The Showdown: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD

[erdega79]

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messa...79/129058.html

this about sums it up. Bottom line blu ray will be chosen primarilly by computer people because storage is everything and everyone else will follow

[hmurchison]

Still to early to tell.

I'm not really buying into the whole Blu-Ray is going to dominate computers and then Movies mantra. 50GB per disc is cool but that's not earth shattering compared to what backup options we have today.

I think price is going to play a significant part here. Consumers don't want to spend more money than they already are paying for DVD. Cheapest product wins.

[erdega79]

Originally Posted by hmurchison

Still to early to tell.

I'm not really buying into the whole Blu-Ray is going to dominate computers and then Movies mantra. 50GB per disc is cool but that's not earth shattering compared to what backup options we have today.

I think price is going to play a significant part here. Consumers don't want to spend more money than they already are paying for DVD. Cheapest product wins.

and you are right that price is the major point. This makes blu ray even more attractive since prices should be comparable to today's dvd and the multilayer expandability( up to 200GB at the moment)makes it a perfect and very compact data storage solution.

[hmurchison]

Man 200GB...that's really tantalizing to me.

By the time these discs hit I should be recording HD video with whatever camera I can afford in the future. It'll be a huge boone to Indie filmmakers who need adequate space to offload their shoots.

I admit that I was leaning HD-DVD but reading up more has changed that towards BD. However I remain cautious...even skeptic in ways. I'll know more soon enough I suppose.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by hmurchison

Man 200GB...that's really tantalizing to me.

By the time these discs hit I should be recording HD video with whatever camera I can afford in the future. It'll be a huge boone to Indie filmmakers who need adequate space to offload their shoots.

I admit that I was leaning HD-DVD but reading up more has changed that towards BD. However I remain cautious...even skeptic in ways. I'll know more soon enough I suppose.

For those who remeber the VHS vs Beta war.... I'll repeat what I said in a thread months ago. The "Beta is better" mantra didn't win the market. Price did. VHS was a cheap technolgy at a cheap price and people snapped it up. Flooding the stores with cheaper VHS tapes probably played a phsycological role as well.

HD-DVD actually has a snow balls chance in hell if they get to market FIRST for LESS. Once the inertia of blu-ray is damaged, it will be like a title wave....will sweep in and be no stopping it. I'd hate for it to happen this way. Blu-ray investors will lose billions of dollars. But HD-DVD has investors as well.

I commend Sony for putting up the white flag. But now you have to offer something for the investors of hd-dvd. You need to absorb them so this becomes a win-win situation.

[thunderhawk]

yeah...

and using BD for major back-ups...

Big hard disc drives are becoming huge in storage (though they can't keep on growing, the limit of their technology is in sight) and cheap too...
Blu-ray is too expensive for big backups... (for companies for example)

Blu-ray will probably get major PC users behind them. (comsumers)

All I'm afraid of (for BD) is HVD, if they get the patents of Collosal Storage, their format will be full grown...