Comments on: Why HD-DVD & Blu-Ray Will Both Fail http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/why-hd-dvd-blu-ray-will-both-fail User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eric Pontbriand http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/why-hd-dvd-blu-ray-will-both-fail/comment-page-1#comment-11869 Eric Pontbriand Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:17:08 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/why-hd-dvd-blu-ray-will-both-fail#comment-11869 Things 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. Things 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.

]]> By: Tim http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/why-hd-dvd-blu-ray-will-both-fail/comment-page-1#comment-10723 Tim Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:22:25 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/why-hd-dvd-blu-ray-will-both-fail#comment-10723 I 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. I 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.

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