Feb 18 2008
BluRay Wins
Over the past two months a number of stories have come out about HD DVD and BluRay. All signs are pointing to a win for BluRay over HD DVD. When Warner announced they were switching to BluRay, that was a huge blow to the HD DVD format.
Most recently, Netflix announced they’re not going to be buying anymore HD DVD for their inventory. Also Best Buy said they’re going to begin steering customers towards BluRay. And now there’s a rumor that says Toshiba will cease production of HD DVD players.
Every now and then Ogre and I discuss it, but it’s not something I have a personal investment in yet. I’m usually slow in getting new technology and with competing formats, I know never to become an early adopter because it’s a real gamble.
Early adopters almost always end up getting screwed. And even if you did happen to choose BluRay, now there’s news about different versions (profiles) of BluRay. Early versions won’t be able to do some things that new versions/profiles can. I’ve already read an article about how a man is filing a lawsuit over this and he intends for it to be a class-action lawsuit soon.
Still, I don’t really have any intention to buy a BluRay player yet, not until the profile stuff is sorted out and is less confusing. Hell, I still haven’t got an HDTV yet, so I’ll save my money for that stuff for another year and retire my old TV and maybe upgrade to BluRay. There aren’t many DVDs out in that format anyway.
[…] Original post by James Chamberlin […]
Told you it’d win 🙂 But, the problem now for Blu-Ray is online download services, particularly services like Xbox Live that offer high-def movies for download. One good thing for high-def is the fact the TVs keep getting cheaper. And I agree with you that people need to wait for the next generation of Blu-Ray.
When I was watching CNN, I saw news about Amazon pushing BluRay in the ticker. I’m not sure why this was announced now that HD DVD is dead,
Yeah. And Wal-Mart and Best Buy are phasing out HD-DVD altogether, which means there will be good deals on the HD-DVD movie discs. Hmm…might find a bargain, but somehow I bet the movie studios will have something to say about that. They’d rather see discs destroyed than sold lower than what they want them to sell for.
That’s exactly what killed the HD DVD format. They were supposed to be lower cost than Blu-Ray, since the production cost was to be more like that of regular DVDs.
Shot themselves in the foot, or is it both feet in this case?… 😛
I haven’t seen many sales for the HD DVDs, but I did see some on the actual players (Toshiba’s). TigerDirect is selling the Toshiba for about $90 and includes to movies and rebate for several more.