Community weekly poll: Who do you predict will win the HD format war?
- 2/6/07 2:50 PM
I don't care .. we'll see HD DVD's in two pack sets
by jamal hafez - 2/7/07 5:26 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
The movie makers will produce standard capacity two disc sets in HD format when they realize the consumer will not buy new HD DVD players.
What's the point ? So, I have to swap disc's half way through the movie but I save on the cost of a new DVD player. Besides that, If I am still real lazy, I'll just get the movie on standard disc anyway as it looks great on my HD TV as it is !
Blue Ray is getting more of the spotlight
by hardik8581 - 2/7/07 5:45 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I was in Circuit City the other day looking for a Blue Ray movie (I own a PS3), and I asked where the blue ray movies were. First the sales rep pointed me to a bin in the back corner of the store. When I went to go look, it was full of HD-DVD movies, but it was kind of hidden in the back. I went back and told him they were HD-DVD and not Blue Ray, and he said he didn't even know there was a difference. So, I went looking around the store, and in the department with all the wide screen HDTV's was a nice display of Blue Ray movies and all the TV's were showing a Blue Ray movie of some kind. It already seemed to me that HD-DVD has lost, and Blue Ray is going to come out on top. The stores have already decided that.
HD Format War - Who Cares
by michigan nick - 2/7/07 5:45 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
It is not weather we care or not or which is better, in the end it will change and something better will come along. So invest it what you like now but eventually it will be replaced by the next generation of "whatever". If not we would still be using the 8 track tape, which worked fine and was the next gen marvel of its age. I'm sure old lp diehards could not believe people would think that anything would replace their old piece of vinyl. We move on and we will keep moving on. It’s what we do. I was one who believed we would never need more then a 51/2 inch floppy to store data. It was huge and what would we do with all that extra space, and the cost was outrageous. I moved on.
Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will Surcome
by andreart - 2/7/07 5:47 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Unlike the past format battles of audio cassettes and eight-tracks or the video face-off between Beta and VHS, the coming high definition competition will be more than two sided. Emerging technology (faster transfer rates and greater memory capacities) will obsolete both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray before either becomes a dominant format.
Since September 2007 has already been mentioned, I predict that by this September the new video transfer medium will be announced and, even though it may not yet be commercially available, it will be seen as so superior to buying yet another library of soon-to-be-outloded movies, that many potential HD disc customers will hold off buying either current format.
HD-DVD will win for two reasons!
by sredmond - 2/7/07 6:05 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
reason 1 is that it is the gerneral public that will decide, not we tech guru's. and the fact that the name has DVD in it will sway some of the weak minded.
reason 2 - agreed. however the porn industry goes so goes the format.
HD will win since it's cheaper
by speedygrady - 2/7/07 6:05 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
HD is cheaper and the eyes really can't tell the difference from Blu-Ray and HD DVD. At least not as much of a difference that would make you shell out the extra dough to get a Blu-Ray
Sony is evil
by kolber - 2/7/07 6:09 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I think a good deal of us consumers (over 40) remember Sony's betamax debacle. Sony needs to be kept in check and humbled. They continually try to subvert consumers with non-standard formats (also see memory stick). Unless the world caves into Sony's desires, I won't be supporting them on this front.
HD DVD Will Lose
by calvers - 2/7/07 6:17 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I'm guessing that HD DVD will lose based on the scientific premise that if CALVERS buys a Toshiba HD DVD Player for $500, the other guy, even if they bring Betamax back, will surely win. This scientific principal has applied many, many times in my life. So, to bring bad juju to Blue Ray, I say, GO BLU RAY< YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!!
Both are doomed
by punterjoe - 2/7/07 6:29 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Consumer electonics history is full of stories of failed "superior" formats that no one really cared about. Remember Beta-ED? El-cassette?
While there are always a handful of people who care about quality, they are not a mass market. Most people wouldn't know superior quality if it bit them in the ear ...or eye ...or whatever organ they use to sense quality.
Maybe consumer electronics should learn from the fashion industry. More people will be swayed by the illusion than the reality. So far it seems only Apple has figured this out. Not to say their stuff isn't quality, but the quality is incidental to it's success.
I say this as one who always cared more about the steak than the sizzle - and has a closet full of failed formats to prove it! :P
Each format will attract it's own market share
by mitchcpi - 2/7/07 6:33 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Every 5 years or so, a new form of storage media hits the market. Rarely does this newcomer fully destroy or replace the former leader. If HD DVD ever becomes obsolete, it will not be any time soon. CD-R media is still here and has it's niche, so does DAT. With the advent of any new media solution, the choices and applications expand. But this is not necessarily at the expense of killing off other proven solutions.
Blu-Ray has a long way to go to gain acceptance in the general population, in part because of its price. The majority of Blu-Rays being used are hacked game stations. There just isn't any real advantage to spending the high price of a stand alone Blu-Ray, when other media choices still work, and work quite well.
If you want to know what will happen in the future, study the past. With few exceptions, older storage solutions seem to follow a similar path with similar time lines. Many are able to adapt by adding value and/or density to their product. This serves to slow the product's relagation as a former leader. Being 2nd best is far different from being dead. Just look at the sales numbers. Dead products don't sell millions of units.
If blu-ray doesn't win it is not going anywhere.....
by Phil_Canyon - 2/7/07 6:39 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I really couldn't give a rats ass about movies and I never buy porn but I do play PS3. I know the storage abilities will be utilized by the game industry, just look at the progression. I'm sticking w/ blu-ray and its capacity. Games will be phenomenal soon once the programmers get used to the format.
Blue Ray...............
by emcquillian - 2/7/07 6:47 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
We are a technologically starved society for new "geek" ware and anything new is gobbled up in a micro-second!
neither
by MrMe003 - 2/7/07 6:53 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
yep.. hybrid drives comes and many years after this we can see whatkind discs(empty) people buys... movies come out with "both format disc-format" 
but very soon we cannot say anything.
The name will win!
by The Bob - 2/7/07 6:55 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
DVD we hear that since so many years and putting HD in front makes it like it was a re-patch thing.
Blue Ray is like news but experienced like Ray Charles Blues,blue skies, modern for kids adventures " he's blue ray gun saved him from martians" and Blue is every were we look, blue seas, blue sky...
That's why Blue Ray will win and it's not because their is one better than the other! Rest in peace HD DVD
The Bob!
HD-BluRay Hybrid Prediction
by GadgetFreek - 2/7/07 6:55 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
My prediction goes with both of them being successful in there own unique ways and that eventually companies seeing this create a universal hybrid between the both. Ive already seen a potential future HD-Bluray dual player..Frankly if you buy one of these you cant go wrong...
Yes its annoying to most who want to buy DVDs in HD to have to choose which is better at this point in time, but whats the rush? With the many HD services through cable and the numerous online rental companies who will eventually (if they don't already)have these formats available to rent,why buy? I know its the new tech and its the everyone wants the best complex, but with my lifestyle i cant remember the last dvd i ran out to buy because its just to easy to get it free nowadays....maybe its not the latest HD resolution but it def saves me some money while others run out and possibly buy a dvd that wont be in existence much longer...
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