HD-DVD Lost to Blu-ray ... How?
How did HD-DVD lose to a unfinished, less-featured spec like Blu-ray? I just don't get it. HD-DVD had the name, a finished spec, and extra-features1 over Blu-ray. Blu-ray had space2 over HD-DVD. IMHO, HD-DVD had movies as well… a few that I had include:
- Transformers
- 3003
- Children of Men
- Serenity
- King Kong
- V for Vendetta
- Heroes HD
- The Matrix Trilogy
- Blood Diamond
- Planet Earth4
I know HD-DVD is dead. I, as an HD-DVD supporter, admit it. But is any one else shocked about the Sorry your SOL article? Assuming the article is truthful, I'm just shocked how Blu-ray could have possibly defeated HD-DVD by consumer choice.
I don't have much else to say… sigh
Money talks… millions-of-dollars shouts from atop mountains.
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I have been watching the
I have been watching the blue vs HD from day one, and as I see it, the bottom line is that even though the HD is a better system, Blue ray has the movies to watch. I remember the el-cassette; 3 3/4 IPS, 1/4" tape Dolby C. Dead after less than a year-no labels putting out music on that format. It doesn't matter how good the hardware is if there isn't any software to put in it.
As far as I’m concerned,
As far as I'm concerned, Blu did *not* have more movies. They studios were roughly even after the Paramount switch. And HD-DVD had quite a few good movies (IMHO, of course) and not a bunch of dumbass movies. More in *quantity* not *quality*
HD DVD didnt have Planet
HD DVD didnt have Planet Earth as an exclusive title it was on blu ray too, also hd dvd is just plain generic. Blu ray had many more movies than hd dvd, Warner Bros. is the biggest studio in hollywood. Also after netflix said it would only support blu ray hd dvd was bascily done with. Blu ray owned like 90% of the hd movie business. All HD DVD was a way for tosbia to make a quick buck. I dont understand why any one would care that HD DVD lost they only had a max of 30gb per disk, blu ray is at 50gb and I heard they mite get their disks up to 200gb some time. More space on a disk just means more content like special features and other things.
Yeah, I know Planet Earth
Yeah, I know Planet Earth wasn't an exclusive to HD-DVD. Read the post, it has a footnote about that.
Blu-ray had *storage* over HD-DVD, but not *features*. Christ, Profile 2.0 *starts* to compare to what HD-DVD *already* had. Give me a break. Profile 1.0, Profile 1.1, Profile 2.0 -- yeah, that's not consumer confusion. Enjoy your Blu-ray discs, I'm getting out of the optical media business.
hddvd rocks, its much better
hddvd rocks, its much better than blue ray, but unfortunately toshiba quits it
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