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Bye-bye Blu-Ray...we hardly knew ye
ChadTower:
Sony has been around since the 1950s.
Edgedamage:
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#2. Sony did not make cd or dvd formats, nor did they "help" to make them. I'm not talking about what they USED, I'm talking about what they MADE. Any format that sony designs is doomed to failure. I don't know why, maybe they are cursed, but they've never made a successful, universal format. Yes schmokes as crazy as it sounds, the fact that sony made it could doom the format. It has nothing to do with my dislike of sony though, they just tend to produce bad technology, or technology that isn't cost-effective ect.... At least when it comes to storage formats, they make great televisions.
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Not a sony fanboy but I gotta say this. If you think sony formats are such a failure why are 99.9% of all shows on broadcast television are being played back from a SONY CREATED FORMAT!! Sony created the Betacam SP VTR and tape stock. Then they moved on to Digital betacam VTR's and tape stock. Then they moved onto HDcam 60i/720p/1080i/1080p. Their next machine is the HDcam SR which covers all the HD standards plus more robust up and down conversions. Bad technology???????? Why does every postproduction company/edit house/broadcaster use sony Trinitron monitors for display and color timing?? Like watching the super bowl in HI DEF?? Well you can thank sony for that as CBS will be using only sony high def cameras. It's starting to smell like poo here Howard please stop talking outta your ass.
skim36:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 30, 2007, 03:02:57 pm ---
Sony has been around since the 1950s.
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Thank you Chad, you are absolutely right. Those of you that have trouble sleeping will appreciate this link, the history of Sony:
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/index.html
somunny:
This from The Digital Bits yesterday.
"The first official retail tracking data from Nielsen VideoScan seems to show Blu-ray Disc outselling HD-DVD in unit software sales by a more than 2 to 1 margin, and the gap is widening. According to data reported in Home Media Retailing (you'll find it on page one of the digital edition available on their website) for the week ending 1/7/07, Year-to-Date tracking indicated that for every 47.14 HD-DVDs sold there were 100 Blu-ray Disc titles sold. Just a week later, ending 1/14/07, the same YTD tracking indicated just 38.36 HD-DVDs sold for every 100 Blu-ray Discs sold. What's more, tracking by Nielsen VideoScan since the inception of both formats appears to indicate that Blu-ray Disc is quickly erasing the sales lead HD-DVD enjoyed as a result of launching months earlier in 2006. On 1/7, HD-DVD's lead was 100 discs for every 85.05 Blu-ray Discs sold, while just a week later on 1/14, that lead had been reduced to 100 HD-DVDs for every 92.40 Blu-ray Discs sold.
Specific unit volume numbers are not available, but one would guess they're still fairly low. No doubt much of the sales surge has to do with the arrival of Sony's PS3 game system in November. We'll have to watch closely over the next few months to see if these trends are affected by specific new software/title releases on both formats from week to week. Still, this data seems to bear out claims made by the BDA at CES, to the effect that their format was outselling HD-DVD as of December 2006 and that the margin could grow to as much as 3 to 1 in early 2007. It'll be interesting to see how continuing sales of the PS3 (and new dedicated players for both formats) impact these numbers as well."
ChadTower:
Intuition tells me that more attention should be paid to hardware than software. One guy buying 45 discs is far less significant than 5 guys buying two players each.