| welshbloke said: OK you seem to be missing the point somewhat so for one final time I will try and explain the situation as it was back then. The consumer did not choose Blu Ray Sony did, they decided that to play games on the Playstation you would need a Blu Ray disc. The consumer did not make this decision it was Sony's based on there requirements and needs. HD DVD was in fact the only paltform selling players in any number. The PS3 was a console that could also play HD content via Blu Ray discs. It was the companies providing content that decided ultimately what platform to have and it was Warner Brothers eventual climb down. Lastly the HD DVD disc itself was capable of having one side DVD and one side HD DVD. This meant 1 disc not two and towards the end it was common for disc to contain both formats. It may be that some discs today come with a DVD inside the box but this is not the norm, I would suggest that this was the direction HD DVD was heading and so it probably would of become the norm and would of allowed the easier migration of content to HD. HD DVD was also normally cheaper than Blu Ray. So now that I have laboured the point the consumer did not choose Blu Ray the content providers did. Sony did kill off HD DVD but I will not droan on about that you should just look up the history and who was in what camp and what allegiances they had to Sony and you should find that out for yourself. |
Again, you seem to be blinded by either your dislike of Blu-ray and/or your love of HD-DVD. Consumers made the choice, not Sony. Just like consumers chose VHS over Sony's Betamax, it's the same for all format wars. It doesn't matter what Sony chose to put out there in the market, without consumer support it would have failed. Like I said, no one had to buy its players or the PS3. They could have bought HD-DVD players and the 360. Yes, some movie studios supported Blu-ray, but HD-DVD had its supporters, too (MS, Intel, Warner, Universal, Paramount). And if Blu-ray had failed, its supporters would have moved over to HD-DVD. However, consumers ultimately backed Blu-ray over HD-DVD. So, really, it's one of those situations where you just need to get used to it.
