Do you think with satellite radio XM and Sirius merging, the same may occur for HD DVD and BD?

Not trying to be an arse....but, what does one have to do with the other?

Sony would have to buy Toshiba or vice versa and that not going to happen.

Merging formats such as Blu Ray and HD DVD is alot harder than merging XM and Sirius is going to be. Theres different disc types, different players etc.

Nope, the closest thing would be if one format fails. The other might make combo players until they redo all the movies in their format...

sirius and xm merged:

Link (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=807971)

why the hell can't hd do something like this? satellite radio is now a stronger force because the 2 sides have united and become one house.

yes, hd dvd and bd are 2 different formats, but they are both hd. bd should just buy hd dvd. hd dvd players and movies would still exist, but there would be no more exclusive titles. let hd dvd keep some rights or whatever the legal nonsense is, but i still say this medium won't go forward until hd unites.

sirius and xm merged:

Link (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=807971)

why the hell can't hd do something like this? satellite radio is now a stronger force because the 2 sides have united and become one house.

yes, hd dvd and bd are 2 different formats, but they are both hd. bd should just buy hd dvd. hd dvd players and movies would still exist, but there would be no more exclusive titles. let hd dvd keep some rights or whatever the legal nonsense is, but i still say this medium won't go forward until hd unites.

Totally different situation with Satellite radio, the window for this to happen for HD-DVD/BR passed when the first player hit the market. It really isn't as simple as one guy buying the other.

It is a nice dream though...

It really isn't as simple as one guy buying the other.

the power of money can achieve anything.

the power of money can achieve anything.

Using this only as an example, but if Sony were to buy out the HD-DVD technology from Toshiba, since the players are incompatible, the only thing they could do would be to kill their competition. In other words there is nothing BD would need to buy out from HD-DVD (or vice versa for that matter) and that since the players can't play each others discs anyway, it would be a money losing prospect to continue to produce things on both formats. It would make more sense to let the other player die on its own that to purchase a technology to kill it.

Also..XM and Sirius are companies, BD and HD-DVD are technologies. Huge difference.

sirius and xm merged:

Link (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=807971)

why the hell can't hd do something like this? satellite radio is now a stronger force because the 2 sides have united and become one house.

yes, hd dvd and bd are 2 different formats, but they are both hd. bd should just buy hd dvd. hd dvd players and movies would still exist, but there would be no more exclusive titles. let hd dvd keep some rights or whatever the legal nonsense is, but i still say this medium won't go forward until hd unites.

You're right, Blu-ray should just give in and join with HD DVD under the HD DVD banner using the moniker that consumers would be most familiar with. Good points.

One problem. Sony doesn't have the money to buy anything rigth now.

You guys are missing the logistics involved here, no one is buying anything..this war will be just that, until universal goes neutral or the BR exclusives do the same. This would be akin to the xbox buying the Playstation..it just doesn't make sense..

well, sony could just keep hd dvd going and collect the money from it.

The operation of merging two different formats which each have two different disc types and two different players is alot harder than merging two satillite radio companies.

The 2 satellite companies use 2 different receivers - different hardware - same parallel. Smaller market?

You're right, Blu-ray should just give in and join with HD DVD under the HD DVD banner using the moniker that consumers would be most familiar with. Good points.

I believe HD DVD should give in, since there are less studios exclusive to it (especially due to authoring). Not that it makes a difference, but BD was being worked on well before HD-DVD. Though, HD-DVD hit the market first.

I believe HD DVD should give in, since there are less studios exclusive to it (especially due to authoring). Not that it makes a difference, but BD was being worked on well before HD-DVD. Though, HD-DVD hit the market first.

Of course HD DVD isn't going to give in. They've have the more mature product for quite some time. In fact they have proven that their platform was ready from the beginning. Blu-ray is changing their spec and obsoleting many of their 1st generation players in June of this year.

That kind of tells me that my hunch that the BDA was doing a high tech filibuster was correct. So basically the whole market has been stunted by Sony's end around. I cannot reward that type of action with my hard earned money. HD DVD is the more affordable solution for producers and consumers yet it is more full featured. When one takes the studio support out of the picture it is illogical to support Blu-ray.

sirius and xm merged:

Link (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=807971)

why the hell can't hd do something like this?

Well. Hmmm. Let's see. Oh ya. They're two completely different situations. That's why.

The 2 satellite companies use 2 different receivers - different hardware - same parallel. Smaller market?

compatible hardware..all that they are going to do is push the same content over both sets of satellites, so all receivers get the same content..there's your difference.

One of the points to the merger is having more channels, more quality content, not to be redundant. Two channels of the same broadcast doesn't make sense.