The format war is officially over. Toshiba announced it was shutting HD-DVD down, but would support all currant players out there. They further said they had no plans of making Blu-ray players, but who really thinks they will stick to that in the long term? Universal also announced it would support Blu-ray. Paramount and Dream [...]
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A few announcements today make HD-DVD a bigger looser than it already was at this point. Netflix announced that they would go with Blu-ray exclusively and phase out their HD-DVDs and then Best Buy announced they would be pushing Blu-ray over HD-DVD, but stopped short of going exclusive.
Lots of message boards seem filled with people [...]
I haven’t covered the developments in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray for a long time.
Since I last covered it, Paramount and Dreamworks went to HD-DVD exclusive for 18 months after being paid a great deal of money. Then HD-DVD players went to $100 for a short period before jumping back to their normal [...]
Thinking about getting a HD-DVD player, or the recently launched Blu-ray player? Just hold your horses. None of the players currently on the market support HDMI 1.3, which is essential to getting the absolute best in audio and video from a player. The first High Definition player to feature it will likely be Sony’s Playstation [...]
The first HD-DVD players and movies are out. The Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD PLAYER and/or the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player are/is out in limited numbers, or so I hear. I know the movies are out for sure at the very least. I saw an ad for it one of my magazines, and they note [...]
Sony’s Playstation 3 will launch in November. It was widely expected to be out in the United States here in November anyhow, so this is mostly just a delay for Japan, and an early present for Europe which probably normally would have had to wait a few more months. Didn’t they learn anything from the [...]
A Newsweek story says:
Both sides came to Vegas ready to open fire. Toshiba announced it would ship the first HD DVD players in March, priced at just $499. By contrast, the earliest delivery date for a Blu-ray player is sometime this summer, at a price of $1,800. Sony believes it can overcome its rivals’ head [...]
I haven’t talked about the Blu-ray/HD-DVD war for a while. So I update a few things to a small degree.
I saw in the comments for the previous Blu-ray post, and in the tech news that Panasonic has started actual production on dual layer Blu-ray discs. The current yield is a bit better then 80% (press release) which isn’t an acceptable yield for final production, but is good for a start. They also have until [...]
I first saw this story which had the following blatant inaccuracy:
This news comes on the heels of wavering support for Blu-ray due to recent reports of it’s restrictive copyright protections policy… Only HD-DVD has added Managed Copy and iHD and made the spec part of the mandatory format for their discs, all discs would have [...]
I haven’t posted any of the updates on the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD battle lately. There has been a smattering of news, MGM announced it would officially support Blu-ray only, not surprising since Sony basically owns them. The Blu-ray group said yes to mandatory managed copy and no to iHD. Fox’s co-chairman made a statement Thursday [...]
It’s official, Warner Brothers, one of the early backers of HD-DVD will release movies on Blu-ray as well. This leaves only Universal as the only HD-DVD supporting studio to commit to Blu-ray officially. None of the Blu-ray studios have yet said they will support HD-DVD, which means that, assuming Universal switches to support both, as [...]
Hewlett Packard has formally asked the Blu-ray Disc Association to add Managed Copy and iHD to the final specs (HD Beat story). The addition of these two specifications, especially mandatory Managed Copy would be the final (or one of the final anyhow) nail in the coffin of HD-DVD. Mandatory Managed Copy, and initial cost savings [...]
The Blu-ray disc format got another win today as Paramount Pictures announced they will release movies in Blu-ray as well as HD-DVD if no unified format comes out (which probably would be bad for consumers anyhow, just let Blu-ray win). Warner Brothers and Universal Studios are expected to make the same announcement soon (seems they [...]
I was going to post a link to a story tonight, but somebody beat me to it in the comments. You can get the link there, or here…
There is an op-ed piece at Ars Technica which talks about the financial aspects of the next generation of DVD formats. They admit fully it is an op-ed [...]
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