| andremop said: While I agree with the OP. I have one question about this thread: Why blu ray would lost? Isn't it very superior to HD-DVD? The PS3 was THAT necessary? Was the 360 HD-DVD add on important in the format war? Whoops, that's more than one question. I still believe that even without the PS3, blu ray would succeed. It's not like HD-DVD had it's own PS3 to compete with it. |
Bluray was superior in capacity, HD-DVD had better quality codecs (this advantage didn't last long though), was region free (good for consumers), cheaper to manufacture actual disks, you could also create the combo disk that has both DVD and HD-DVD on the same disk which would have allowed people to buy with a view to upgrading at a later date. All that being said, if the PS3 didn't have Bluray, I doubt the 360 would have had the HD-DVD add on either. Having Bluray in the PS3 though made it possible to kill off HD-DVD, that along with the fact Toshiba didn't have the money Sony had to fling at movie execs. In that respect I agree that in hindsight Bluray was always going to win because Sony decided they were going to win the format war no matter what it cost them this time.
