Sony's in a 'bag of hurt' because of Blu-ray

[Zappykins]

SvennoJ said:

Zappykins said:

Way before that.  When they were in the talks for one standard, everyone involved - was in agreement except Sony.  Sony refused to agree. 

That is news to me. Maybe Wikipedia is off the mark on this, but it no where mentions that Sony was solely responsible for the format war. It does say blu-ray was developed in 2000, and Toshiba started the competing format in 2002.

Anyway good thing blu-ray won. HD-DVD only had 15GB layers and much lower bit rate.

Well, I thought it was common knowledge now.  Like how Sony walked out the the video format talks because they thought if they got their Beta out first then everyone would use it.  Many of my friends got stuck with video players that you couldn't get any movie for.  I really lost a great deal of respect for Sony company after that.  But they did make the best consumer televions for many years. Till Samsung finally passed them.

HD DVD had some advantages over Blu-ray.  Blu-ray can store more, but gosh darn they take forever to load up.  I don't think one was really signifianctly better than the other.  They both use blue lasers and similar tech.  The whole war was stupid and avoidable.