In Reply to: Ole's not "politically correct". He has (correctly) identified the superior format and makes no bones about it posted by Jazz Inmate on December 6, 2007 at 19:30:52:
than the technical superiority of the format. I'm afraid Toshiba's strategy of cheap standalone players and the (badly needed from HD DVD'S POV) Paramount defection has leveled the playing field so-to-speak.
I'm a firm believer that HD DVD is crippling Universal/Warner/Paramount releases because of bandwidth/storage limitations (including Warner Blu-ray's because they are saving money using HD DVD-crippled encodes) but that argument doesn't mean anything to J6P with typically modest HT systems. >95% of the people out there couldn't care less about lossless/uncompressed audio and high bitrate video encodes. In fact, i suspect they (and the studios) care more about special features which, unfortunately, is an area Blu-ray is still playing catchup on.
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Follow Ups
- Unfortunately, Blu-ray sales advantages have more to do with studio support and PS3s.... - oscar 20:14:05 12/06/07 (9)
- well stated analysis - Ole Lund Christensen 22:31:57 12/06/07 (8)
- Have you read this Businessweek tidbit concerning Warner ? - oscar 06:24:31 12/07/07 (7)
- Very informative, thank you - Ole Lund Christensen 14:10:59 12/07/07 (0)
- High Def will go as Warner goes. - Jack G 09:47:24 12/07/07 (4)
- I don't see Sony/Disney/Fox defecting no matter what Warner's does. - oscar 10:04:58 12/07/07 (3)
- I disagree - Jack G 10:41:20 12/07/07 (2)
- The Blu-ray studios like BD+/region coding as well as the bandwidth/storage advantages. - oscar 11:23:00 12/07/07 (1)
- Aren't these the same studios that supported DIVX for many of the same reasons? - Jack G 12:02:30 12/07/07 (0)
- That would be awesome NT - Jazz Inmate 09:05:55 12/07/07 (0)