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Bye-bye Blu-Ray...we hardly knew ye

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shmokes:

I don't think HD-DVD is Microsoft's optical format.  I think they're just supporting it because they want Sony to fail, but the didn't make HD-DVD.  Are they even on the HD-DVD consortium?  At any rate, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft didn't even have a hand in the development of HD-DVD, and they don't stand to gain anything by its winning the war except that would be bad for Sony.

ChadTower:


What is bad for Sony and their Blu-Ray player (PS3) is good for M$ and the 360.  That's probably why they are going that way.

I don't trust the PS3 as a full time movie machine on top of gaming.  They said the same thing about the PS2 and the lasers/motors/drives weren't up to it at all.  Hell, they even had issues where many of their units wouldn't read certain games if the console had any substantial game hours on it.  Why would, especially given the weak initial reports on PS3 hardware, any reasonable person believe the PS3 would do better than the PS2 did in that regard?

somunny:

Here's a link to a recent posting by Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits which seems to contradict the predictions of Blu-Rays demise.

The post also contains a link to this Newsweek article which, in a nutshell, explains that due to a deep slump in current software sales, the porn industry may very well bypass the hi-def disc formats all together and concentrate on delivering the content straight to the viewer sans physical media, thus removing themselves from the equation.

ChadTower:


They already do that.  They're called strippers and callgirls.

FrizzleFried:

I'm confused...i've yet to come across a HD-DVD player that wasn't a HD-DVD player?   All upconverting players i've seen in my area say "DVD PLAYER" and then list the fact they UPCONVERT to 720p/1080i.   Maybe it's just my part of the country or something?!?


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