Hollywood wins with Blue-Ray, because the PS3 alone is going to push the next-gen movie format much harder and much faster than HD-DVD could ever hope to on it's own. So Sony controls distrobution instead of Toshiba controlling distrobution. Whats the difference there? With an accelerated adoption rate and the superior format Hollywood wins out big. GG.

The man is saying that he doesn't like how their being forced into choosing sides so abruptly instead of past situations where the proven format beats out. I personally am rooting for HD-DVD. Sony puts too much in the way of protection on their devics and it really bugs me.

Microsoft is getting really desprate. lawl at them. LAWL I say.

They are backing the losing format.

Love the phrase "It isn't the way we compete in the West."... Pardon???

Kill or be killed is always the way of corps. Or steal and due to being a big corp smaller one gets destroyed and looses their stuff.

As for them not wanting to take sides, they don't have to. Sony is releasing their movies on Blu-Ray disk, so, then either put them on Blu's or HD-DVD, or even the HDVD's. Sony is putting movies on PSP formatted disks, do other company's have to, nope, but if they want to sell more movies, they can.

As for the HD-DVD, that will be dead unless M$ gets a major corp behind them and starts mass producing the disks, and then ACTUALLY PUT THE DRIVE IN THE BLOODY 360!!!

Sony has always stated they are moving the PS to be the hub of Entertainment Center in a home. Being gaming station, movie station, etc. So, this is a suprise to people?

As for the Art of War... all major corps do it, just quieter, or slightly different, but the end result is the same.

PAYOLA

This guy is desperate because Sony is not doing it the MS way? Are you kidding me? How dare this looser go out n say support HD-DVD when the technology is way past it. Its like saying support a 5 1/2" Floppy instead of a CD. I cant believe he is *****ing about how Sony has literally PWNED everyone w/ BLU RAY and hese like...well we dont do it this way. well ****got i got one thing to tell ya, your a buncha backstabbers too, so dont tell me you dont act like samurais becuz ur products suck. I would kill this guy if i could.

Copy protection hurts consumers.

Wha... How?! The only thing copy protection hurts is piracy; admittedly I have downloaded some movies at times, but not being able to rip some crappy hollywood movie doesn't hurt CONSUMERS in the least. And don't gimme that "legitimate backup" BS. We all know that's fake.

But I doubt Bandwidth can keep up with the new formats, Imagine downloading a 45 gig Blue-Ray DVD rather than a 4.5 gig DVD...

Well, if you're downloading the movie for free, you'll have to wait. P2P'ers can't be choosers, in that sense. And if you are referring to something along the lines of iTunes... Why wait when you could buy the disk, if it means that much to you?

Actually, Blu-Ray does support copying the image of the disc to you hard drive, it just doesn't require it as a feature for every disc as HD-DVD does. This is why HP is threatening to leave; they want it mandatory. Blu-Ray is actually (according to reports) quite good at creating a copy onto the hard drive or streaming. Just not required.

Wrong copy protections have major effect on piracy. have you even seen starforce protected games. people have been going on and on about how much starforce is bull**** becauset hey can play burned games.

Some burned games work that have starforce but starfroce has effectively decreased the number of pirated copies.

With the new version you acually have to remove the cables from your cd-drives to use images and even then it requires a custom install of starforce software.

All blue-ray has to do is use the same system fro pcs. Use a starforce like protection that installs drivers and requires them to play. Combine a system based required software and protection on the cd and you will cut piracy of movies like you wont believe.

I know about sonys music rootkit and i believe it was the best thing ever if they got it to work exclusively with their files and not everything. I know sony wont stop developing anti-piracy software, every company does. Its only a matter of time before sony uses a new type of software on their music cds.

Blueray may not be as fast as HD-DVD but let me ak you this, how many of us need to read blue-ray at more then 4x. Its created for next gen movies with higher capacity needs. the PS3 wont be any better with a a drive thats blazing fast. A PC wont benifit from a blazing fast BR drive if the hard drives dont support the speed.

Vietone, what version of starforce is that and what games use it? I havent encountered it.

Stop posting yoru ****in Opinions you patriotic American patsies and accept that PS3 is god.

Im gonna wait and see which is better. let the big corps fuss and whine about that crap. just because someone writes that this one does this and that one does that dosent mean its the actual truth.. just wait til they come out.. try them both.. and then decide for yourself. Just a suggestion all