HD-Bluray war offically over

[Zemo]

Well over that last two months it looked over and now it appears to be so.

http://www.reuters.com/article/busin...37974620080216

[mitchedwards]

I'm glad Blu Ray won. Just because I have one.

[cjefferys]

I'm "purple" (format neutral), but I was kind of expecting Blu-ray to eventually win, I just thought it would drag out a bit longer than it did. Of course, Warner going Blu-ray exclusive was a huge blow to Toshiba and seemed to cause a domino effect in the past few weeks (with the decisions that Best Buy, Netflix and now Walmart have made). Oh well, I'm hoping to pick up some HD DVDs for really cheap in the near future.

[toys2cool]

man i had the HD player on my 360,what a waste

[miguet]

I was waiting for the dust to settle to see who came out as the victor before getting either player. Now, I know who officially won.

[MegoSteve]

man i had the HD player on my 360,what a waste

The movies will still play. If anything, look at is as an opportunity to pick up cheap movies (unless the movie studios just accept returns from retailers for credit against Blu-Ray disks).

That said, I'm hoping MS will release a Blu-Ray drive for the 360 so I don't have to buy a PS3, though, frankly, I may just sit the whole high def movie disk thing out in favor of digital delivery.

[the editor]

"Oh no, it wasn't the Sony. It was WAL-Mart killed the beast."

[JPkempo]

It was WB that killed HD-DVD when they went blu-ray that swung the majority of major studios to blu-ray. Following this blockbuster droped hd-dvd and now Wal-mart.
DreamWorks Paramount Universal are still HD-DVD only untill they switch over you won't be able to see all the movies you want to in HD. Transformers is one big one for the likes of us, Heros season one could be another.

for the brake down of the numbers %sales (the biggy), number of titles number of studios list of titles ect. go here:
DVD Empire - HD DVDs, HD DVD Movie, HD DVD Movies, HD DVD Videos

If you want a player click on the amazon banner at the top of the page, you'll be suprised the deal you can get there on players.

If your thinking of adding a blu-ray drive to your computer go here:
Cyberlink Blu-ray & HD DVD Advisor: A free download tool to diagnose whether your PC hardware is Blu-ray and HD DVD ready, from Cyberlink
this program will look at your system and tell you if your system can handle it.

[Hulk]

PS3 News: Toshiba Plans Blu-ray Player, Wal-Mart Ends HD-DVD


Toshiba moving up their own release of a Blu-Ray player seems like a pretty good admission of defeat. I expect Microsoft to do the same with the XBox fairly soon.

[the editor]

Sony needed to win this one. The VHS-Beta war - which I call Sony's Vietnam - proved that they were penetrable. Albeit - to this day most broadcasters still use Sony's rock-solid BetaSP and DigiBeta formats in some capacity - being the blunt of jokes to the public for decades must've stung. And their DVD Handycams didn't take off as expected with people opting to record straight to their hard drives now. So with the whole PS3 fiasco (aka Operation Iraqi Freedom) - and the world domination of Wii's and iPods meant that their Blu-Ray could not fail for the sake of Sony's overall power in the home ent. market. That's my feeling.