For once, Sony, you win

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Congratulations, HDDVD player owners! You've just won a 1200 dollar doorstop!



http://www.computerworld.com/action...rticleId=9063378&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat


February 19, 2008 (Computerworld) So the high-definition DVD war's over, and to the victor go the spoils.

Now that Sony's Blu-ray Disc DVD format has beat out Toshiba's HD DVD , the question arises: Just what spoils are there? Many consumers have been put off by the high-definition DVD format wars, leaving sales of both formats sluggish at best. Some are speculating that because of the end to the war, sales will pick up. Let's look at some of the numbers.

Last year, about 32 million DVD players were sold in the U.S.; of those, only 4%, or 1.5 million, were high-definition DVD players. Blu-ray Disc players accounted for 578,000 of that number, and HD DVD accounted for 370,000, according to Adams Media Research Inc. That's almost a 2-to-1 ratio. After Warner Bros. pulled its support of HD DVD last month, the percentage of Blu-ray to HD DVD sales skyrocketed. Blu-ray accounted for 93% of high-def DVD hardware sales in North America in the week after Warner Bros.'s announcement -- although the overall number was small: 21,770 players. Multiply those sales out over the full year, and you're still looking at just over 1 million high-def players sold.

 

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sony won with ps2 as well. oh yeah and i think it won somewhere along it's path to becoming a multinational corporation.

 

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sony won with ps2 as well. oh yeah and i think it won somewhere along it's path to becoming a multinational corporation.

O Grind, so pedantic and ignorant of history.

The title was a reference to Betamax. Also, pretty much every format that Sony has ever put out, besides Blu-Ray, has been a complete and utter failure.

 

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Someone paid 1,200 for an HDDVD player? They like 99 dollars at Wal-Mart.

HD-DVD and BLU-Ray will lose in the end. No one cares. I have a good upconverting dvd player and it works great. No need for blu-ray.

Downloadable HD content will be the way of the future not some dvd ver 2.0

 

[Damocles]

Someone paid 1,200 for an HDDVD player? They like 99 dollars at Wal-Mart.

HD-DVD and BLU-Ray will lose in the end. No one cares. I have a good upconverting dvd player and it works great. No need for blu-ray.

Downloadable HD content will be the way of the future not some dvd ver 2.0

If you got it when the TVs were $7000 then you paid like $800 and it only worked with the ones that had a +RR or some such nonsense...

 

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Someone paid 1,200 for an HDDVD player? They like 99 dollars at Wal-Mart.

HD-DVD and BLU-Ray will lose in the end. No one cares. I have a good upconverting dvd player and it works great. No need for blu-ray.

Downloadable HD content will be the way of the future not some dvd ver 2.0

Optical media isn't dead yet.

ANd:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8006921

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5984216

So about 200-300.

But they were much more expensive just a while back.

 

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If you got it when the TVs were $7000 then you paid like $800 and it only worked with the ones that had a +RR or some such nonsense...

You mean an HDMI connection? Or a component connection? Yeah, that's pretty much a given. It's not high-def otherwise. If you just plugged in your stuff the normal way into an HDTV, you'd just be getting slightly stretched versions of the same low-quality image you see on a 100 buck SDTV set.

 

[Damocles]

You mean an HDMI connection? Or a component connection? Yeah, that's pretty much a given. It's not high-def otherwise. If you just plugged in your stuff the normal way into an HDTV, you'd just be getting slightly stretched versions of the same low-quality image you see on a 100 buck SDTV set.

No, each system had to use a certain HD DVD type. There were things like +RR and -RR, other things like that you had to look for when buying the movies so you could be assured they would work on your player.

Blue ray was easy, it's why they won.

 

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Optical media isn't dead yet.

ANd:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8006921

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5984216

So about 200-300.

But they were much more expensive just a while back.

They were 99 dollars around christmas.

 

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No, each system had to use a certain HD DVD type. There were things like +RR and -RR, other things like that you had to look for when buying the movies so you could be assured they would work on your player.

Blue ray was easy, it's why they won.

A format war within a format war. Great idea, whoever thought of that.

Remember DVD+, -, and RAM? Each company put out a standard and egotistically believed that theirs was the only one acceptable. Turns out, no one gave a fuck what the difference was. It's hard to find a DVD writer these days that doesn't burn all three, and whenever people pick up writable DVD's I can't imagine that they even know which kind they're picking up.