FOOD88 on 12 November 2007
| I dGooseGaws said: @FOOD88: Well, this has been discussed in painful detail in other threads already, but the basics of it come down to the costs involved in manufacturing as well as failure rates of production yields. Also, the HD-DVD spec has been final since it came to market, whereas the Blu-ray spec has changed and will likely change again. HD-DVD specs require each player to support specific codecs which are not required to be supported by Blu-ray players, and each HD-DVD player is required to have an ethernet port for internet access while Blu-ray players are not. |
Good point, but either way, Joe Blow is going to go for the format that has Spiderman 3 and some Disney stuff for his kids. I can't see HD-DVD coming back with studio support that is more limited than blu-rays. The exclusivity deal with Paramount and Dreamworks is only prolonging a war that blu-ray is clearly still winning, so if anything HD-DVD is just annoying. I see blu-ray appealing more to the common folk just of the basis of their studio support and even more so with its implementation with some Dell computers.
About the ethernet port, if it is really needed, Sony or whoever manufactured the blu-ray player sends a disc with a firmware update.
