New Line goes Blu !

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crumas2 said:

Coca-Cola said:
It sucks that the studios will not allow us consumers to decide.

I chose HDDVD because it was cheaper - I don't really care of the specs. Movies are awesome on HDDVD.

I would have bought movies made by Disney and others if they will release them on HDDVD.

Looks like the war is coming to an end - and I will choose DVD. Was thinking about BR, but not gonna happen for a long time.

 

I, too, hate to see this. HD-DVD was definitely a better format (particularly considering the feature set with overlays, etc., doing with finess what Blu-ray had to do via brute force with more raw storage), but I can't really say the studios are at fault. They have to make money, and supporting two failing HD formats is very expensive. Had the HD camps taken over the DVD market, it might have gone on for a lot longer. As it is now, Blu-ray will have a somewhat better chance of surviving... depends on the adoption rate vs DVD now.

The price argument is weak. The price difference was only 50-100$ in the few weeks before Christmas, so Blu-Ray wasn't all that much more expensive.  In addition to this, combo discs on the HD DVD side were usually priced HIGHER than the same title on Blu-Ray.  Blu-Ray is more expensive, really.  :|

Both formats would've hit DVD pricing eventually anyway.

As for your storage feature set complaints, the only thing Blu-Ray was missing was a second video decoder, which is now mandatory via BD profile 1.1.

All your complaints only matter to early adopters, and the end result would be the same for everybody else for either format.  Cheap players, PiP, etc.  However, storage size and bitrates could not be changed.  Blu-Ray would always have the advantage.