What are the reasons why blue-ray won the format war?

Question

What are the reasons why blue-ray won the format war?

Answer 1

Because it is a better format i holds 50 gigs versus the HD DVD Which only holds 30 gigs.

Answer 2

$$$$$$$$$ - Sony pumped in more of it (than Toshiba) to push Blu-Ray to the top.

Answer 3

blu ray is scratch resistant and overall quality is awesome. It literally is almost impossible to scratch the surface of a blu ray try it.

Answer 4

It was all about marketing.

1) Studio Support.

There are 8 major Hollywood Production Studios. On release Blu-Ray had secured support (release of movies) on 5 of those 8. HD DVD had support of 3 of those 8. The story got more lopsided as time passed.

2) Installed base.

People weren't willing to drop $500-$1000 on a HD player that may become obsolete in the next year. So most people just waited it out. The PS3 gave a lot of people a Blu-Ray player without risk. So the PS3 buyers had a Blu-Ray player for free, and gave Blu-Ray a huge install base.

3) NOT technology

Blu-Ray is only now starting to get features that HD DVD had on release (internet features). It does have a larger capacity, but that wasn't the death blow.

Answer 5

honestly because blu-ray sounds better than hd dvd

Answer 6

It's the name "blu-ray".

And the support from major studios like Sony Pictures, Buena Vista, Paramount, 20th Century...etc.

Also the equipment manufacturer that support this format are the big bothers in the industry such as Dell, HP, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung and LG

Answer 7

maybe because its harder to copy

Answer 8

Same reason why VHS beat Betamax and CD beat mini-disk ...better marketing strategy. At least this time sony's not getting the short end of the stick

Answer 9

Well when you look at Blu Ray you have to look at the fact that they had more Movie company support. For a while Hd Dvd had (Paramount. Warner, and Universal) and Blu Ray had (Paramount, Warner, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney to name a few) If you look here http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/studios.ph...  .......Blu Ray had all that support and the only one they didnt have was Universal, I mean of course they do now but if you take all those studios and subtract Universal. Thats what they had and HD DVD had only three of those companys which left 7 companies on the Blu- Ray side.

And despite the fact that Sony used there Playstation 3 as a type of trojian horse for Blu Ray to get in the household was nothing other then complete Brilliance. I mean think about it for every person that bought a PS3  they bought a Blu Ray player. and with 10 million people whoe have bought a PS3 regardless if it was for games, eventualy started to by the Blu Ray format which in turn began to hurt HD DVD sales cause at that time when 10 million Blu Ray players were in peoples households there were only 750,000 HD DVD players in the households. So sony rolled the dice with the PS3 and actually won. But now the problem resides with all the exclusives that they lost to the Xbox 360 as far as games go. But im not gonna get into that.

So you see The Blu Ray format won due to major support not just from Movie studio's , but from us as consumers as well. Its not are fault we bought a Blu Ray, it came in our PS3's which was a smart move. Hats off to Sony.

Answer 10

Movie studios are what decided it.  Tipping the scales by enticing studios to jump off the neutral ship onto Blu's side.  Warner Brothers decision was the deciding factor setting up Blu's win.  It was the boulder that set the avalanche and everyone jumped off HDDVDs ship.

But of course the reasons are underlying.  Many more PS3's were sold than standalone players from both camps combined. PS3 owners not only bought games, but bought plenty and plenty of movies.  Blu had a constant sale ratio of 2:1 over HD DVD.  Sony was the maker of BluRay, and they had their own movie studios to start with Columbia and Sony Pictures whereas the makers of HDDVD were Toshiba who don't have a studio.  Disney was exclusive from the beginning.  Most everyone else was neutral.  HDDVD player addons for 360 didnt catch on really whereas PS3 BluRay drive is incorporated and central to the system.

Space was the logical reason Blu should have won although I think it had much less to do with the win.  25/50GB for Blu and 15/30GB for HDDVD.  You know the world is always looking for the most storage space possible because this is a technological world.  One thing that hurt HDDVD is that although they could get 1080p video resolution on discs fine everytime, they did occasionally have to cut corners in the sound department sacrificing full high definition or uncompressed sound.  BluRay already has 100GB discs in development which will be playable on most current players being sold as of the new year.

Blu pretty much made the statement that they could carry on the media for the high definition generation that we are in, so here we go.  I suspect that eventually most households that have TVs will have HDTVs soon because it seems that is all that retail and electronic stores sell these days.  I hardly ever see a tube anymore.

Answer 11

GREED

Answer 12

I know its better quality, can fit more information on the disc

Answer 13

bcoz xbox is S H I T

Answer 14

its alot better than the old dvd's

Answer 15

roles off the tongue easier

Answer 16

The quality of blu ray and hd dvd is the same except for some reason blu ray has a browner tint to it. Owning both formats though i prefered HD-DVD the reason why blu ray one is becuase the discs sport bigger space (more than 40 Gb) and HD DVD only sports 8.7 also as someone has said blu ray discs are extremely hard to damage to a point where it cant be run on  a player also blu ray has more films that are aimed at more audiences. HD DVD didnt have the same selection as blu ray so more people would purchase blu ray over HDDVD because of this. Also they won because every one seems to bum sony