (XBox Live, iTunes, etc.)  Until they release 1080p, with all the extras, and you own the movie, digital distribution will be at a big disadvantage.  Also, the available bandwidth to distribute high def downloads on a mass scale is not in place.

Personally, I like owning a physical disk and have a hard time owning just a digital copy that I have little control over.

In responce to Blessed, the p**n industry had very little to due with this format war.  First, the number of p**n titles on both formats was very close, but more importantly, very few.  Second, the internet itself has prevented the p**n industry from being a big player in the format war.

As far as HD-DVD being cheaper player wise, there was a big reason - Toshiba was significantly uncutting their costs and losing a lot of money on each player sold.  The thinking was they would make the money back in the long term.  This of course is not going to happen and it has hit Toshiba very hard.  Fortunately for them they have their hands in other pots and will be fine.  If the war actually continued, the competition in hardware within Blu-ray would have outpaced the ability for Toshiba to sustain the loss on hardware sold.

Answer 5

I already have an HD DVD player and probably will buy a Blu-Ray player eventually, but not until the initial shock and price gouging goes away. I figure the price on HD DVDs will drop sustancially in the coming months and I can load up on quality media that preforms at the same rate as a Blu-Ray disc without paying $40 a piece for them. BTW: Sony in bed with Wal-Mart is what crushed HD DVD. It's too bad especially since you're paying way too much for pretty much the exact same thing. Another thing to keep in mind, over a million HD DVD players have been sold (and 600,000 of those are in the U.S.). With Toshiba out, it seems as though the war is over, but I wouldn't be suprised if a small US-based company comes out with a cheaper version to see if they can corner what is left of this market.

Answer 6

I have both blu-ray and hd-dvd so I look at it this way the cheaper format lost but in a couple off weeks i can go get all the HD-DVD movies for cheap instead of 30 bucks for a blu-ray. Just check amazon and ebay the firesale has begun and its only been two days since they declared blu-ray the way to go!

Answer 7

with bluray profile 2.0 finally coming on the market. you should be able to get a profile 1.0 player cheap. not that i would pick one up. most of the 1.0 players are not update-able to 2.0. maybe by Christmas we will see some reasonably priced players that work half as well as the ps3. the ps3 IMHO is the only bluray player worth owning at this time.

Answer 8

bout time!

Answer 9

well i think it was about time...i just fell sorry for the people that went  with HD-DVD...they just wasted their money...anyway just look up ahead...blu-ray is the future an, i can even imagine what Sony will make in 10 or 20 years...something cool as always.....

Maybe in a couple of years that people can sell their HD-DVD stuff and get even more money that the one initially paid for....