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Slow and steady: how Blu-ray and HD DVD formats will prevail |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: gaming accessories, Sony, Sony Pictures
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High definition is the new trend that supporters of the HD DVD and the Blu-ray format are calling for. According to reports, the high definition format market is slowly on the rise with new titles being converted to either format and increasing sales for their respective companies.While the odds of the format war are still stacked against the high def camps' favor, recent polls asking whether people are willing to buy next gen players and if those people with high def players are satisfied with the quality of their videos both answered a resounding positive feedback.
Looking at some numbers, however, standard-definition upconverting DVD players still dominate the market with a 27% share on a unit basis, while high-def only has a 5% hold. It was also noted that less than half of PS3 users actually use their consoles to watch Blu-ray films.
Russ Crupnick, Vice President and Senior Industry Analyst for NPD Group, still believes that once people try going high-def, they will become the cheerleaders for the new formats. He goes on saying this:
How do we go from confusion to forecasts that say that in a few years half the market will be high-def? ItÂ’s the experiences of people with next-gen. About 90% [of those recently polled] said they were extremely satisfied with their next-gen player purchase. You donÂ’t usually see those kinds of numbers.
The HD DVD camp also advocated the interactive features and the high definition quality that its new formats will be using to draw in the market. Don Eklund, executive VP of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, also mentioned that the PS3 will be offering a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functionality. However, as of now, it's something that people are still considering whether or not they should jump on the high-def bandwagon.
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No,
one of them will, the other will fail miserably, in this case it will be HD-DVD. Blu-Ray will win, end of.
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"Don Eklund, executive VP of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, also mentioned that the PS3 will be offering a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functionality."
i'm not sure what kind of features needs to be added to watch movies. maybe it's one of many things to be revealed in firmware 2.0
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And The strong will survive and the weak shall perish.
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Every intelligent person knows that DVD will be phased out completely from stores in coming years. This is like how VHS was phased out by DVD.
I believe, as I am sure many of you do also, that the proper article should be Bluray vs. HD-DVD. I think that blu ray will win not because of the PS3 or anything like that but because it is a superior format.
The guy at blockbuster annoys me because he always says that paramount is with HD-DVD and so bluray won't win. I say that paramount will switch to Bluray or go out of business.
Lastly I remember watching a show that was made in 1997 and they were talking about how this guy (building a home theater) should get a DVD player because it was better by far than VHS. Look at what happened then.
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As for who will win (HDDVD vs BLURAY)...well I hope it's BLURAY (only because I already have five bluray titles). I think we'll also see a bigger move into hi-def once with the ever decreasing prices on hi-def displays...still just too expensive at the moment but with another decrease of around 25-45% I see a larger market adopting them just before they get hi-def players (otherwise why would people want a hi-def source?).
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