Blu-Ray Wins Format War

[seanboy]

"Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video."

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/technology/toshiba.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008021904

 

[Brian]

Its actually quite sad, with all the encryption on the blu-ray disks you have to spin those disks way to fast, (faster than just normal read speed) which means they get very hot, and they get hot quick.

 

[dgridley]

Hm, just like the old days.. Beta was better than VHS but lost out.. some say because porn drives the market and they supported the VHS format. :D

 

[Barrucadu]

Damn, now I'll have to get a Blu-ray player as well as my HD DVD player

 

[htmlindex]

Great news for my Blu-Ray domain

Go Blu-Ray!

 

[planoali]

Hm, just like the old days.. Beta was better than VHS but lost out..

Except blu ray was clearly the better product when compared to hd dvd.

 

[monaco]

Blu-ray *is* the better product...I'm glad the porn industry was thinking with their...uh, well, "thinking head" this time.

Great news for PS3 owners, bad news for Microsoft. Maybe if they'd integrated HD-DVD into the base model of the 360 the format would have done better.

 

[eggymusic]

i got
BLURAYERS.COM

 

[monaco]

i got
BLURAYERS.COM

You'll probably lose that domain eventually if the blu-ray ppl see it... :/

 

[eggymusic]

i think i am going to develop it like reviews etc about blu ray stuff...any ideas as what kind of site i should be using this name for...

 

[monaco]

i think i am going to develop it like reviews etc about blu ray stuff...any ideas as what kind of site i should be using this name for...

How about somewhere that people can go to find low prices on blu-ray players and other blu-ray hardware? Like, scrape places like slickdeals, newegg, woot, etc and grep out all the blu-ray hardware.