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BTW: There WILL be BluRay porn. “Debbie does Dallas again” is coming out in both formats…
I’m picturing a 90 year old woman going at it with Harry Potter…:oops:
See I knew Porn would manage to get on both formats. Sony wants to stand their ground, but they don’t want another BetaMax.
Isn’t that the plan for Sony. Feeding the Blu-Ray, the whole industry on Blu-Ray and that includes amateur.
I think you’re going to find that Sony has another Betamax on their hands with Blu-Ray. HD-DVD is the clear, early winner and now they’ve even upped the ante with a tripple layer disk that holds more than the Blue-Ray disk. You may see Blu-Ray get relegated to computers for use as data storage devices and nothing more, but I think you’ll see Sony botch this one like they have with virtually everything else they put their hands on these days…
Could be… but HD-DVD still has no traction outside the tech-savvy… there is a lot to be said for name recognition.
I’d rather see HD-DVD succeed, but I’d want to do it with a burner/player that does both just in case. 😉
Dave, HD-DVD was definitely winning the war up until this month. So far this year, Blu-Ray’s been kickin’ ace. Blu-Ray sales have doubled the HD-DVD sales this month, and it’s trending higher. The simple fact is that now all the bugs have been ironed out, there really isn’t a benefit of one over the other, except the fact that
1. There are more titles available, and more coming on Blu-Ray than HD-DVD, and
2. Spec for spec, Blu-Ray is the superior format.
If stores continue to favor Blu-Ray like they have been, I think this trend will continue.
And that’s your techno news for the week, I am Rob Michael’s for Switched On News! (newscaster’s voice)
I agree that Blu-Ray is the better spec, but come on…It’s Sony…:-)
Didn’t I hear recently that one of the big movie companies recently pulled out of the Blu-Ray camp?
I’m afraid that if Blu-Ray wins the war, Sony will turn it into an even more proprietary thing than it already is and clamp down so many controls on the thing that it will be useless for anything but watching movies. Personally, I think the biggest market for the next-gen DVD format will be in computers and data storage applications.
Remember what I said a few shows ago about Universal, NBC, and Microsoft?
HD-DVD. Microsoft. Blu-Ray. Sony.
What’s worse?
djohnson wrote:Personally, I think the biggest market for the next-gen DVD format will be in computers and data storage applications.I would like that.
A small update — from thedigitalbits:
Quote:Meanwhile, Newsweek magazine has posted an interesting story recently that has relevance to the HD format war. The piece indicates that the adult film industry is in the middle of its worst software sales slump in years, in part impacted by the sheer volume of free adult content available online. That would stand in sharp contrast to the notion that the adult industry is powerful enough to influence the HD-DVD/Blu-ray format war. In fact, despite the free content that’s already online, industry analysts see the most profitable part of the porn market moving from DVD directly to the Internet… bypassing HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc entirely. Several adult producers have told us here at The Bits that the ultimate goal is to deliver high-definition adult content directly to computers and DVRs via broadband, without any physical media involved.Interesting, no?
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