Why HD-DVD & Blu-Ray Will Both Fail
21 Dec 2006 in Television by GarrickLast night, while getting an update on our latest winter storm, we caught a story comparing HD-DVD and Blu-Ray on a local network affiliate.
The story was all about which new format will fail, and comparing Blu-Ray against Sony’s non-adopted BetaMax (and dare I include MiniDisc and Memory Stick). It didn’t hint at a winner, but I see both failing.
Here’s one reason why:
BBC to distribute high-def programming on Azureus
Here’s another:
Swarmcast High Definition streaming
ELSEWHERE:
Tim’s voting for HD-DVD
Comments (2)
Tim added these pithy words on Dec 29 06 at 12:22 pmI think both optical formats are temporary from a technical point of view, but will be adopted because of the big content owners paranoia over piracy. This will leave a large opportunity for community generated content to gain an audience.
Clearly 2007 will be the year of iTunes video and Xbox Live Marketplace downloads, many in HD format, but if you want to watch The Searchers in HD, HD-DVD is the way to go right now.
Eric Pontbriand added these pithy words on Jan 08 07 at 1:17 amThings aren’t “Black and White” like they were in the days of the Laserdisc though.
Take a look at UMD’s. They don’t appear to be going anywhere, and they seem to be selling fine. It’s so cheap now to produce these things that it doesn’t matter to the industry how many formats they have to deliver.
Ultimately though, it’s the hard drive that will win the war. XBOX live service and their delivery of HD movies is just a taste of what’s to come in the future.
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