Well after Warner Bros. (including New Line Cinema) switched from HD-DVD and Blu-Ray support, they will stop HD-DVD production in a few month. From May onwards they support only Blu-Ray as HD format and of course DVD. Because of that the company's behind HD-DVD will not have the press conference on Sunday afternoon (US time) at the CES.
In fact I hope this format war is soon over so Blu-Ray can be the official winner. Yes I know technically HD-DVD is cheaper, but that's not reflected in the shops HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movies have mainly the same prize and only the HD-DVD players are cheaper besides that the format does not have any advantage. The sound and picture quality on both formats are the same and Blu-Ray discs have a lot more size and that's the point otherwise in 3 years there will be a new format. More important for the moment I don't want to see movie download win. Besides that I like my movies or games on a nice Disc I like to own them (downloadable movies and games are mostly not really owned by the customer at least not at the moment) and I like to have them on day one. MS likes really the idea of download movies and games (that's why they support HD-DVD only a bit to keep the war going), but I don't see the providers are up to that task at least not for the next 7-10 years. Most of the providers have a monthly limit on GB and I don't think that the bandwidth for that is at the moment available to the mainstream.
I have seen a lot of people refer to the clone wars, ehm VHS vs. Betamax war that Sony lost and therefore thinking that HD-DVD will win. Yes Sony lost that war and it was a long war, actually VHS and Betamax launched 1976 and Sony throw the towel in 1988. Somehow many of that people also say that Betamax was superior compared to VHS. As far as I know Betamax was more expensive and had shorter runtime then VHS, so it had only better picture quality. To compare that with HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, the consumer has to pay around the same prize for a disc (players are out of the question HD-DVD players are much cheaper, but on the other side not many support 1080p) and gets more storage space (or runtime) on the Blu-Ray. Also something about this Sony format or MS format. Sony is one of the company's behind Blu-Ray, but like it was already with the CD and DVD they are not the only company behind it. For the HD-DVD MS, even if I don't like to say that but Micheal Bay is wright about the thing with keeping the format war going. Also the Blu-Ray was rejected by the DVD Forum and number one in the DVD Forum is Toshiba after that Toshiba started to make another disc that's now known as HD-DVD.
There are now only 2 major company's supporting HD-DVD and that are Paramount and Universal all other big company's are supporting Blu-Ray. I really wish that this useless war is soon over especially because so far the only winner is the MS download service. Having finally one format would help the consumer a lot and the numbers are clear with 2:1 in the US and EU 3:1 for Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD. Toshiba should throw the towel and take it like a men to prevent that more and more people are buying the wrong device because at least one will lose. I guess HD-DVD could only win if the Xbox 360 would have a in-built HD-DVD drive since launch day, but MS is not supporting HD-DVD.
So long and finish the fight
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