And the Winner is - BLU-RAY - Yay!!!

I got a playstation 3 today, as well as Disney's Dinosaur and the game
"Resistance", and BOY am I impressed....awesome images and the game was
SCARY and like a movie almost....

Nowadays, I look at logic and long trends, not superficial short term
hype, and almost everything points to Blu-ray burying HD-DVD.

Points:

1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD

2. Blu-ray discs are outselling HD-DVD discs right now by more than
3x... why? See next point:

3. Because of the playstation 3, there are several times more Blu-ray
players than HD-DVD players in the market, so the potential customer
base of blu-ray is already several times larger than HD-DVD (about 80%
of playstation buyers say they will start purchasing blu-ray movies)!!!

* plus, Blu-ray player/recorder manufacturers include HUGE companies
like Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, etc, all of whom are much
bigger than Toshiba (which produces HDD-DVD). You think these guys are
gonna lose?

4. FIVE big movie studios are releasing ONLY in blu-ray, including
DISNEY, SONY, and 20th Century Fox.

Can you imagine anyone buying an HD-DVD player that will never play The
Lion King, Toy Story, or any other Disney movie? What about Sony and
Spiderman? or 20th century fox and Star Wars? Etc Etc.

5. There are now 200 GB blu-ray discs in research and 100 GB discs in
commercial development...HD-DVD will not even come close to this.


SO:

The CONTENT advantage is in Blu-ray's side
The STORAGE advantage is on Blu-ray's side
The SIZE (manufacturers, number of proponents) advantage is on
Blu-ray's side.

Sure, an HD-DVD player is cheaper, but what the hell are you going to
PLAY on it? It's just a big dead door stop without content. And with TV
and other high-end appliances nowadays running into the high hundreds
or thousands, getting a Blu-ray player AND game console for half a
thousand just makes good sense....

So, if toshiba runs out of money and gives up on HD-DVD what happens to
all the people who bought HD-DVD?

asjbiotek@gmail.com

<> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
>I got a playstation 3 today, as well as Disney's Dinosaur

u lost me at disney's dinosaur. LOL

Mattuzzi

viral advertising.....

ushere

ushere wrote:

> viral advertising.....

....Sony?? They'd NEVER do anything like that on a Usenet/blog!!

Derek Janssen (it'd be like saying there's no David Manning!)

Derek Janssen

asjbio...@gmail.com wrote:

> 1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD

Incorrect.

144 HD-DVD releases:
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/relea...istorical.html

vs. 130 Blu-Ray titles:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/rele...istorical.html

I forgot, new stuff comes out today...

http://w.engadgethd.com/2007/01/15/h...ary-16th-2007/

HD DVD 154 vs Blu-ray 137.

> 3. Because of the playstation 3, there are several times more Blu-ray
> players than HD-DVD players in the market, so the potential customer
> base of blu-ray is already several times larger than HD-DVD (about 80%
> of playstation buyers say they will start purchasing blu-ray movies)!!!

That same logic says that people should be buying UMD movies. After
all, there are close to 20 million PSP's out there... Oops. Nobody is
buying them for UMD movies.

The problem for UMD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is the same. The title
selection sucks. Until there is a Matrix level killer ap we won't see
one format eclipse the other, much less eclipse DVD. When will that be?
Spider-Man 3 on Blu-Ray sometime in 2008? I don't think either format
will last that long unless there's a killer ap before then.

> 5. There are now 200 GB blu-ray discs in research and 100 GB discs in
> commercial development...HD-DVD will not even come close to this.

Irrelevant since they can't seem to actively produce 50GB discs.

HD-DVD 3 layer discs are now at... 51GB. Intentional? You bet.

http://www.itnewsonline.com/showstor...tid=3&contid=2

- Jordan

Jordan

troll
<> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
>I got a playstation 3 today, as well as Disney's Dinosaur and the game
> "Resistance", and BOY am I impressed....awesome images and the game was
> SCARY and like a movie almost....
>
> Nowadays, I look at logic and long trends, not superficial short term
> hype, and almost everything points to Blu-ray burying HD-DVD.
>
> Points:
>
> 1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD
>
> 2. Blu-ray discs are outselling HD-DVD discs right now by more than
> 3x... why? See next point:
>
> 3. Because of the playstation 3, there are several times more Blu-ray
> players than HD-DVD players in the market, so the potential customer
> base of blu-ray is already several times larger than HD-DVD (about 80%
> of playstation buyers say they will start purchasing blu-ray movies)!!!
>
> * plus, Blu-ray player/recorder manufacturers include HUGE companies
> like Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, etc, all of whom are much
> bigger than Toshiba (which produces HDD-DVD). You think these guys are
> gonna lose?
>
> 4. FIVE big movie studios are releasing ONLY in blu-ray, including
> DISNEY, SONY, and 20th Century Fox.
>
> Can you imagine anyone buying an HD-DVD player that will never play The
> Lion King, Toy Story, or any other Disney movie? What about Sony and
> Spiderman? or 20th century fox and Star Wars? Etc Etc.
>
> 5. There are now 200 GB blu-ray discs in research and 100 GB discs in
> commercial development...HD-DVD will not even come close to this.
>
>
> SO:
>
> The CONTENT advantage is in Blu-ray's side
> The STORAGE advantage is on Blu-ray's side
> The SIZE (manufacturers, number of proponents) advantage is on
> Blu-ray's side.
>
> Sure, an HD-DVD player is cheaper, but what the hell are you going to
> PLAY on it? It's just a big dead door stop without content. And with TV
> and other high-end appliances nowadays running into the high hundreds
> or thousands, getting a Blu-ray player AND game console for half a
> thousand just makes good sense....
>
> So, if toshiba runs out of money and gives up on HD-DVD what happens to
> all the people who bought HD-DVD?
>

Dan

<> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
>I got a playstation 3 today, as well as Disney's Dinosaur and the game
> "Resistance", and BOY am I impressed....awesome images and the game was
> SCARY and like a movie almost....
>
> Nowadays, I look at logic and long trends, not superficial short term
> hype, and almost everything points to Blu-ray burying HD-DVD.
>
> Points:
>
> 1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD
>
> 2. Blu-ray discs are outselling HD-DVD discs right now by more than
> 3x... why? See next point:
>
> 3. Because of the playstation 3, there are several times more Blu-ray
> players than HD-DVD players in the market, so the potential customer
> base of blu-ray is already several times larger than HD-DVD (about 80%
> of playstation buyers say they will start purchasing blu-ray movies)!!!
>
> * plus, Blu-ray player/recorder manufacturers include HUGE companies
> like Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, etc, all of whom are much
> bigger than Toshiba (which produces HDD-DVD). You think these guys are
> gonna lose?
>
> 4. FIVE big movie studios are releasing ONLY in blu-ray, including
> DISNEY, SONY, and 20th Century Fox.
>
> Can you imagine anyone buying an HD-DVD player that will never play The
> Lion King, Toy Story, or any other Disney movie? What about Sony and
> Spiderman? or 20th century fox and Star Wars? Etc Etc.
>
> 5. There are now 200 GB blu-ray discs in research and 100 GB discs in
> commercial development...HD-DVD will not even come close to this.
>
>
> SO:
>
> The CONTENT advantage is in Blu-ray's side
> The STORAGE advantage is on Blu-ray's side
> The SIZE (manufacturers, number of proponents) advantage is on
> Blu-ray's side.
>
> Sure, an HD-DVD player is cheaper, but what the hell are you going to
> PLAY on it? It's just a big dead door stop without content. And with TV
> and other high-end appliances nowadays running into the high hundreds
> or thousands, getting a Blu-ray player AND game console for half a
> thousand just makes good sense....
>
> So, if toshiba runs out of money and gives up on HD-DVD what happens to
> all the people who bought HD-DVD?
>
What? Are you testing the sound system? are you OK? Someone call an
ambulance....

Buchetamo

Our unacquainted friend '' enlightened us thusly:

> Nowadays, I look at logic and long trends, not superficial short term
> hype, and almost everything points to Blu-ray burying HD-DVD.

WTF cares? I still will NOT buy it.
DVD is cool enough! After a couple of years I'll buy the cheaper and/or the
better hacked system. lol

thx

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<> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
>I got a playstation 3 today, as well as Disney's Dinosaur and the game
> "Resistance", and BOY am I impressed....awesome images and the game was
> SCARY and like a movie almost....
>
> Nowadays, I look at logic and long trends, not superficial short term
> hype, and almost everything points to Blu-ray burying HD-DVD.
>
> Points:
>
> 1. There are already more movie titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD
>
> 2. Blu-ray discs are outselling HD-DVD discs right now by more than
> 3x... why? See next point:
>
> 3. Because of the playstation 3, there are several times more Blu-ray
> players than HD-DVD players in the market, so the potential customer
> base of blu-ray is already several times larger than HD-DVD (about 80%
> of playstation buyers say they will start purchasing blu-ray movies)!!!
>
> * plus, Blu-ray player/recorder manufacturers include HUGE companies
> like Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Philips, etc, all of whom are much
> bigger than Toshiba (which produces HDD-DVD). You think these guys are
> gonna lose?
>
> 4. FIVE big movie studios are releasing ONLY in blu-ray, including
> DISNEY, SONY, and 20th Century Fox.

Well HD-DVD hs Universal exclusively as well as Warnr Bros. and Paramount on
both BD and HD-DVD. Not bad.
>
> Can you imagine anyone buying an HD-DVD player that will never play The
> Lion King, Toy Story, or any other Disney movie?

Ya I did. My kids don't need HD-DVD. My 5 year old is cool with VHS Disney
on a 10" screen in her bedroom. Get real.

What about Sony and
> Spiderman? or 20th century fox and Star Wars? Etc Etc.
>
> 5. There are now 200 GB blu-ray discs in research and 100 GB discs in
> commercial development...HD-DVD will not even come close to this.
>
>
> SO:
>
> The CONTENT advantage is in Blu-ray's side
> The STORAGE advantage is on Blu-ray's side
> The SIZE (manufacturers, number of proponents) advantage is on
> Blu-ray's side.
>
> Sure, an HD-DVD player is cheaper, but what the hell are you going to
> PLAY on it?

Universal, Paramount and Warner Bros.

It's just a big dead door stop without content. And with TV
> and other high-end appliances nowadays running into the high hundreds
> or thousands, getting a Blu-ray player AND game console for half a
> thousand just makes good sense....
>
> So, if toshiba runs out of money and gives up on HD-DVD what happens to
> all the people who bought HD-DVD?

Erm....Sony's running out of money - oopsie.
>

RKRM

Mattuzzi wrote:
> <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>
>>I got a playstation 3 today

(And WON-der where he got it, folks?)

> as well as Disney's Dinosaur
>
> u lost me at disney's dinosaur. LOL

And even though Sony's free-lance hireling may have been acting alone on
his little grassy knoll (wow, post our deceptive dirty work for us,
treat your net-peers like gullible idiots, and get 30 pieces of PS3!)...

....Could there be anything SIGNIFICANT in that his Completely Voluntary,
Balanced, and Unbiased Opinions appeared less than 24 hours after Home
Theater Forum had its post-CES/pro-HD chat with Microsoft's rep Kevin
Collins?:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articl...07htfchat.html

Derek Janssen (enthusiasm, idiocy, or just plain panic-overkill?--YOU
make the call)

Derek Janssen