engadget.com — Gartner, the fat lady of research firms, is singing HD DVD's swan song this morning. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Principal Research Analyst in Japan, says in Gartner's Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, "Gartner believes that Toshiba's price-cutting may prolong HD DVD's life a little, but the limited line-up of film titles will inflict fatal damage...
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theseptimheirJan 28, 2008
For the millionth time, Blu-Ray is NOT Sony's format. That being said, Sony DID ensure Blu-Ray's victory with what, in hindsight, was a brilliant marketing move: prepackaging the PS3 with Blu-Ray drives. While their decisions regarding the PS3 hurt them in the video game market (it also hurt video game consumers), it helped secure a format that they do, admittedly, have a large stake in. But Blu-Ray is not an updated Beta-Max or UMD.
best1dJan 28, 2008
So.. Anyway both formats will be used .. Simply people will buy hd dvd/blu ray hybrids and watch movies on both. IMHO Blu ray has an advantage but there will be no dominant until new media is made. P.S. visit www.best1deals.com
discolandoJan 29, 2008
Because it breaks the revenue model that Digg uses, and therefore could potentially harm Digg financially. Digg keeps the site up by selling advertising space... willfully blocking those ads could mean that those advertisers may choose to no longer give Digg their money. I like Digg too much to do that.You can't have your cake and eat it too.
daybreakJan 29, 2008
Oddly enough...I was reading an article about how popular movies of the last 25 years or so aren't being taken care of at all. Ever seen Stargate on Blu Ray? Directors etc. were worried about this problem with DVD and it didn't seem to be much of an issue...but it is now. We can see a beautiful copy of Gone With The Wind but a flick that came out five years ago is already damaged?....scary.
aaronamJan 31, 2008
News is that next week Best Buy is selling Blu-ray titles for $14.
aaronamJan 31, 2008
Anyone want to buy some 3.5" flopppy drives (10 free floppy disks included)?
aaronamJan 31, 2008
Great for the computer industry! (Although they already realised long ago that Blu-ray was the better format with higher capacity and faster read/write speeds)
aaronamJan 31, 2008
Do a quick price search online - you are paying over 200% too much at $48 for a dual layer Blu-ray disk.