High Definition Dvd War Maybe Soon Over

[Judge B]

sony just announced at CES that they will be releasing a $200 BD-ROM drive sometime. they are getting relatively affordable now but its all the other parts that are what will cost you a lot, mainly a really good processor and graphics card

Radeon-HD graphic card should do it, since it's designed to use hardware acceleration. What I have heard old computer with that thing can run HD smoothly.

[atoal]

sony just announced at CES that they will be releasing a $200 BD-ROM drive sometime. they are getting relatively affordable now but its all the other parts that are what will cost you a lot, mainly a really good processor and graphics card

Radeon-HD graphic card should do it, since it's designed to use hardware acceleration. What I have heard old computer with that thing can run HD smoothly.

well i have a dell xps m170 with a decent graphics card and a intel pentium m 2.00 ghz processor and when watching any 1080p video on the internet it lags a lot. 720p files run a bit smoother but still not perfect

[Mr.Metal]

Digital Playground Goes Blu-ray
Porn chooses a side?
by IGN DVD
January 16, 2008 - Popular consensus holds that VHS won out over Betamax largely because the major porn distributors made the surprising decision that – at least as far as home video formats were concerned – smaller was quite possibly better. And while size doesn't factor into this current format-war, HD DVD today received yet another…ahem…blow from the adult film industry as Digital Playground committed exclusively to Blu-ray.

Previously, Sony had not authorized porn for distribution on the Blu-ray format, effectively handing over the format advantage to HD DVD. A recent change of ideology on Sony's part, however, coupled with last week's Blu-ray victories, ultimately lead to Digital Playground's decision.

[Judge B]

Good for you, porn. Haha

[frantik2k3]

I sure hope this "war" is over soon. I just bought a new high-def TV a few weeks back and have been dying to watch some high-def DVDs with it. Up until now I've been waiting and watching this damn "war" so I did not go out and buy the wrong DVD player.

Like said above, I wish that the two formats would have combined their technologies together, would have made everyone some big money.

[Mr.Metal]

Doesn't Toshiba sells a HD-DVD / Blu-Ray player now?

[jarrur]

LG sells BH100 Super Multi Blue Player. But it had some flaws, like the lack of support for HD DVD's interactivity. The upgraded BH200 will support HD-DVD fully.

[slayerdiabolus]

Double boost for Blu-ray backers
Rival DVD format stands
The two formats are battling for long-term supremacy
The backers of the Blu-ray high definition DVD system have received a twin boost in their ongoing format war with HD DVD.

Best Buy - the US's largest consumer electronics chain - has announced it is to recommend that its customers choose Sony's Blu-ray format.

Its shops will carry HD DVD but Blu-ray will be displayed more prominently.

And online video rental company Netflix said it would phase out its HD DVD stock and exclusively offer Blu-ray.

Studio backing

Netflix has become the US's largest company in a fast-growing field - DVD rental by mail - and announced a year ago that it had made its billionth DVD delivery after just eight years in business.

It has stocked both Blu-ray and HD DVD since the formats came on the market in early 2006 but said it had been prompted to reconsider this after a majority of the major Hollywood studios came out in favour of Blu-ray.

Walt Disney, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers and MGM are the studios that have endorsed Blu-ray. Paramount and Universal Studios publish their high-definition DVDs in Toshiba's HD DVD format.

The company also said the reality was that not many customers were ordering HD DVDs. "From the Netflix perspective, focusing on one format will enable us to create the best experience for subscribers," it said in a statement.

Netflix's rival Blockbuster said last June that it planned to stock only Blu-ray titles in its 1,450 US stores.

Best Buy's decision was explained by its president and chief operating officer Brian Dunn, who said: "Best Buy has always believed that the customer will benefit from a widely accepted single format that would offer advantages such as product compatibility and expanded content choices.

"Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products."

The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray has echoes of the rivalry between Betamax and VHS in the 1980s over which was the better video format for customers.

Although both competed side-by-side for several years, the cheaper VHS format eventually won total dominance of the market.

[atoal]

it is over, toshiba announced they are ending all production
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1003

[slayerdiabolus]

Yes!!! Playstation 3 here I come!!!