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twesterm on 02 January 2008
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famousringo said:
zackblue said:

Recently at my local news station they discussed what format to buy HD DVD or blu-ray since everyone is upgrading to HD. They added that blu-ray on paper is the better format, but on HD TV its the same in picture quality. They also said with ps3 selling well blu-ray has the advantage, and they also added that its warner bros that will decide the winning format, the guy also added that the winner of the foramt war will achieve huge profits.

Now if blu-ray wins this year, and HD DVD becomes obsolete "THIS YEAR" will it affect the console war?


Bolded the false assumption.

Lots of people won't have an HD TV for quite some time, and lots of people with an HD TV still don't have/know about/care about HD signals. DVD will be the dominant standard for at least three more years, by which time this console generation will be winding down.

If Blu-ray vanquishes HD-DVD, it will be an advantage, but not a decisive one.


Funny thing about that-- my parents just got a brand new spiffy 50" LCD TV and BluRay player with DirectTV HD and HDDVR...and they still record things in standard definition and still buy DVD's first. Why? Because they just don't know and only got all that stuff because the salesman was apparently awesome.