Author Topic: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?  (Read 2578 times)

Offline Nemesis

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Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« on: February 19, 2008, 04:39:58 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23204819/wid/11915829?GT1=10939

"TOKYO - 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.

"We concluded that a swift decision would be best," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company's Tokyo offices.

The move would make Blu-ray — backed by Sony Corp., Matsu:censored:a Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic brand products, and five major Hollywood movie studios — the winner in the battle over high-definition DVD formatting that began several years ago."

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 04:55:48 PM »
Ironic how me and my friend talked today that blu-ray will be the future

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2008, 05:30:21 PM »
This was on the news 2 days ago. I can't believe it. That means we need to buy :censored:ing blue ray players :'( *buys ps3* well,I'm good now.

Or back to downloading movies, meh, I've already gottem, to damn lazy to convert @.@
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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2008, 06:25:28 PM »
This was on the news 2 days ago. I can't believe it. That means we need to buy :censored:ing blue ray players :'( *buys ps3* well,I'm good now.

Or back to downloading movies, meh, I've already gottem, to damn lazy to convert @.@
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If you didn't know that Blu-Ray was going to win about 12 months ago then you are blind...

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2008, 07:11:52 PM »
Dam i just saw this today, guess i gotta buy a :censored:ing ps3.. :censored:
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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2008, 07:17:39 PM »
heard about this 2 days ago, and at this time of hearing i  :censored: myself out of joy

been rootin' for blu-ray and it happened! just like with vhs and betamax one won, but this time the one sony backed

now i really have a reason to get a ps3-proprietary movie player for mah whole family

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 08:45:37 AM »
If you didn't know that Blu-Ray was going to win about 12 months ago then you are blind...

lol yea it was a bit obvious that blu-ray was taking the advantage but you never could of known hd-dvd could of somehow taken over the lead lol

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 09:28:51 AM »
i decided blueray would win as soon as it was going to be an internal drive in the ps3. if microsoft had done that with hddvd we would probably be having a diffenernt news story or the war would still be going on

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2008, 09:45:45 AM »
i decided blueray would win as soon as it was going to be an internal drive in the ps3. if microsoft had done that with hddvd we would probably be having a diffenernt news story or the war would still be going on

exactly what i thought too.

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Re: Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD battle over?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2008, 10:40:46 AM »
i decided blueray would win as soon as it was going to be an internal drive in the ps3. if microsoft had done that with hddvd we would probably be having a diffenernt news story or the war would still be going on
same here, although if the HD-DVD drive was in the 360 I doubt they would have sold as well as they did.

and the whole reason for me to say the Blu-Ray was the obvious winner is because when you have over 10 million PS3's sold compared to less than a million HD-DVD players sold, not even including the standalone Blu-Ray players you have a 10:1 lead...

 

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