Blu-ray has finally made it! - Page 2  

AMEN.....

There is now no way HD-DVD can win, and by prolonging the format war, it only makes it more likely HD in general will fail....

I completely agree with Wolfie here. Let's move on and close this pointless thread already.

At least possible that both of these HD disc formats fail. HD in general is doing better than I had thought it would be with cable, OTA and satellite HDTV appealing to consumers.

chris

In the hopes of actually making this thread somewhat worthwhile... care to back that up?

People right now can buy an HD DVD player for $250-300, with 5 free titles via mail-in, and with many retailers also offering free titles with the purchase of The Matrix.

How, exactly, is there "no way" that HD DVD can win, given that scenario?


I'm not saying that HD DVD *will* win, or that BD *can't* win. (Frankly, I see this probably becoming a stalemate, with both formats going niche.) But I'm wondering if this "no way HD DVD can win" position is built from logic, or just emotion/hope.

LOL

Why can't HDDVD just die? this is pathetic supporting a non-existant format like some do.

Of course it will not win, it will only win in the minds of those who still thinks Santa Clause is for real.

And look at all the pathetic movies HD-DVD got, there is maybe 2 or 3 movies i would buy of them all.

Actually, this thread reminded me of the ridiculous advertising when DVD was an emerging format.

"Own it on video and DVD!"

That's right. VHS had prevailed to the point it was no longer VHS, just VIDEO. Forget that laserdiscs (or videodiscs) were still around til at least 1999 (Episode I).

Those ads made me crazy. "VHS and DVD are both video! What are they saying?!"

I still have a hard time believing VHS is gone now. I forget that it is. I'm not sure anyone could have foreseen how quickly that happened once DVD came around. Us home theater buffs had our awesome little niche format for such a short time before it became "the new VHS."

I still remember the guy at Blockbuster, months before they started carrying any DVDs saying to me, "It might be nice for some action movies, but other than that I don't see the point," or some drivel very close to that.

BD will continue as a movie format for the PS3 Only. HD DVD will prevail as a genral movie format. IMO.

BD is for PS3 what UMD is for the PSP.

Not sure how well UMD is doing, but the sales of BD seems to be flat since the beginning of 2007 - well correlated with the flat sales of the PS3 so far.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That's right, Nielsen was paid off for those 70-30 sales figures.

The beginning of the year is when BD sales went up.

Neither format is doing phenomenally well by any means, but software sales for Blu-ray have clearly been better, with even the neutral studios selling more on Blu-ray.