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Netflix chooses Blu-Ray, dropping HD DVD
Motorhead
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I bet HD DVD is dead by the end of the year...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online video rental company Netflix Inc (NFLX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it would exclusively stock Blu-ray high-definition DVDs after a decision by some the world's biggest movie studios in favor of the Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) developed format.
Netflix has stocked DVDs using both Blu-ray and the competing HD DVD format developed by Toshiba Corp (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research) since they first came on the market in early 2006.
Four out of six major Hollywood studios have recently decided to publish high-definition DVDs only using Blu-ray.
Netflix said that with such a clear signal from the industry, it will only buy Blu-ray discs going forward and will phase out stock of HD DVD by about the end of the year.
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that's pretty big. Especially since blockbuster is already Blu-Ray only IIRC. So all renting is now essentially done by blu-ray.
It seemed to me a marketing blunder by Toshiba. I know next to nothing about the differences between HD DVD and Blue-Ray in terms of which one is better. However, from my non-techie point of view, "Blue-Ray" sounds more cooler (hence better) than the sterile sounding "HD DVD". I mean, HD DVD might be accurate but come on, you need a gimick or something.
to move the masses, you do need a gimmick.
blockbuster(or cockknocker as i like to call em) has a smaller hd-dvd section than blu ray at my local store.
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Well blu-ray can hold more than hddvd and the quality is just slightly better but i'm glad blu-ray won the war because I was planning on buying a PS3 when MGS4 comes out and not a HDDVD player.
Actually blue ray holds the same as HD-DVD and the quality i suspect is about the same.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
I bet in another year you will see a huge lawsuit from the HD-DVD side claiming blueray is trying to monoploize like how MS did.
I bet in another year nobody will know who or what Blu-ray or HD DVD is because they're such a niche product for a specific marketplace. There is nothing about either of these products that screams "BUY ME" to consumers at Best Buy, or Circuit City, etc.
I don't know how many times I have been in the gaming section of my local Best Buy (which is right across the aisle way from the HD DVD and Blu-ray TVs and heard people say: "What's the difference?", or "DVD seems to be good enough." Seriously, the whole reason why everybody knows about it now is because the mainstream media has picked up on a "format war" between the two and people like to watch huge conglomerates duke it out.
I'd be willing to bet that DVD remains the standard for another decade until digital downloads become viable.
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I don't know how much I agree with this...I know that the majority of households still don't own HD-TV's, but the number of HD-TV's per house is steadily rising...a HUGE blockage to that progress is that cable companies aren't doing a very good job at providing more HD channels, which leads to people asking "why bother?" Especially people who don't watch any sports, since that's what most of the HD channels seem to be focused on. To me, it's really heavily dependant on the cable companies, the more channels they provide, the more willing people will be to invest in HD-TV's, and thus be willing to purchase high deff movies.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
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I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
The reason that there aren't a huge number of HDTVs being sold yet, is because most households don't have the extra cash to just go out and buy a new TV whenever they feel like it. They'll wait till their current one dies and only then will they upgrade. The same holds true for dvd players.
Not to mention a HD player is useless on a non HD tv, so to get the former you need the latter. I look for whichever format wins this war to begin becoming popular about the time the "next big thing" comes out.
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I recently bought and Xbox360 and to be honest I don't see the diffrence in movies from my PS3.
Doesn't really hurt Toshiba considering they are making profit while not too long ago Sony was losing it.
I think it was a dumb decision for Netflix to adopt Blu-Ray or HD DVD. Do you know how many discs break in those flimsy envelopes they use? When I used to use one of these services more then half the DVDs came broken.
I've been a netflix member for 2 years now. I've received maybe 2 scratched discs.
To notice the difference you'd have to have a) an HD capable TV (with HDMI hookup), and b) the Blu-Ray edition of the movie.
I highly recommend the blu-ray version of the Planet Earth series, you'll totally notice a difference.
Also your xbox still only plays standard dvds, unless you buy the $100+ (or whatever it is) HD add-on. It's not really a sony vs. microsoft thing.
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Actually blue ray holds the same as HD-DVD and the quality i suspect is about the same.
Sorry to tell you but Blu-Ray discs hold more data. Up to 25GB on a sigle layer to HD's 15GB.
Both systems have all of the inherent weaknesses of CD/DVDs, and zero actual advantanges aside from more storage space.
Personally, I'm waiting for people to wake up and look at cartridge style media for hidef movies. We already have achieved massive amounts of storage in digital chips the size of a fingernail.
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Both systems have all of the inherent weaknesses of CD/DVDs, and zero actual advantanges aside from more storage space.
Personally, I'm waiting for people to wake up and look at cartridge style media for hidef movies. We already have achieved massive amounts of storage in digital chips the size of a fingernail.
In case noone heard, Microsoft ( you know, the big HD-DVD proponents ) have dropped prices for HD-DVD for Xbox360 over $50 also. When Micro$oft starts dropping prices, you know the shit sucks. HD-DVD is dead. Long live Blu-Ray.