digital inversatile disks
Anyone remember how long it took the DVD standard to be finalised? Was it 10 or 20 years, I forget. Why then are we doing it again? Toshiba's HD-DVD vs Sony's BDA's BluRay.
It doesn't matter which is better - look at Betamax vs VHS and see who won. My name is Joe Consumer and I want a new disk format that is better than the DVD in whichever ways you choose to market it to me and I want it now. Reports like this which say x is better than y (in this case 58% of consumers prefer bluray, 15% HD DVD and the rest undecided) are utter rubbish. The BDA (Bluray Disk Association) should take their loaded questions and shove them in unsavoury places.
Here's a tip to anyone from Toshiba that reads my blog. Sony are going to release their new game console, the PS3, by Q2 '06. The PS3 is going to be equipped with a bluray drive. Your manufacturing cost argument is now moot. Why don't you push the format? Tell Microsoft that you'll pay for the first million HD DVD drives for their new console (due for release in November), the Xbox360, and get out there.
Also, a plea to anyone from Microsoft that's listening: Can we please have a next-gen format in the Xbox360? Enough people have complained about it. DVD just doesn't cut it.
I personally want the 360 to have a bluray drive just to see the look on the die-hard's faces.
It doesn't matter which is better - look at Betamax vs VHS and see who won. My name is Joe Consumer and I want a new disk format that is better than the DVD in whichever ways you choose to market it to me and I want it now. Reports like this which say x is better than y (in this case 58% of consumers prefer bluray, 15% HD DVD and the rest undecided) are utter rubbish. The BDA (Bluray Disk Association) should take their loaded questions and shove them in unsavoury places.
Here's a tip to anyone from Toshiba that reads my blog. Sony are going to release their new game console, the PS3, by Q2 '06. The PS3 is going to be equipped with a bluray drive. Your manufacturing cost argument is now moot. Why don't you push the format? Tell Microsoft that you'll pay for the first million HD DVD drives for their new console (due for release in November), the Xbox360, and get out there.
Also, a plea to anyone from Microsoft that's listening: Can we please have a next-gen format in the Xbox360? Enough people have complained about it. DVD just doesn't cut it.
I personally want the 360 to have a bluray drive just to see the look on the die-hard's faces.
posted by nj at
08:32
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Reading this makes me happy.
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=8818
According to the statements made by Bill Gates in Japan, Xbox 360, the new gaming console will include HD-DVD drives.
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nj, at 1:36 am
Looks like the BDA have the upper hand now - Sony, Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox have all committed to Blu-ray.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050810-5194.html
Maybe now we're now a little closer to a solution. Who knows.
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nj, at 10:23 am
It appears that the final bout will take place in the market.
Well, it’s been a wild ride up and down (and mostly down) on the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray DVD format war roller coaster, and now all hope of a unified DVD format is officially lost. Sony and Toshiba have totally given up all efforts to continue the unification talks. Looks like the war will officially be waged in the market, with plenty of potential home theater installation casualties likely. It’s gonna be bloody.
Warring DVD format factions give up on unified format talks
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nj, at 8:32 am
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