Bluray vs hddvd - HD-DVD Buyers Beware

[dallas]

Blue3 said:

dallas said:

BenKenobi88 said:
My prediction: Both formats will lose in a couple years to a more advanced disc format, one that the PS3 can't use, unless perhaps it had a hardware upgrade.

Blu-Ray would still be great for PS3 games, just not movies...

I have considered that possibility benkenobi. I think that blu ray has won this war but that doesn't mean that the blu ray is going to be "in the clear" for that long. The chinese are adopting their own standard high-def DVD. What if they decide to flood the market with cheap players and dvd's, and move thier cut-rate product to america? If this does not happen, I really can't see anything happening to the blu-ray in the next 8 years at least, b/c the formats have each taken more than 10 years before the market has had an upgrade. VHS in the 80's....dvd's in the 90's....high def DVDs in the 00's...

 chinese formats are nothing, hollywood wont realese movies on them.  Given the piracy there hollywood will avoid them at any cost.

 

Uh, blue, you know that you american movies are on both legit and pirate DVD's in china dont you?  Whether they burn our stuff or not makes no difference. They rest of the world loves our culture, and the movie makers want more $$$ so they'll jump to be able to market to the highest populated country in the world.