HD DVD & Blu Ray on Front page?

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HappySqurriel said: The comparison wasn't "UMD failed so Blu-Ray will fail" but was more about the initial optimism of a format (in particular a format attached to a gaming console) can be delusional. Many PSP owners probably bought a handful of UMD movies when their PSP was reasonably new because they wanted to try it out; as time went on the novelty of a new format wore off ... The same thing will happen to Blu-Ray and people will not buy movies like The Benchwarmers simply because they have a PS3 which happens to play Blu-Ray movies. (Basically they will be waiting for movies they actually want to own to come out) ... This will lower the dominance of sales that Blu-Ray currently has and sales will become more based on the "Quality" of the movies that are released for a format ...

But that is the point. There are reasons things fail. There were reasons why UMD's seemed to recieve such support a few months after PSP's launch (like bundling UMD's with movies) but if you really look at the numbers their ratio was low for the amount of PSP's on the market. UMD's had some studio support but no backing like blu ray does. There was no exclusive UMD content and absolutley nothing that justified the price. But I will admit you are right about the Quality of movies I will like to point oout that is part of Blu ray's success and if you look at the release list, it might keep the numbers high. I have purchased BR versions of terminator 2, stargate, Grank, Casino royale, rambo, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and there are many more I have yet to get like sleepy hollow, gone in 60 seconds and many more. Blu ray has way more use and purpose than a throwaway format like UMD. It took me more than a year and a half to purchase 2 UMD movies and I did it only because I was going on a long trip. Limited use, fits into what I am saying very well.