blu ray dvd in the lead?????

Neilo · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

Was speaking with my cousing earlier who works in the industry and he said that even toshiba are starting to acknowledge blur-rays victory.

Im still sticking by my SD collection though!

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Bruce Russell · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

Wow, I'm glad I actually decided to wait, and thank God those Star Trek dvds are combo discs.

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Ghengis Con · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

Seems that Toshiba are indeed on the verge of going blue... http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080215c.php This is certainly a momentous development but is it the final nail in the red top coffin? What say ye learned folk?

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Whopper · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

	Ghengis Con wrote:
	is it the final nail in the red top coffin? What say ye learned folk?

Speaking as a learned folk-person second only to Mark. The final nail in this coffin will be when Microsoft create a Blu-Ray attachment for the XBox 360.
I believe that that is something that they had thought they might always have to do anyway, otherwise why did they not include HD-DVD as standard like Sony did with Blu-Ray in the PS3?

When we see any significant Microsoft support of Blu-Ray then Mark and I will declare HD-DVD officially dead and each episode of 2IGTV will be 10 minutes shorter Smile

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Crazy Clees · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

Netflix will be phasing out HD DVDs Crying or Very sad

Only good news... bargain bin high def!

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Ghengis Con · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

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	The final nail in this coffin will be when Microsoft create a Blu-Ray attachment for the XBox 360.

Thats an excellent point. In practical terms if a game is coming out in both fomats I imagine that developers are limited to catering for the reduced capacity of the HD disc. If both systems were to go blue then there would be no limiting factor. Of course this would require the bar to be raised in many areas...

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Ca$hMon£y · 2IGTV Noob Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

The bbc have just run a news story on the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray format war and announced that Toshiba are thinking of pulling the plug on its HD-DVD format.

It also said that Store John Lewis will no longer stock HD-DVD...

...now true or not, i cant see any Joe Bloggs member of the public in the UK who saw that report going out and buying HD-DVD...

So as predicted ppl, Blu ray all the way.

Chris Very Happy

Bruce Russell · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject:

I understand blu-ray is having it's own share of problems, and has in fact seen negative growth since HD-DVD quit the field. Creedon may be wise to skip an optical upgrade after all . . .

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