blue-ray wining out?

warner annouced its support for blu ray, and shortly there after new line cinema did.

all but two of the major players are on blue ray now. (universal and paramount)

 

dont care because i cant afford either or a hdtv, haha...

but wow, that would be a win for sony. they lost about every format war and the ps3 needs something to do besides being a door stop.

 

i could see this coming back when blockbuster signed to rent out blu-ray.

it's the same thing that happened with vhs and beta. rental companies started renting vhs instead of beta because the vhs could hold 2 hours of movie. when people were actually renting, that enticed them to buy vcr's and made beta worthless.

looks like i'll be getting a PS3 on the next price drop. sucks for those who gambled on HD-Dvd

 

guess its a good thing i kept my doorstop PS3 console

 

Im still gonna say, if microsoft throws enough money at the problem it will eventually go away. I think blu-ray is getting a better market share cause its name sounds cooler.

the above post was no way an endourcement for hd-dvd

 

or microsoft could also come out with an external blu-ray player for the 360.

 

a competitors product?

that would be like microsoft releasing a driver that allows one to read ext3....its just wrong and wouldnt happen.

 

its a way to make money.

 

well I love my blue ray it looks so much better than normal dvd players. Got it on sale over christmas for 289 normaly 499

 

I may end up getting a PS3, or waiting for a price drop on Blue Ray players. We broke in my 46" Aquos by watching Tears Of The Sun on Blue Ray on my friend's PS3. Holy crap.

 

I just bought a 45 dollar DVD player at Walmart. It looks great on my 27 inch CRT TV.

 

We bought a blu-ray a few months ago, and it was worth every penny. Along with hi-def cable, everything else just looks grainy now, text is hard to read. Didn't notice most of the time until we bought the better unit.

VHS=stone age

 

I'd probably get a PS3 sometime in the future...when it's much cheaper and probably a used one...just to play GT. :-D Double as a Blu-ray player? OK!

 

a ps3 is not a dvd player. it might play it, but using it as a hi-def resource is like using a cone on a stick and calling it an intake

 

I will be glad when the whole format war is done with. I don't know about you guys but I bought my 360 to play games, if I bought a PS3 it would be for games. I would much rather have a dedicated device. So once the dust settles I will go out and by my self a blu ray player or a HD player.

 

the only reason i used to have a ps2 and use it for a dvd player is because i hated having too many remotes. now they universal remotes that can fix that.

 

keepin' it real.

 

I think that the price of HD-DVD is going to drop now to an affordable price since retailers will most likely be looking to get rid of them, which could either drive a price war and blue-ray will have to reduce as well. This will either lead to a wide adoption of HD-DVD if blue-ray doesn't drop the price of the hardware.

 

Only problem with blu-ray is that it costs more to produce/make a blu-ray movie(versus and HD-DVD). Which in turn makes a blu-ray disc cost more.

 

Price always wins. If the HD-DVD manufacturers can keep the prices low enough to get average consumers buying them, then they've got something.

Beta was a superior format. VHS won because it was cheap. And porn. Porn did a lot for the adoption of VHS