fordy said:
You do realise that the market followed a similar trend with VHS vs Betamax, right? Betamax would have been classed as superior in quality, yet VHS became the market leader. Do you know why? I'll give you a hint. Read the paragraph above once again. Are you trying to justify that Sony did right in buying studio support through exclusitivity contracts, despite the higher capital costs that people would be forced to shell out with BluRay? |
Who cares. Blu-Ray is here and everyone loves it. Well, everyone who matters that is. And for the record, you can thank Warner Bros. for the collaspe of HD-DVD and the flourishment of Blu-Ray. WB saw their DVD's sales dipped 5% during the 2005 Christmas shopping season compared to the previous year while ther HD sales (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) were abysmal. They saw that consumers were on the fence about the new HD medias, and it hurt their sales. So WB did the logical thing by the supporting of Blu-Ray exclusively, and that's when the dominoes started to fall. True story, bro. Stop hating.