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Kasz216 on 29 November 2007
friedtofu said:
dabaus513 said:
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=10890 According to the source used there blu ray 66% compared to 34 hddvd. Closing the gap my ass.

   Fans from both sides have the predicament of contradicting themselves when it comes to hd format wars + console wars. My god has this shit been beaten to death over and over.

   On one side Sony fans are saying why should Toshiba waste their time with hddvd, its a losing format, AND the PS3 isnt failing and its selling lots of software given its smaller user base.  

    Yet on the other end why should Sony waste their time on ps3, its a losing console, and HDDVD is selling very well given its smaller user base. 

    In hddvd's defense, given the 6 MILLION PS3's plus 400K(?)  Blu-ray standalones vs 750K hddvd stand alones + xbox hddvd add-ons combined, doesnt a 66:34 ratio look pretty damn GOOD for hddvd? Do hddvd owners just buy more movies?

    One thing Ive wanted to hear peoples thoughts on, that was brought up in another forum, is why 2 hd formats couldnt survive side by side. "It works for consoles, shouldnt it work for movies?" I dont personally believe this would work myself, since movie studios dont have hardware sales they need to stand behind. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

    


Well to be fair, most Blu-ray fanboys are blu-ray fanboys because of the PS3.  While most HD-DVD fanboys are fanboys because it's cheaper.

I mean, they play the same movies, that look exactly the same, and sound exactly the same. (well they don't, but the difference isn't discernable by the human ear.)

This is like argueing over which company makes the best spring water that comes from the same spring.  Everythings the same except the price and branding.

If both show they are here to say, eventually studios will stop their stupid "so and so exclusive" tags, and everyone will be able to get the movies they want, on the system they want, for cheaper no less.

Smaller movie studios who can't afford both will just find publishers to do it for them.  If they can't... the movie probably sucked anyway.



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superchunk on 29 November 2007

both hddvd and bluray players play dvd's

AND

If i am not mistaken, hddvd is backed by the porn industry.



gorgepir on 29 November 2007

I don't know, but the day that Microsoft decides to sell Windows on both DVD and HD-DVD is the day that blue-ray supremacy will end. Since they have such a monopoly, if Windows and Office come out on a HD-DVD, all computers will be fitted with HD-DVD players (with the possible exception of Sony computers).



sandwich on 29 November 2007
superchunk said:
both hddvd and bluray players play dvd's

AND

If i am not mistaken, hddvd is backed by the porn industry.

 so hd dvd is clearly superior



ProfDallas on 29 November 2007
sandwich said:
superchunk said:
both hddvd and bluray players play dvd's

AND

If i am not mistaken, hddvd is backed by the porn industry.

 so hd dvd is clearly superior


of course



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ShastaMasta on 29 November 2007

still not as good as digital downloading



kn on 29 November 2007
leo-j said:
I dont get why toshiba is wasting so much money.

 It's called royalties.  Currently Toshiba is getting them on the DVD standard.  Sony isn't.  If blu-ray wins, Sony will and then Toshiba won't.  See how simple it is?  Why do you think sony pushed the betamax/minidisk/umd/blu-ray formats?  Royalties.  Sony is wasting just as much or more on their side...



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leo-j on 29 November 2007

If blu-ray wins sony will make billions.

If HD DVD wins toshiba will make Billions.



 

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ShastaMasta on 29 November 2007

does sony get royalties for blurayand licensing fees for a game on top of that?



naznatips on 29 November 2007

The best selling HD movie ever has still had less than 2% of the total market sales of the same movie on DVD, and we are more than a year into this worthless format war. Neither is winning, both suck, DVD isn't getting overturned until something much better comes out. Even Sony themselves admits they are in a stalemate. This war is over, and both sides lost.