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naznatips on 14 June 2007
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windbane said:
mrstickball said:

It's not about space, it's about what's available and viable. DVD was viable because it was already in use for many things. CDs were the same way. DVD is still the only real viable option, because it's not proprietary technology that hasn't been adopted entirely by the optical media market. IMO, it's stupid to pump out non-standard formats. Look at what happened with the non-standard formats in many things: UMD, Gigabit Disks, GC disks. They were out of the ordinary and didn't work. Time has shown, even as far back as built in games of the Atari Era, that standard formats are the best, as they are the cheapest, most widely used, and decrease developer costs.

*sigh*

CDs were "proprietary" until Sony and Phillips introduced them. Yeah, that's right, CDs are more of a Sony format than blu-ray. I think those worked out well. What was that cool device that used CDs? Oh yeah, the Playstation 1.

DVDs weren't widely adopted until...what was that thing called...oh yeah, the Playstation 2.

I am not saying that history will for sure repeat itself because HD-DVD is hanging on, unfortunately (because blu-ray is the superior format but the supporters need to do a better job using it), but do not say that Sony formats always fail when CDs were far more a Sony format than Blu-ray. DVDs were as much a consortium effort as Blu-ray currently is. It's a shame that Sony has to lead the way all the time, though. They could use some better help. Blu-ray drives are in PCs, though, and Apple is a blu-ray supporter. There aren't even hd-dvd burners yet but you can already get blu-ray burners and bd-rs.

We'll see what happens. If blu-ray can match hd-dvd players price by christmas it shouldn't be a problem considering all other factors are in blu-ray's favor.

 


I agree that it's certainly not garunteed a Sony format will fail, but it's not looking good.  HD-DVD sold 60% of HD players last month according to another topic on VGchartz, so it's not only holding on but holding EVEN.  A 2 man struggle between the 2 will only result in them hurting each other's sales until something much better comes along.  HVD will probably be that replacement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc