Disney CEO "makes bed" with Blu-Ray |
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High-Def Digest recently disclosed the transcript of an investor call with Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger, wherein he made his, well, unequivocal support for Blu-ray: "We made our bed with Blu-ray because we believed in that format for a variety of reasons..." Iger lays it down: "the single greatest thing we can do now is not to waffle" in the middle of the (so-called) format wars.Speaking about which, Iger believed that it was that format war, plus the high price point of the players, that was holding back Blu-ray's market performance, but he's willing to predict that those price points will come down by Christmas season. And the other thing he wants to note is that (as far as he can see) the format war really is confined to the US: "In other markets where next-gen DVD is starting to penetrate, Blu-ray is winning, and substantially; so much so there isnÂ’t even a perceived format war."
One of the things High-Def noted of Iger was the guy's "aggressiveness" in the digital media market - example, being the first studio head to embrace iTunes. And now Blu-ray. Wonder if the "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" home video will be out in time for Christmas?
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I went to Target the other day and an employee was dusting off the HD-DVDs on the shelf and replenishing stock of Blu-ray discs on the other.
thats funny. i haven't seen the quality of either, but it does seem like blu-ray has the upperhand unit-wise
we shouldn't even care about this anymore... we've already got our own Blu Ray Player... our living room is already next gen....
them XBots set up is going to be like an ugly octopus with all the add ons their 360 needs just to keep close to the PS3's media functionality... and besides microsoft fail at life trying to make the xbox work.
More like this """Disney-CEO-Making-bacon-with-Blu-ray
aahhaha ahaha lmao that has to be the best comment about the 360 yet. a *****ing octopus lmao
do people hate sont tht much tht they have to side with hd dvd
its obvious tht blu ray is gon win
hd dvd only has 1 exclusive major movie company
it's very obvious that blu-ray will win, i mean, it's already one! done, finshed no more!
i have seen blu-ray drives for the computer, i havn't seen a hd-dvd drive for the pc, is there one?
the future is blu-ray!
I went to best buy the other day and they were moving the blu ray movies to the back while the HD-DVD selection was being moved up front. They also had a nice $499 HD-DVD player for sale.
Does it matter if the XBOX 360 doesn't have the best HD-DVD player? You can get a great HD-DVD player for under $500. Since all the POS3 does is play movies at the moment, it's still a better value.
Oh yeah I forgot you fa-g tards like to believe everything you hear about blu gay from EXCLUSIVE BLU GAY SUPPORTERS. HMM THEY SAY ITS WINNING NO CONTSET EVERYWHERE SURE LET'S BELEVE HIM, DISNEY, HE SEEMS NICE. HEAD OF A MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, YOUR HERO! WHAT A NICE GUY. SUCK HIS DI*K TOO, I HEARD HE LOVES THE CHILDREN, PROBABLY A LITTLE TOO MUCH IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN HINT HINT....
blu ray is outselling hd dvd by over 3 to 1.... i bet microsoft will jump ship in a few months
You must have visited the only Best Buy in the country where that is the case.
Let me ask you a question. Have you purchased one of those $500 HD-DVD players?
Have you ever watched an HD-DVD? I am really curious to know the answer to that question.
Hey its only a Disc!
blu ray is already backed by most major companies now it has disney its obvious which disk is going to be the best
Well do people love sony so much they buy whatever they want to sell you and do you believe whatever they tell you? Just read the comments here!
Did consumers ask for memory sticks? What's wrong with SD, compact flash, MMC, or Xd? Then they release multiple memory stick versions that are incompatible!
Did consumers ask for mini disc? That failed everywhere but Japan.
Did consumers want movies on UMD? Aparently no. Sony was even going to try to release music on UMDs at one point (a feature in 1.52 PSP firmware). Yeah, they are that stupid and arrogant.
The only good media sony ever invented is the compact disc, and they should have stopped there.
Did Consumers ever say HD-DVD sucks, I wish sony would come along and make something different so that some movies would not be available on the player they bought and there would be another format war and everyone basically gets screwed in some way so sony can try to make more money?
Yet you are cheering them on.
Yay! Go sony! Keep it up! Do it again next time too! We like getting shafted as consumers! Make sure you sell us an overpriced movie player disguiesed as a game console too! But it's not overpriced, it's such a value; it's a 10 year investment, if somebody doesn't buy it it's because they can't afford it yeah!
Fox, one of the biggest blu ray supporters, already tries to control the media via fox news, and if anybody thinks that's a legitimate news organization, they need to get their head checked. It's obvious fox is using their manipulative influence to convince consumers that blu ray is winning a format war that really has not even started.
If people don't hate sony for that, they should, especially the way they and the blu ray association are trying to force the market rather than let consumers make the choice. A couple months of better sales cannot make a blu ray victory ,nor can a few more exclusive studios.
Why the hell would someone purchase a $499 HD-DVD player when you can get a PS3 for only $100 more?
Or even find a 20 GB PS3 for the same price?
Dumbass. You're either lying or are at the only BB in the country where that's occurring.
I don't care if Sony products will EVENTUALLY win. All I care about is rite now. And RIGHT NOW, the only good sony products (in my opinion) are Blu-ray players and their HD camcorders. So until their PS3 wins in the long run, "I'll just keep playing my three-six-tee!"
(That last quote was from the PS3 song)
You are completely correct! I am amazed that you are capable of that kind of thought. You XBOX monkeys, and I am not talking to the level headed XBOX owners, are mostly incapable of logical thoughts.
You forgot one thing, though! You would have a total of $900 into your movie and game setup. Your $400 XBOX is undeniably cheaper than a PS3. But you will also have $500 into your HD-DVD player. On top of that if you want to use HDMI for your XBOX. Well, you get the idea. At least I hope so.
it's all over for hd-dvd... A name like disney says Yes to Bluray, no to HDdvd.. What are all the parents in the country going to buy?? Something that won't play disney movies?? HAHAHA... Yeah right!
And what is with the anti sony rant fanboytastic.... Dude... Sony has been trying and trying for years to be INNOVATIVE... That's what makes the big money, coming up with something new. Some of them have failed, some have been wildly successful. But if you don't want to buy it, don't! How are they shoving anything down your throat?? You don't have to buy a ps3, or a bd player... Hell, you can keep watching dvds forever if you want... But there will only be one choice in high def movies, and its bluray...
It has been over for hd-dvd........please understand the power of content!!!!
disney seals the cake with this format war, now "the family" will have to purchase a BRDVD player a couple years down the road, maybe they will be able to kill 2 birds at once and buy the ps3 their kid wants for christmas and get a blu ray player at the same time.
xbox360 elite 2 to be released spring 2008. It will have a built in blu ray player and finally wireless internet and bluetooth. it will sell for $650. lmao. poor xbox fanboys.
u are a *****, and a 360 *****tard
Common sense, ya whatever, Disney has always supported BD. Been living under a rock have you? I am sure your right though, my kids are constantly coming up to me and saying they won't watch Cars and Monsters unless it's in high definition. Talk about a bunch of ****tards.
Very good point. Now who is REALLY getting shafted?
Blu-ray is cool.
So is HD-DVD.
Live with it.
Sooner or later one will win - for now shut the F**k up all of you!
This is a PS3 site, what are all you PS3 haters doing on here?
Clearly you all have nothing better to do, otherwise youo wouldn't be on a PS3 site complaining.
You don't like Blu-ray, fine go complain somewhere else.
But for those of us who do, we don't want to hear you babies complaining your a**es off over what Format wins - hello!
IT'S STILL DAMN EARLY!
If sony still had a $500 PS3 it could be a better value. I still don't understand why anybody would buy into a HD movie player until you can get a stand alone player under $200 and movies under $20. I don't even buy DVDs unless they're like $5.
That's what disney does, make huge profits any way it can. One way is to convince kids to go to disneyland! What's admission now? $60 a pop? How about those outragous disney store prices? Try taking the kids to the mall and avoding going by that place. Then they have to re-release the same movies 100 times because they're the only company that can get away with it.
Walt Disney would be rolling over in his grave if he saw what happed to his company.
thats why people mess up their systems because they use it as blu-raid plyers and dvd players. I really like what microsoft did believe it or not seeling the product as an accesory on the side. I also have to add that because it is connected thru an USB cable im pretty sure some of the resolution is lost. also overheard Blu-raid is not doing porn which is prob about 85% of dvd revenue
I have an HDTV. DVD's are an inferior media now. I purchased my TV for its superior image quality. Why would I want to use a form of media that can't use my TV the way that it is meant to be used? IMHO BD will be the winner so why wait?
It's also on Gadgets.qj.net
You almost got the PS3 Site only right.
PS3 Haters are here because "XBots" get flamed all the time for just owning a 360.
I mean, I'm just checking out Gadget and read the comments. I own a 360 and a HD-DVD player. I do not own a PS3, I have 1 friend who has a PS3 and I have 14 friends who own at least one 360 and 3 of them own two or more.
I mean I got a 360 first out of my friends because I stood in line 19 hours for mine. (I waited 21 hours for a Wii) and I ALMOST waited in line for PS3 to sell my spot in line. (But then I would have been tired as hell for the Wii Launch.)
I play my 360 at least 3-4 hours a day, I own 13 HD-DVD titles, and I go to Fry's Electronics and their HD-DVD library holds around 65+ Titles of HD-DVD and around 55+ Blu-Ray titles. (The Fry's in the Renton area has a frozen PS3s that never seems to want to work, Its NOT ONLY a Demo/KIOSK unit, it also has a Retail PS3 there to play, but never seems to want to work correctly, been man handled too much)
But yes, It is pretty early.
Buy what you want to play, and if its readily available *like for me* to get HD-DVDs for cheap or Blu-Ray for cheap, go ahead, either way you have a 50/50 chance that your format may be rejected. (Hell, we may even have a 3rd format sometime later.)
Time can only tell.