Phube Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 Reuters (Posh news firm) Toshiba has pulled out of the race (HD-DVD developers). Leaving Blu-Ray to 'win' the HD format war! Looks like a sales spike in PS3s is on the way...
danny. Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 good I suppose, I don't care which one won but now one has I can get a player, I suppose lots of people wouldn't want to buy a player or any discs until they knew which format was going to be around for a while.
Alexikokopops Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 Certainly makes the XBox360 vs PS3 debate more interesting now. I say interesting, I mean slightly less boring.
Phube Posted 17 February 2008 Author Posted 17 February 2008 Certainly makes the XBox360 vs PS3 debate more interesting now.I say interesting, I mean slightly less boring. Good news for us PS3 owners then Well yes and no... the 360 is capable of playing Blu-Ray (good old M$, always hedging their bets!) but it'd mean another add-on I suppose!
Alexikokopops Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 Well yes and no... the 360 is capable of playing Blu-Ray (good old M$, always hedging their bets!) but it'd mean another add-on I suppose! Well I did not know that. Clever Microsoft.
Foxhateram Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 Well I did not know that.Clever Microsoft. Blue-ray was always going to win!!! Its bigger, with better quality. why would you want a HD-DVD?
Bryn Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 When this debate first reared it's head I actually thought HD-DVD would win purely because Joe Public would go with what he recognised best, purely based on name. I was wrong
FoxesFan100 Posted 17 February 2008 Posted 17 February 2008 Me and my Dad bought a HD-DVD player just for Transformers in HD , now HD-DVD is out so thats £249 down the drain Oh well i always knew PS3 was gonna be the best console in the long run,
Dr The Singh Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm Toshiba climbs on 'HD DVD exit' Sony's Betamax lost out in the 1980s, but its Blu-ray has better prospects Shares in Toshiba have gained more than 5% as speculation intensified that the electronics giant is set to scrap its high definition DVD format, HD DVD. The firm said it was reviewing its business strategies, but added it had made no decision over HD DVD's future. The format has suffered from the defection of major US film studios to Sony-backed rival Blu-ray. Analysts said that an end to the war meant Toshiba could refocus on other areas and the industry would gain too. "There have been media reports that Toshiba will discontinue its HD DVD business," a Toshiba spokesman said. "In fact, Toshiba has not made any announcement or decision. We are currently assessing our business strategies, but nothing has been decided at the moment." Tilting the balance Last month, Warner Brothers became the fifth Hollywood studio to throw its weight behind Sony's Blu-ray format, leaving just Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures favouring HD DVD. It doesn't make sense for Toshiba to continue putting effort into this Koichi Ogawa, Daiwa SB Investments Does anyone care about high definition? Analysts had seen this decision to switch allegiances as a tipping point. Video rental firms, including Blockbuster and Netflix, have said they will phase out the Toshiba-backed format. And last week, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, announced it would only sell high-definition DVDs in the Blu-ray format at its 4,000 US stores. "It doesn't make sense for Toshiba to continue putting effort into this," said Koichi Ogawa, a chief portfolio manager at Daiwa SB Investments. "It needs to cut its losses and focus its resources on promising businesses." Swift resolution? Blu-ray and HD DVD have fought to become the pre-eminent high definition format to help revitalise the $24bn global home DVD market. There is not much difference between the formats, which both feature better picture and sound quality and have better data storage capacity. But the two formats are incompatible with each other and so consumers have had to choose between machines that played only one type of disc. As a result, many have held back to see which would become the industry standard and, like the battle between Betamax and VHS video recorders in the 1980s, this has been damaging to the industry as a whole. A DVD player from South Korean firm LG is the only one to play both rival high-definition DVD formats and it costs about $600, almost twice the price of the models from Sony and Toshiba. The video machine war lasted a decade, so the prospect of Toshiba abandoning its HD DVD just two years after launching the player has been cheered by investors and analysts. Toshiba shares surged 5.7% to 829 yen and was one of the biggest risers on Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 share index.
lookwhaticando Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Its bigger, with better quality. why would you want a HD-DVD? Betamax was supposedly superior... do you have a Betamax player or any Betamax tapes? Didn't think so.
Phube Posted 18 February 2008 Author Posted 18 February 2008 Who merged these threads!!??? <_< Not only have you gone with a worse title... but you left Blu-Ray with the wrong spelling!!!
Manwell Pablo Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Who merged these threads!!??? <_<Not only have you gone with a worse title... but you left Blu-Ray with the wrong spelling!!! Unless you want an Arsenal badge for your avatar and Xbox 360 as a signature I'd shut up.
shen Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Blue-ray was always going to win!!! Its bigger, with better quality. why would you want a HD-DVD? But it's got region codes which HD doesn't
danny. Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Unless you want an Arsenal badge for your avatar and Xbox 360 as a signature I'd shut up. moderating at it's finest
Daggers Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Who merged these threads!!??? <_<Not only have you gone with a worse title... but you left Blu-Ray with the wrong spelling!!! The spelling should have been a dead giveaway... It wouldn't have been Hippy Spice, Canadian Spice or Teaches English for a living Spice...I just bet it was Can't Spell for Toffee Spice.
Smudge Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Walmart, largest retailer in the US probably the world, is also dumping HD.
AoWW Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 The spelling should have been a dead giveaway... It wouldn't have been Hippy Spice, Canadian Spice or Teaches English for a living Spice...I just bet it was Can't Spell for Toffee Spice. Hmm, so - dare I ask - who's Old Spice?
MC Prussian Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Hmm, so - dare I ask - who's Old Spice? That Beckham Beanpole on High Heels - in about 20 years.
Manwell Pablo Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Hmm, so - dare I ask - who's Old Spice? I was thinking "Who ate all the Spice" myself.
Smudge Posted 18 February 2008 Posted 18 February 2008 Hmm, so - dare I ask - who's Old Spice? That be me meduck!! Leaving Baby Posh Sporty Ginger Scary Fill in the gap
coale39 Posted 20 February 2008 Posted 20 February 2008 So its official now (well yesterday) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7252172.stm Whens a drive for the xbox gonna be released?
Daggers Posted 20 February 2008 Posted 20 February 2008 Come on then - hold you hands up...which of you gadget lovers got yourselves a shitforbrains useless HD player?
potter3 Posted 20 February 2008 Posted 20 February 2008 Me and my Dad bought a HD-DVD player just for Transformers in HD , now HD-DVD is out so thats £249 down the drain Oh well i always knew PS3 was gonna be the best console in the long run, Come on then - hold you hands up...which of you gadget lovers got yourselves a shitforbrains useless HD player? I can play blu ray disks Although theres no point eally as I haven't got a HDTV
Daggers Posted 20 February 2008 Posted 20 February 2008 I can play blu ray disks Although theres no point eally as I haven't got a HDTV I'm not bothering until I can get a machine dirt cheap or software to crack the copyright...which I already had in place for HD disks
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