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Talks about Blu-Ray and HD DVD hybrid players resurface |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Fortune, gaming accessories, media player, Taiwan, Toshiba
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This year's Consumer Electronics Show somewhat served as the battle arena for the on-going war between disc formats Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. It would be remembered that it was in that show where chip manufacturer Broadcom revealed decoder chip capable of decoding both Blu-ray and HD DVD video. As next year's show in Last Vegas draws near, rumors about a hybrid player resurface.Interestingly, the said war has been an exciting thing to behold. According to industry players, the winner will be decided in two years when two formats finally gain ground. Taiwan doesn't approve of creating hybrid players but there have been hushed talks about companies Toshiba and Samsung combining technology to create one. All this while, small company VidaBox quietly introduced the LUX and MAX Systems.
Now, where is this war heading? Will there be an eventual victor or are we going to see a fusion of technology. If we are going to take the road that leads to merging of technology, there can actually be two scenarios:
- One media player with a single drive, capable of playing both formats
- One media player with both a Blu-ray and HD DVD drive installed
Via ArsTechnica
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Both are of equal quality right now and movies cost exactly the same price with Blue-ray have some cheaper older titles.
Blue-ray has the advantage of advertisement.
Any person can walk into a store and see High Def movies on their own but the fact remains, if you dont go into stores and you goto a friends house who owns a PS3 or Blue-ray player and watch a movie on a good TV, thats better advertisement then best buy can do anyday.
Blue-ray and HD DVD have similar movie support with Sony being able to push out more Sony Picture Films while Toshiba has to rely on their movie studios.
Blue-ray also has almost the entire porn industry backing them up and this might be the decision maker like it was with VHS.
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how are 360 fans gonna bash the ps3?
how are ps3 fans gonna bash the 360?
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its true....the fact that the PS3 already has Blu-ray...that means should 70% of the 100MILLION PS2 owners upgrade into a PS3 there would a Whoopin 70million Blu-Ray Drives....Hd-dvd cannot even Dream to get close.
Sony did not exaxtly lose in the Betemax format...they lost the HomeVideo market....but proffesional studios kept using...and sony more than recouped its Investment in it.
its also true...a hesistant consumer.....when watchin the quality of blu-ray in a freinds house...will almost certainly decide...in the end...to invest in a ps3.....it make sense....it can play games and movies...it can connect online.....its a multi-media center....and...ofcourse...it retails for as low as 500$.
this...and the 100million ps2 owners who will upgrade to a ps3....will be bigger than any advertizing that hddvd can acheive.
p.s: ps3 owners will not wait 2 years to support blu-ray.....we have to ensure that blu-ray succeds...because that means sony will be able to produce blu-ray technology faster and cheaper as it grows more mainstream....thus ps3 prices drops also.
so Ps3 ownerz....start investing in blu-ray
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