Blu-ray Wins The War

#746 | Posted Saturday 16th February 2008 at 09:49am by Andi Smith

After a long and lengthy consumer confusing battle, it looks like for the first time in history Sony has won a media format war, and Blu-ray will become the new dominant HD format.

HD-DVD started off so well, yet the power of bundling a Blu-ray player with the Sony Playstation 3 (which also apparently plays games) meant it was selling around four times as many titles.

Now, with several large blows it seems HD-DVD has become a doomed format.

Film studios such as Warner Bros and Paramount have moved to Blu-ray from a previously exclusive showing on HD-DVD
Major American stores such as Walmart and Bestbuy are no longer stocking HD-DVD titles
Rental services such as Netflix and Blockbuster have discontinued HD-DVD rentals
And some HD-DVD player manufacturers have now discontinued making players altogether
Not forgetting, the porn industry is now moving from HD-DVD to Blu-ray, and the porn industry apparently was the major influence in the winner of the Betamax / VHS media war

So, with Blu-ray clearly the leader and Toshiba rumoured to be apart to announce the death of HD-DVD for good, let's welcome our new 50GB leaders for the new generation.

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