Will PS3 win the HD format war?

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LordTheNightKnight said:

 

That's why I stated they will likely call a truce when they think this has done its job. Look at the history of DVD. There was going to be a format war, but Sony and Toshiba compromised. Toshiba got most of the hardware patents, and Sony got to sell PS2 games and movies on DVD. Both walked away winners. This time, they don't have a clearly superior format. DVD was to VHS as CDs cassettes. Yet HD discs are to DVD as Super Audio CDs are to CDs. And how much did SACDs catch on?

There never was a format war to begin with with DVD. At the start they agreed on a standard, and so you can't compare BD vs HD-DVD to that.

The main reason that there's a format war this time, was I think because it was Toshiba, or another one of the electronics giants that had most of the rights to the DVD formay, and companies like Sony had to pay them money each time they made a DVD or DVD player, so it's understandable they don't want to pay that kinda money this time.

Also, Super Audio CDs? Well although they may not be mass-market, things like that are still used professionally, so are Mini-disks (mainly Jingles for Radio) and Digital-Cassette Tapes. In fact, as most people are probably aware, movies have been recored in HD for ages; that's part of the reason Beat-Max was used professionally aswell, because there were HD versions.