What’s the HD DVD Promotions Group’s response to Netflix’s decision to exclusively stock Blu-ray and BestBuy’s decision to “recommend” Blu-ray?
… it’s unfortunate to see Netflix make the decision to only stock Blu-ray titles going forward. While the Best Buy announcement says they will recommend Blu-ray, at least they will continue to carry HD DVD and offer consumers a choice at retail
I guess we’re entering the no spin zone! You really feel for the guys forced to put out positive press release after positive press release. “At least” they’ll still carry our discs :-(
Are dual-format players so expensive that they’ll never catch on? Or is it that by the time they’re as cheap as present day DVD players the “war” will truly be over?
HD DVD Group Responds to Netflix, Best B [High-Def Digest via Xbox-Scene]
Who cares? In a few more years(when the price of Blu-Ray or HD DVD is cheap as regular dvd players today), someone will come out with something better… hopefully it will play movies on something a lot more durable and reliable than a disc.
Some discs are more durable than others. I read somewhere blu-ray has some enhancements which make it much more durable than traditional DVDs…and more durable than HD-DVDs too.
Its easy to feel bad for HD-DVD though…working in that PR department can’t be the best feeling right now. Oh well, I guess Sony was due a win in the “format wars”…
It was Netflix themselves that previously reported that the hard coat that the Blu-Rays have actually was more brittle in practice and the HD DVDs stood up better as a rental medium.
The hard coat was a good idea but since Blu-Rays have the data closer to the surface, once they do get damaged, they are completely unrepairable. They cannot be resurfaced like CD, DVD or HD DVD media.
To be honest, the technical advantages offered by the Sony disc make it more appealing as a data delivery media. The argument over durability I consider moot. If you take care of your media, it will last longer than you. I have CDs which are peerless after 20 years of use (yes, CDs from the late ’80s) and my DVD collection is pristine. But as far as video quality… quite frankly, though the true quality of the Hi Def generation Data Versatile Discs images are better, the true test is the quality of the original (master) media. Until films are made from scratch in a lossless digital format en masse, it’s rather silly to bicker over film quality. Especially since every human eye sees everything a little differently.
That’s the point - “If ‘YOU’ take care of it”… the problem with that is, if you rent most of the movies you watch, like I do, you’d know people treat those disc like trash!!! Those companies(Blockbuster, Netflix) claim they resurface every disc when it comes back, but that’s a bunch of bs. I have cd’s from the 80’s as well that still play great cause I took decent care of them, but I would love to see some kind of media that can handle that kind of abuse.
THE FUTURE IS BLU.