And reading some of your posts you appear to be also. You seem to have a very narrow mind for BR. In fact if its all as good as you say why are we in a format war?
You seriously think we have this format war because there's something inherently "wrong" about Blu-ray? And Toshiba and Microsoft which are the main companys behind HD-DVD are the only ones to understand this while all the other CE giants (Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sharp, Samsung etc.) and all major movie studios (except Universal) are too blind to see? Wow...
What this "war" is really all about is money, of course. To be more precise, the license fees that everyone who releases a Blu-ray disc or a HD-DVD has to pay. Historically, Toshiba has made huge amounts of money from DVD license fees because they have a big part of that license pool. When the technology that has become Blu-ray was presented to the DVD forum, Toshiba didn't like it because their license share would have been way smaller. So they proposed their own format, largely based on DVD technology/patents, which eventually became HD-DVD, and the other companys founded the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). As both formats were further developed, everybody knew it wouldn't be a good idea to have two formats because consumer confusion would slow down establishing Hi-def in the market. Just as Toshiba was, due to the overwhelming support for Blu-ray, finally ready to cave in and talk about merging the formats, Microsoft became their knight in shining armour and provided substantial backing, financially and otherwise. As for
their motives, it's clear that a runaway success of Blu-ray would have made the PS3 a far more attractive console. Plus a lot of people think that MS actually wants this war to linger on, keeping
both formats down until Hi-def downloads take off, provided by Microsoft, of course...
So you see, I'm not narrow-minded at all. I think both formats would have been "good enough" if there would never have been a "war". As it is, Blu-ray just has better specs and thus way more potential (more capacity and, almost more importantly, more bandwith). Plus it's more realistic that Blu-ray will actually win so that there'll eventually be just one format, which IMO is really necessary to bring Hi-def to the masses. I really don't want to be stuck with downloadable Hi-def, as the quality, due to storage and bandwith restrictions, won't be nearly as good as what we have today on Blu-ray.
So you claim the war is won thanks to ~140,000 more discs sold. Thats peanuts! I bet Sonys figure includes the half a million they gave away!
Of course not. That's just silly. Do you actually want to have an honest and fact-based conversation about this? Then maybe do some research before posting silly stuff like this.
I also notice you totally ignored my point about the 200+ companies in the DVD forum advocating HD-DVD as the next format.
Most of those are just small companys who don't have any stake in Hi-Def. Also, all of the Blu-ray backers are also still part of the DVD forum because the DVD forum mostly deals with, you guessed it, DVD royalties.
Let me ask
you what anyone except Toshiba and Microsoft has really done for HD-DVD. Face the facts, those are the only companys behind that format and thus they prolong this format war.
Oh, and Sony as well as Disney very recently said that they plan to release 80% of their movies on 50 GB discs in the future. For example both Pirates of the Caribbean movies will be released as 50 GB discs PLUS a 25 GB bonus disc. That's 75 GB for every PotC movie... doesn't sound like 30 GB is enough, does it?
