Who else doesnt like Qj's new interface. You have to click on the article to read more.

if you want to be sure to watch any movie you want, you will need to buy a blu-Ray and HDDVD player (spiderman on bluray, Transformers on HDDVD, and so forth) which is the reason most people wont buy either.

yknow quixxand not everyone who enjoys movie could give a rats ass about games. Therefore the argument you brought up is more valid the other way " every person who buys a HDDVD is another household who wouldn't have a need to buy your PS3's." thats a more sane opinion considering a hddvd can be had for 100bucks.

buying a PS3 is the safest way to get into high def media, for 10 years your going to have somthing to play blu-ray discs

you missed the point buddy...



my post was a response to the HDDVD camp downplaying the effects of the PS3 (and it's pricecut) on the format wars...



with them making a spin on how it has minimal effect cause people who buy game consoles are buying so cause of games and not movies, even adamantly insisting that PS3 sales shouldn't count as a Blu Ray hardware sale... i just said that no matter how they spin it evey person who has bought a PS3 equals to one household who doesn't need their HDDVD players to enjoy HiDef movies... so it does count cause household penetration is what's important... and if it doesn't count then who the hell are buying all those Blu Ray movies!!!!!



i didn't say that to enjoy movies you should buy a PS3... did I say that? or did you just imply that i did?

owned.

hddvd/bluray combo drives for PC are now available in japanese markets and is getting cheaper every month. there are now hd-dvd/bdrw combos that also burns bd-r, read hd-dvd and all previous formats for as low as 550 bucks, non burning combo models are also way cheaper. ill be purchasing one later when blank bd-r disks are cheap.



and to the ceo-vp guy above, you are very stupid, havent you looked at the market lately? and what formats the stores prefers? what the stores carries is what the consumers buys! isnt that simple and clear? how can consumers buy a format that store doesnt carry or gives little shelve space?

All i'll do is by paramount and universal films on DVD for my PS3 and everything else on bluray!!

Really its rather a daft format war. Apple has already decided that future laptops will not have a disk drive.

HD DVD is available via the internet and for downloading.

Blu-Ray is bigger and better??

Already on a simple DVD 9 there is so much extra content that we never use.

Languages extras film clips and trailers etc etc etc.

The HD DVD is already more than big enough to handle the highest definition video signal. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both offer high definition.

Extra storage for extra what? Now we can listen and watch what the Actors Auntie made for dinner?

Blu-Ray will win out on the PC purely as here it is useful as a backup medium, but then again online backup is getting more mainstream and I almost forgot external hard drives from 500GB only cost 300 USD.

And as a parting shot future PC's will not even use a hard drive as memory banks are the future so the disk is essentially dead as far as tech is concerned.

This war is to convince the consumers to pick a side and then when it is introduced it will fade out the moment the developers have money in their pockets from the sale of hardware. It will then be replaced by the next level which is already developed but waiting in the sidelines.

By the way I was supervisor on an exhibition show in Hong Kong back in 2000 where we had promo developer cameras with bluetooth. We also had a demostration of camera to gsm to e-mail client via bluetooth. ***** I just remebered thats now on the market.

HD DVD Blu-Ray is a con. its not the next generation its an in between solution.

Agree, except you can find 500GB drives for like 129. I just bought one from Dell.