Prediction. "HD DVD wins and Fox and Disney onboard in 2007"

[JTK]

One thing I've said for months and I'll say it again here:

The PS3 certainly helps BD, but I do not believe it is the end all, be all of the format war.

I never have.

How much of a factor does it end up ultimately being?

That's all up to Sony. Sony needs to provide enough units to meet demand and the marketing/PR/advertising for the PS3 needs to be better than what it is write now, as of this writing.

The TGS was big for the PS3. God knows they were sorely overdue for some genuine buzz and enthusisam about the games and TGS did it for them.


I've seen a recent PS3 Tv spot and didn't do much for me. They need to step it up and start raiding the airwaves with PS3 ads that are good and compelling.


Blu-Ray, as a whole, is reliant on ALL of the BDA companies. Not just Sony. They ALL have to pitch forth and I think they will.


As a sidenote to that: I'm even starting to see really good word of mouth on the Pioneer Elite BD player, even from at least one individual who's been as belligerent of an HD-DVD supporter as possible, despite claiming to be a Sony and Pioneer installer. Some of you know who I'm talking about.


^^ When a person like that posts something like this:

Despite being a preproduction unit with much of the functionality diabled, I have changed my plan for adding Blu-ray to my system to now include the Pioneer player as one of two possible options, along with Sony's player. This demo unit is that good, at least as far as video quality goes.

The only reason Pioneer did not go to the top of the short list is that Sony is using the same Sigma Designs chip as Pioneer that enable native 1080/24P output and the Sony is quite a bit less money. My Sony Pearl projector REALLY likes 1080/24P and that has now become THE required feature for me.

Hell, the ground practically under foot when I read that from this person.

Believe me: This is a person who has been as arrogant, belligerent, and downright nasty of a BD basher as there could be, despite claiming to be an installer for Sony and Pioneer products. He's shilled HD-DVD for the last year as much as anyone could.

And yet look at what he's saying today.


THAT is where the format war begins and ends, right there, with that kind of enthusiast at that level.