Sony had 'no choice' but to include Blu-ray in PS3

[joeorc]

moondeep said
Also, keep in mind that there are MANY drawbacks of Bluray, not the least of which is the dominant position of DVDs players. If you want to buy a new SUV, there's a good chance it has an option to have built-in DVD players in the backs of the seats, for the rear passengers (aka, kids) to watch movies on. There's no option for BR players. If you have kids, you would've realized how naive your statement is concerning DVDs. They are simply cheaper, easier, standardized, and meet the needs of most people, and will for the foreseeable future. HD-DVD didn't fail because of Bluray, it failed because the entire High-def disk market failed as a whole. People didn't want to pay for upgrading in 2006, and they still largely don't. Sony only stayed in the market with their BR because they leveraged their entire future on BR (including the PS3). Since Toshiba didn't have nearly as much to lose by pulling out of the HD market as Sony did/does, it was an no-brainer for them to cut their loses.

the majority of what you just stated is not true at all..Moondeep, while i respect your opinion, Blu-Ray does not have any drawbacks vs' DVD any more than DVD had with the CD format. the very fact that a single layer Blu-Ray 25 GB disc is cheaper to produce than a DL-DVD9 .as for offering a Blu-Ray playback offered for Auto's yes there is..and it still play's DVD's but on such a small screen the upgrade over DVD for auto's is prob. not worth it because of such a small screen, though that just means you can still play your DVD's and Blu-Ray's there already option's if you want them  .

example:

 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001VYZVBC/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=3285522565&ref=pd_sl_83ewy9f4qc_b

@moondeep:

you stated this:

"easier, standardized, and meet the needs of most people, and will for the foreseeable future. HD-DVD didn't fail because of Bluray, it failed because the entire High-def disk market failed as a whole. People didn't want to pay for upgrading in 2006, and they still largely don't. Sony only stayed in the market with their BR because they leveraged their entire future on BR (including the PS3). Since Toshiba didn't have nearly as much to lose by pulling out of the HD market as Sony did/does, it was an no-brainer for them to cut their loses."

There is quite a bit of thing's that i do not agree with in this statement:

Blu-Ray is already standard,an your right that DVD meet's most people's need's but on the same token that is changeing and its going to change faster in the United states due to the digital transition. Analog set's are going to be completely phased out, and since HD TV's all have much higher resolution's Blu-Ray is already set to take advantage of the higher resolution, just like the DVD upconversion player's also, but as you can already see Blu-Ray player's already contain upconversion for  standard DVD. Yes the upconversion DVD player's are cheaper now, but so will Blu-Ray there will be a point when DVD player's will be phased out for upconversion, than upconversion get's phased out . but that will not happen for quite some time. just the same for them the same for Blu-Ray it will be on the market for quite some time because the major manuf. for dvd player's are now making Blu-Ray player's also. Adoption of Blu-Ray as a standard is over and done with.

Blu-Ray will absorb DVD over time it will happen slowly but it will happen, due to the fact that the DVD standard can be played in Blu-Ray player's, Blu-Ray does not have to beat DVD, it just has to Absorb it by people upgradeing, which the cheaper that Blu-Ry get the more inclined for people to upgrade. It does not have to happen over night. Blu-Ray is an Upgrade from DVD right now the price may be a problem for many people but it will not be for long.

As for SONY putting their Entire future into Blu-Ray...that is not the only product that Sony make's, you could say that about any product any company makes,"their putting their entire future on it" ...that's like saying Microsoft put their entire future into The XBOX360 ..its just one product. Sony invested into the Blue/Green laser's for optical drives does not mean they are "putting their entire future into Blue/Green laser's" Blu-Ray was an investment into optical drive technology just like sony invested into CD and DVD red laser development in the late 80's and 90's. you could say "that's a bad choice to put investment $$" but Sony did and they were not the only company to do also. Blu-Ray was not just  "Sony only format" Sony stuck with Blu-Ray because it was a sound investment when 11 of the largest optical drivemanuf. were all investing into the same thing.