| amp316 said: Seeing that 95% of the market is still DVD I have no idea where anyone can say that Blu-Ray will ever be the majority choice. Blu-Ray reminds me of Beta. Beta was a superior format to VHS that no one switched over to because of the price. I, for one, am an avid movie collector with over 1000 movies that are on DVD. I am not about to switch over to Blu-ray unless everyone loses their minds and goes out and buys them which in turn would make DVD's irrelevant. |
I lived the time of the video format war and the comparison is flawed.
1. Betamax and VHS were released at the same time and were rival formats from the start.
2. Betamax and VHS were a lot alike (Beta having the better quality), and the key to the format win was not the price, it was the lenght, VHS put more hours in a single T-120 than a Betamax cassette. By the time Betamax improved this the war was over.
3. JVC improved the VHS format with the VHS HQ has a quality near Betamax, with this the difference is almost impossible to see for the common eye.
Now you're comparing this with the DVD/Blu-Ray situation??? let's see...
1. DVD launched in late 90's as the unified video format to avoid a war, Sony and Philips put their rules, and Toshiba and others like Matsushita put their rules as well. Blu-Ray launched in 2006 and it's not an unified format, he had to fight a war with HD-DVD (this is the real comparison).
2. DVD only handles 480i and 480p resolutions, Blu-Ray handles them and the HD-ones (720p, 1080i and 1080p), and HD-DVD did that as well... So they're a lot different, and they're not direct competitors.
