[ianirvin]

MACWORLD seems to have some news that the rest of the world hasn't noticed. Apparently, Blu-Ray is poised to win the DVD format wars.
Under the somewhat obvious heading "Blu-ray claims it's poised to win DVD format battle", hack Jim Dalrymple conducts a startlingly unbalanced interview with Pioneer senior vice president of product development, Andy Parsons.

Pioneer is one of the few supporters of Blu-ray left with many other drive makers either hedging their bets or going with HD-DVD.

The article trumpets the release of Samsung's first Blu-ray disk player next month, but fails to mention that it has come out late and behind the HD-DVD, which hit the shops in April.

It dismisses supporters of the HD-DVD format who include Toshiba, NEC, Intel and Microsoft because, "when it comes to getting players into people's homes Blu-ray has the power of the consumer electronics companies behind them".

It will be news to Toshiba and NEC that they not consumer electronic outfits any more.

"With content as king, both Blu-ray and HD-DVD went after the motion picture studios to publish content in their respective formats. While there were wins for both sides, ultimately Blu-ray came out on top," waxes the article, lyrically.

Warner, Paramount, Universal, NBC and New Line Cinema have backed HD-DVD. MGM had to be acquired by Sony before it nailed its colours to the Blu-Ray mast, along with 20th Century Fox and Columbia TriStar Group, who went voluntarily.

While most analysts think it is too early to write off Blu-Ray yet, most seem to think that it will have an uphill struggle.

None of this information seems to have been put to Parsons who seems to have been allowed to gabble on about Blu-ray being the best thing since sliced bread.

So why does MacWorld seem to think that HD-DVD is such a loser?

It might be something as obtuse as the fact that Microsoft backs HD-DVD and, natturally, anything the Vole likes must be evil. Other than Intel of course, that is now wonderful

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31674

Aparently having major movie producers agree to only realese movies in the blu-ray format and having the majority of the electronics manufactueres backing blu-ray is a bad thing? acording to this fellow. I liked his article so much I took the liberty of hitting the flame button to let him know just how much I liked it.