Rob Enderle article: "Why Blu-ray should never have existed"

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this is the one i like....

# Comment by Ari — September 3, 2007 at 2:25 pm

Most enthusiasts now know that HD DVD would never have existed if Toshiba and Warner had supported Sony and Panasonic in 2002 when they were approached outside of the DVD forum about supporting their application to the DVD forum to have Blu-ray become the next generation successor to DVD. Warner and Toshiba claimed to see no value in a High Def disc format at the time.

It should not surprise anyone how HD DVD is basically a cutdown clone of Blu-ray since Toshiba received a preview of the Blu-ray technology years before they “invented” HD DVD.

I’m afraid your masters have fed you a sack of lies. HD DVD should have never existed.

the funny part...this is taken directly from that meeting back in 2002..look who was backing blu-ray back than:

Picture's fuzzy for DVD

By Junko Yoshida
EE Times
March 1, 2002 (3:55 p.m. EST)

PARIS - The look of the next generation of digital video disks got
harder to call when the DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this
week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for
high-definition DVD.

The DVD Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in
Tokyo, to stick with a red-laser-based scheme but switch to
low-bit-rate compression, came only a week after nine of the world's
biggest electronics companies agreed to promote a blue-laser-based
format for next-generation video and computer optical disks. That
format, the Blu-ray Disc, was developed outside the forum, but all
nine of the initial backers are forum members.

Looking to avoid what they say would be a costly shift to blue-laser
technology, steering committee member Warner Bros. and other
content-production companies are behind the new DVD Forum proposal,
which uses low-bit-rate encoding technology such as MPEG-4 to cram 9
Gbytes of high-definition video content onto a two-layer DVD. Blu-ray
uses MPEG-2 compression, as does the current DVD standard. A
single-sided 12-cm Blu-ray Disc would store 27 Gbytes of computer
data, record 13 hours of broadcast TV or hold two hours' worth of
high-definition video.

Of the 17 companies that sit on the DVD Forum steering committee, 11
approved the low-bit-rate encoding approach. The remaining six -
including Matsushita, JVC and Philips - reportedly abstained.

who are the NINE AND WHAT FORMAT DID THEY BACK:
The nine steering committee members backing the Blu-ray Disc are
Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer,
Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and
Thomson Multimedia. Aside from Warner Bros., the other committee
members are IBM, Intel, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research
Institute (ITRI), JVC, Mitsubishi, NEC and Toshiba.

http://lists.mpegif.org/pipermail/ne...ch/000063.html

HD DVD should not have even existed....