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Community weekly poll: Who do you predict will win the HD format war?
- 2/6/07 2:50 PM
If it says Sony, it must mean brokey
by swamprat - 2/7/07 10:18 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I would love to see the corprate reports on MTBF for Sony products. My experence is simple. 1TV worked for 1 year and 1 radio worked for 3 months. If it says SONY it must Be Brokey. All you sony lovers deserve what you get. You buy junk you get junk.
i'll do what i've always done...wait
by RMANTHEY56 - 2/7/07 10:19 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I never had to have something while it was the newest and at it's most expensive. I waited until VCR's were affordable, although my first one was a Beta. I waited until multi-player CD players were around $100, I waited until PC's were in the $500 range, I'm still waiting for Plasma/LCD's to come down a bit more. Everything I buy I have bought after the kinks have been worked out. My DVD player cost under $50 and works like a charm. If there is to be a winner in the HD/BluRay circus, by the time it matters to me, my 32" or more Plasma or LCD tv will have cost me about $400 and we'll be a couple years or less away from the next overpriced technological advancement, and I will be satisfied with what I have and wait until that is affordable.
Because I already own Blu-Ray
by khuss66 - 2/7/07 10:30 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Sneaky Sony already slipped a Blu-ray player into my home. They disguised it as a video game console. Well... Since the HD is already hooked up, might as well use it.
In a little over 1 month, Sony put over 1 million of these units in American homes. In marketing, thats called saturation.
Cooperation is always good BluHD
by wisecore - 2/7/07 10:50 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Because LG's BH100 is out in the open, more companies will follow and within a year and prices will be affordable by 2008 both for 1080p projectors and HD Combo players. Then it is fair to say that the concept of format war is a very short sighted idea, specially in today's "changing by the minute" world!
HD DVD will
by brinda1 - 2/7/07 11:15 AM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Blu-ray is almost unecessary and it's more expensive.HD DVD is just as good with picture quality. The only real difference between the two is the capacity. Blu-ray can jold 3 times as much as a regular DVD disc but again, that is totally unecessary. Any game or movie can easily fit into a regular DVD disc. Look at the difference in graphics of a PS3 to a 360, basically the same. Look at HD DVD vs. Blu ray, the same.
HD will win the war this time around until we decide that movies have to be much longer and that games have to include much more amount of data. By then we will have another type of disc reading and disc creating technology.
The Format War
by Dr. Michael W. Popejoy - 2/7/07 12:09 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I suppose I don't care who wins the format war over HD DVD or Blu Ray since it is feasible to have both systems regardless of who wins. I bought a SONY HD DVD player (400 disc multichanger) recently and I am satisfied with its performance both in the HD format and in the SD format. I am ready to buy a SONY Playstation mainly due to its Blu Ray capability, but not without some regard to its gamesmanship ability. My son owns an XBox 360 so he is the gamer. He can use the Playstation for games and I can use it for Blu Ray. If DVD's stop being made in the HD DVD format, then no matter, I can still use the HD DVD player as a multidisc storage device and it still plays SD DVD very nicely along with its cousin in the cabinet, a 200 disc DVD player and a 300 disk CD player. It's all good.
Michael
HD-DVD, BLUE RAY
by RHAB - 2/7/07 12:41 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
WHAT ARE THEY?
The Pirates Win the HD War
by Axiomatic13 - 2/7/07 12:58 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
So I know who won the war.
Pirates.
The only thing either format can secure with DRM is the average idiot user. The Pirates win the war because they can still pirate HD-DVD and Blue-Ray.
I refuse to buy in to this war period.
DRM is useless. Please stop.
I don't give a hoot
by k.ahmad - 2/7/07 1:01 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
There is no way to tell what medium will be the next new thing. Look at beta max, it was the best medium out there, but VCP's won. Look at CD's and DVD's, over the last two decades, there have been variations on the different types of Lazer media, but CD's and DVD's won out for a variety of reasons. Iomega Zip disks were going to replace floppies, but who even can purchase one of those anymore. What ever media wins, we will all go out and buy the head units and disks because we are consumer lemmings, and really have no way of being otherwise. Such is the nature of society.
Blu-Ray... Simple. It's a much cooler name... Disagree?
by Jos. - 2/7/07 2:25 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
Blu-Ray will win hands down... Very simple - it's a much cooler name. It reeks of coolness and people like being cool. You might think it a small, petty distinction - but it's an advantage that a majority of products find impossible to overcome when they're #2 (or 3, 4, 5) in the cool department.
Disagree? You're obviously VERY not-cool. No James Bond for you. Stick with the Honeymooners...
Stay away from ANY Sony products
by minzawaung - 2/7/07 2:52 PM In reply to: Blu-Ray... Simple. It's a much cooler name... Disagree? by Jos.Sony Never learnt a lesson
Sony always invent the obsolete nonuniversal products
UMD-Minidisc-memory stick-self ignite batteries-defunct sony palmOS pda-Betamax and so on.......
I have to repair and replace circuit boards on my Sony SW receiver 4 times over 9 years and it is now quite again.
Could you name ANY camera or PDA that use sony memory stick???? None except sony camera and sony ericsson phones
When you buy Sony vaios lap top or deskttop ,it will provide with uniformat memory stick reader/writer only
If you buy any other laptops HP-Dell_Toshiba-Acer-gateway-,,,.They ALL are provided with multiformat memory card 4 or 5 in one readers.
Sony NEVER provide reciprocal universal products on its consumer goods!
I would buy a sony if
1.Sony use SD cards
2.Sony produce HD DVD player (similar scenarios to produce rival VHS VCR once thay have lost the format war betamax=bluray(???name of the fish-stingray family-uncool funny name)
3.Sony's Playstation 3 equipped with HD DVD player
4.If Sony cameras' use SD cards
5.If sony laptops/pda use/provide SD and other universal products like multiformat card readers
I would stay away from ANY sony and sony related products
My home is Sony free zone.
And please keep it simple sony!
"Learnt" ??
by movieflow - 2/7/07 3:22 PM In reply to: Stay away from ANY Sony products by minzawaungNot sure if it was Sony that done didn't learnt nuthin.
Valid point.
by gudguy - 2/8/07 6:49 AM In reply to: Stay away from ANY Sony products by minzawaungYou make a very valid point. By not producing a more universal product, Sony may end up shooting itself in the foot.
Thanks for your point.
Blu-Ray, by a HAIR, which poll results also indicate...
by JeffAHayes - 2/7/07 2:31 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
For a couple of reasons, and I DIDN'T take the porn industry into account, although it COULD VERY WELL play a part (but frankly, I think standard DVD is probably good enough for most of that for now, and I doubt most of those folks have invested in the new cameras yet).
Primarily, Blu-Ray is the ONLY CURRENT 1080P format, although there are a quickly increasing number of 1080P TVs available (and much more affordable). Since nobody (I know of) is broadcasting in 1080P yet, Blu-Ray is the ONLY CURRENT WAY to take advantage of the extra pixels and dollars, and people will figure that out pretty quickly, and sales of the two formats will become correspondingly lopsided.
Second (although maybe this should have been FIRST), I see NO commercials on the HD channels for HD-DVD, whereas Blu-Ray runs MANY ads -- especially on DiscoveryHD, which already has the some of the best-quality HD pictures... So I'm thinking people who have even just 720P systems are going to be exposed to a lot more advertising for Blu-Ray than HD-DVD where it REALLY MATTERS -- on the HD channels. I've seen PLENTY of HD-DVD ads in "Entertainment Weekly," and I assume they do other magazine ads, as well. But I don't think I've seen a SINGLE TV ad for them, which I think is a MAJOR mistake if they really want to "stay alive."
Third, there was an early argument proffered on an A/V forum I frequent that HD-DVD would be the sole survivor because it's the only one licensed to use the term "DVD" (even though the Big-Box retailers call them BOTH "next-generation DVD" in their ads), and that since there's so much public recognition for the term "DVD," THAT would make the difference. HOWEVER, I think since the players are coming along this late in the game, with HD ownership approaching 50% of all households, this isn't going to mean as much as it once might have.
Finally, I think to a lot of people, the term "Blu-Ray" will just seem "Cooler," a "cool new player" to go along with this cool new HD technology... Now if they can just get the player prices a bit more in line with what the HD-DVD players are going for -- particularly BEFORE HD-DVD players DO start offering true 1080P, I agree Blu-Ray WILL win the war -- even for me, although I own only two 720P players and it will likely be several YEARS before I have the $$$ to upgrade to a 1080P TV.
Jeff Hayes
Spartanburg, SC
Blue Ray What?
by golian234 - 2/7/07 2:36 PM In reply to: Who do you predict will win the HD format war? by Marc Bennett
I must be way behind the times, I don't even know what "Blu-Ray" is. I just now got an HD receiver for my HD flat screen TV and now I hear the new buz word, "Blu-Ray"? What in the heck is it??????
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