Bluray vs hddvd - HD-DVD Buyers Beware

[MikeB]

@ Dolla Dolla & Gballzack

OK, I already replied why I think the Blu-Ray vs HD DVD format "war" is hard to compare with the PS3 vs XBox 360 outlook. I would be very interested to know what exactly you think will happen to put HD DVD back on the map?

I listed a few reasons why I think PS3 sales will be boosted:

1) Exclusive high profile games which are yet to be released, we are talking about huge 10-25 million USD projects. Both new franchises and games series which performed excellent on the PS2.
2) System software enhancements and the free Home service.
3) Huge performance gains for redesigned games engines which take advantage of the Cell's SPEs.

So what will push HD DVD back on the map?

Exclusive movies?

If you look at the DVD charts, the titles to appear as Blu-Ray exclusives on average performed better than the anticipated HD DVD exlcusives.

Price drop?

Blu-Ray and HD DVD both use similar technology. If HD DVD hardware technology drops in price, so can Blu-Ray players. The initial disc production cost benefit of HD DVD, as it uses the older DVD replication methods has been overcome and on average Blu-Ray discs are produced cheaper than their HD DVD equivalents.

If you want to belittle or make fun of other people's perspectives then why not at least share some understandable reasoning? What is going to happen to turn the current events around? Here in Europe HD DVD is losing shelf space and at various retailers is being replaced completely by Blu-Ray, at the local store of the biggest European electronics retailer the remaining unsold HD DVDs have now been placed within the Blu-Ray section!