Who is winning the Blu Ray vs HD DVD "war?"?

Question

Any details would be very helpful... Which one should I invest in and buy?

Answer 1

SONY! - Not the CONSUMER and not Toshiba!  It's called an HD disc monopoly with excessively high prices.

Answer 2

Blu-ray already won...

Answer 3

Yes the war has been won by Blu-Ray because the powers at Sony paid off all the movie studios for their support .

But the war will heat up again when the chinese enter the market next year with CH-HD .

CH-HD will be a HD-DVD format that will have all the HD glory in picture and audio .

Answer 4

Sadly, blu-ray already won.

Blu-ray has more capacity and is propagated by sony(extreme price gouging as seen when hd dvd called defeat) and a lot less durable than hddvd(originally mean for cartridges, but to compete with hddvd, the removed the catridge....unfortunately their magic cure does not prevent the disk from shattering in netflix mailers.

HD is based on cd, more durable since the data layer further away from the edge, less capacity than blu-ray, cheaper than blu-ray.

HDDVD was released as a completed format, but Blu-ray keeps having revisions and thus making older player obsolete pretty quickly (thanks sony). The cheapest player is a ps3 thought...

Answer 5

Time to get with the program....Blu-Ray already won....like last February. Have you been living under a rock?

Answer 6

Long over buddy....Blu-ray Won. HD-DVD is a dead format, it would be foolish to invest money in it.

Answer 7

its blue ray but it is not more marketed in market

Answer 8

BluRay has won the war AND the they did jasck up their prices when it happened. That is what happens when their is collusion and no competitive market.

Answer 9

Seems like someone is a sore loser, and now posting a lot of misinformation.

Blu-ray is not "propagated" by Sony and in fact both Pioneer and Panasonic have more patents in Blu-ray technology than Sony does. Philips were the main brains behind Blu-ray, as they were with CD, DSD and SACD.

Pricing has not changed since the format war ended on February 19th, 2008. The MSRP's have all stayed the same, yet pro-HD DVD people like the above poster maintain that because some individual retailers changed their pricing shortly after the Super Bowl week that the prices were now going to start gouging people.

This is of course complete nonsense as any logical thinker can see. All the companies that make Blu-ray Disc players also make DVD players. What's the competition for DVD? There is none in terms of a standard definition physical format. Why then are DVD players not $1,000 an up? Oh yeah, because the companies are in competition with each other too to get your business. Denon, Marantz, Pioneer, Panasonic, Philips, Daewoo, Sharp, Samsung, Sony, Magnavox, Loewe and others all make Blu-ray players and they all want you to buy theirs.

HD DVD's bandwidth required either a low bit-rate encode with a soft picture (see Troy) in order to fit lossless audio, or a high bit-rate picture encode to retain the sharpness of the image and alas would skimp on the audio (see King Kong and Transformers)

Blu-ray allows for a sharp picture, true to the original presentation, and can still fit numerous lossless audio tracks on the disc.

As for rendering players obsolete, that's more HD DVD propaganda nonsense. There is NO TITLE on the market right now that cannot play in EVERY Blu-ray Disc player. There are some FEATURES on the disc (like picture in picture) that won't work on all players, but these featurettes can be viewed separately on all non-PIP players.

Do a little research and ignore the jaded fanboys. The format with the best potential for providing the cinema experience all the way up to the largest of home screens (120" and up) is the format that won. It always had the backing of more studios, more directors and more consumer electronics companies. There is a good reason why HD DVD appeared to be "cheaper" and that's because only one manufacturer was making players - Toshiba. They even convinced Onkyo to release their HD-XA2 under a different model number and convinced Samsung, who they partner with in the TSST, to make a dual format player. Alas, they couldn't beat the format destined for our high defintion future and as someone who has experienced side by side the differences between HD DVD and Blu-ray all I can say is thank God the format that doesn't need to compromise to deliver won.

The eyes and ears prefer Blu-ray.