FINALLY! High Definition Format War is pretty much over!!!

February 17th, 2008 | email this | digg it
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EDIT: 2.19.07… THE FORMAT WAR IS OVER: http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/technology/toshiba.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008021904 

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Looks like we will start to invest in some Blu-Ray burners soon (when the faster burners come down a little more and quality printable BluRay Discs are available) and start distributing all the HD Upgrades to the clients who selected this option.  FINALLY!!!!  (Glad I sold my HD-DVD player a few weeks ago!)

Most important to read:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKL1643184420080217

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/16/toshiba-pulling-the-plug-on-hd-dvd-already/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080216/tc_nm/toshiba_hd_dvd_exit_dc_2

Other interesting articles to support this…

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/wal-mart-to-officially-discontinue-hd-dvd-sales-by-june/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/11/best-buys-pushing-blu-ray-to-the-front/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/11/netflix-picks-blu-ray-good-luck-renting-an-hd-dvd-soon/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/blu-ray-players-grab-93-percent-of-market-after-warner-went-blu/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/study-shows-that-blu-ray-sales-are-killin-in-japan/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/universal-hd-dvd-exclusivity-contract-has-expired-sits-non-rene/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/sources-say-universal-and-paramount-are-both-going-blu/

2 Responded To This Post

mygif
2109. advancedvideo said in March 16th, 2008

I agree with you that the HD war seems to be over, but I wouldn’t run out an get a Blue Ray burner just yet. As I understand it, there are still a lot of changes Sony has to make to their burners to really make them worth while. In some ways HD DVD was ahead of Blue Ray, but for some reason they lost the PR war. Sony has been upgrading their burners and players at a snails pace. I’m still waiting, because I don’t want to put out the cash to buy a current burner and then have them put out another great upgrade three months later making my burner obsolete. The dust hasn’t settled yet, and we don’t know what else may happen. Hopefully it will all be resolved soon enough.

mygif
2110. jcloninger said in March 16th, 2008

I totally agree with you. I’m just happy there is a standard finally. I have been successful in creating BluRay Content onto standard redlaser DVD-R Single Layer, but only about 30 minutes of h.264 can fit. I did this with Nero and I know it can be difficult in some computers producing it. I’m still waiting on an actual burner to come that burns quicker and less expensive. MY clients aren’t screaming for their HD delivery yet (the ones that purchased the upgrade in prior years) so I’m waiting for burners… Also waiting on Taiyo Yuden to make watershield Blu-Ray media because the watershield is my standard media for DVDs as they just look very impressive and are really reliable.

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