digitalbattle.com — Samsung and Toshiba have joined forces to end the format wars for good. They are releasing a hybrid player that plays both Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. But that’s not all! Sony and NEC are also releasing a dual-format player of Blu-ray and HD-DVD. This is back-up for Sony, since they did loose miserably with Beta.
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somestheticJun 27, 2006
thats not ending the format war any more than buying two seperate players is ending the format war.its just more convenient.
theprezJun 27, 2006
The stupid thing is that those formats have always been better than their competitors, except in price of course.
startrekJun 27, 2006
Oh, that's right. I forgot that paramount split and now CBS owns Star Trek. I forget, did CBS subscribe to this Blu-Ray nonsense?
binarypowerJun 28, 2006
You can lose your bolts if they are loose.
tiberiusdraigJun 28, 2006
I don't mean the player itself, I am referring to industry acceptance of BOTH formats. If both are accepted, it can only lead to trouble further down the line. It means expensive hardware due to both technologies having to be incorporated.My other question - will studios be printing on both formats? If so, won't this mean higher prices because of higher costs on their part? Will people adopt this technology so soon after moving from VHS to DVD? Yes DVD has been around for a while now, but it's lifespan has been significantly less than that of VHS. A lot of people have spent a lot of money on that conversion, and they are not going to want to do the same thing again (obviously there will be exceptions, namely the richer amongst us) so soon. For early adopters this is great. Go ahead, buy your £1000 (or whatever) Blu-Ray & HD-DVD player. It will only come round and bite you in the arse when one of the formats fails and you have a hybrid player with only a few movies of one format (cough*blu-ray*cough) that no-one will remember in a few years time. You do that. I'm going to wait until your money has decided on a format for me, then I'm going to go out and buy my £20 player.Have a nice day :)
tiberiusdraigJun 28, 2006
Actually, until iPod mania swept the nation, pretty much everyone I know had a mini-Disc player. I've still got mine, and use it's recording function very often for sample collection with a mic, etc. NetMD is still going very strong here in the UK for people who need a reasonably priced good quality recording device. Ever heard of Hi-MD? A Gigabyte on a mini-disc I hear you say? Yes please :)