The companies of the HD DVD Promotional Group today issued a statement in response to the decision by Warner Home Video to exclusively back the Blu-ray format:
While Warner’s decision is a setback for HD DVD, the consumer has benefited from HD DVD’s commitment to quality and affordability – a bar that is critical for the mainstream success of any format. We believe widespread adoption of a next generation format will ultimately be determined by the consumer.
HD DVD ought to go on that Yo’ Mama show. Blu-Ray must still be reeling from the force of this shattering riposte from the HD DVD Promotional Group.
HD-DVD is dead.
Blu Ray is the superior format even though it’s a little bit more expensive. As soon as they come down in price I will buy on for my computer. Really need that storage Blu-Ray provides.
nice to see the better format winning out. we’ve come a long way since the vhs/betamax days. ahh, human evolution.
I saw the war from the sidelines and am glad that Sony finally won a format war. :)
Minidisc beat DCC when no one thought it would back then. Now, they beat HDDVD.
I mean, seriously, HD-DVD? Could you drop one of those D’s and make it “HDVD” so it’s not as hard to say? “The Look and Sound of Perfect?” That was the best they could come up with?
I’m glad this is all winding down. I held off on buying one of these two because of this reason.
How do consumers confuse blue-ray and hd-dvd? From the ones ive seen the color of the boxes are a give away.
HD-DVD = Red Box, Blue Ray = Blue box.
Its not rocket science ;-)
Personally i don’t care about which is the better format or my format is better then yours. Though i do have a HD-DVD player for the xbox lol.
Guess I’ll just have to get a blue ray player at some point. Any change i could get one for less £200, no???
Whats wrong with a bit of competition anyways? Doesn’t this help in the long run. Perhaps we should wait until the next tech comes out, HHD anyone?
Here’s the problem with competition for next-gen formats…… No one wants to buy obsolete technology at high prices.
You have two formats trying to become the dominant one. You could’ve combined the best of both and made a truly better format, but in the time of the format war, you could’ve had everyone jump ship on DVD that wanted Hi-Def content for a few $ more.
Did DVD really have a competitor during launch? They had Laserdisc, but that was a niche format (I still have mine :) ), but VHS was showing signs of age and LD always had analog noise on it and Dolby Digital required an RF 5.1 decoder which even now no one really owns one that’s inexpensive.
I’m just glad that Bluray won and we can all move on now.