HD DVD vs Blu Ray, Blu Ray Winner

12 Votes
  • Start Date:
    1-6-2008
  • Last Vote:
    3-20-2008

Issue:

This is a quite an issue which has circulated for a long time.Which format do u chose to be with HD DVD or Blu Ray?With Times Warner Supporting Blu ray their has been a clear tilt in balance. With this i see Blue ray becaming the next big thing.

Will Cost be a Major factor in sales of blu ray disks or would the people like the old DVD format and stick to it?

Read about the whole issue: http://technochat.blogspot.com

Belief:

I believe that cost won't play a major role as i think cost will go down as number of cosumers increase
42%
Yes Cost will play a Major role and people will like to stay with the old format DVD
58%
No Cost wont play a major role
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Submitted by jamie l. on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 21:26

what is sad to me as a video consumer is we allways get screwed. hd dvd is by far the better format. i have no idea why people are so caught up in the bludisk size to this day sony has still not confirmed they can store 50gig. they said it is capable of it but stop short of declaring it. and i hate to tell you early adopters of blu disk that your players are hooped when 2.0 comes out. and sony will stop supporting the 1.0 format if they have not already. they were in suck a rush to get players on the market that they never came out with a standard with its features unlike toshiba who had a standard that all player manufactures had to comply with. so new blu ray disk may not play on a player that supports sony 1.0 sorry. so we the consumer get screwed out of a better format because of sonys buying power. and that is all they did buy all the hollywood studios. i will not evey own a blu play i will wait for the next format which should be released in 3 years. screwed again

Submitted by Phillipe C. on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 16:43

HD DVD is not doing well right now there contracts are trying to buy them selfs out so they can sell on blue ray.

Submitted by Ray B. on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 06:12

Cost will always matter. Everyday people work hard for their money and do not wish to invest into something they feel insecure about. That's why if HD DVD hangs around long enough cost and consumer education about the product could cause people to buy the best quality product for the price...HD DVD.

Submitted by jorge m. on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 02:19

Cost is of course a big factor. I also don't see SONY changing it trend to milk customers of hard earned money. Sone almost never lowers cost unless it sees it's self losing money like the PSP and PS3 but as you see the PS2 is like 8 years old and it still sells for over 100.00! So if the format war goes to BR then you can expect SONY to raise cost as much as possible and then maybe start to lower as it reaches it's peak cost to consumers.

Submitted by Mary Beth D. on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 21:09

I agree with you that the cost should not matter, but I also have a betamax. What can I say.

Submitted by John Q. on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 17:23

I think cost always plays a role. In this case, I suspect that the format who's hardware becomes cheaper first will likely be the winner.

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