What "factual evidence" are we ignoring?

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by BTBuck1

here's what it comes down to in my opinion:

1) Americans love to root for the Underdog

2)It's cheap, it's always been nearly 50% less in cost to enter HDM through HDDVD at every stage of the game. Therefore you get people with small wallets but big mouths backing the format.

3) Typical way M$ generates spin and can manipulate people into following them. This is what Microsoft does best, they spin things. They hire a guy like Amir to go in and basically be all buddy buddy with members there, answering their questions and being a fluffer for the HDDVD. BD had zero insider, so it was like Mom & Pop (HDDVD) vs. Corporate conglomerate (Blu-ray). I seen this same thing happen on a car forum, two separate companies made a header for the same car, Company A was active on the boards, answering questions...playing the buddy buddy role, Company B had zero presence on the board. Despite company B's having a better product, because the Owner of Company A was constantly on the board, kissing butt to the tuners, answering questions and spinning things in his favor his product became the crowd favorite. His product was a little cheaper, about the same % as say an A30 vs. s300.

4) Early Blu-ray blunders: Blu-ray really could have had this thing over in 2006 had they been prepared. But because HDDVD was further along in their development it was a race to get their products out. HDDVD had a near 3 month head start and launched with some solid transfers of some popular titles. When Blu-ray came out, they launched alone with Samsung. Sony's player suffered delay after delay as well as the ps3 delays. Samsungs player was plagued by a Noise reduction filter activated in the firmware, that softened the picture. That coupled with some shoddy mpeg2 transfers like Hitch, House of Flying Daggers and Fifth Element (which was later remastered) Gave some serious bad press to blu-ray. Consumers were left wondering why they should pay twice as much for less quality. And at the time I couldn't blame them for their theory. HOWEVER, that all ended in about August of 2006, yet they rode it til the wheels fell off, and amazingly some still think it's how it is today, when in fact it's become a complete reversal!
With BD now having the WOW PQ & SQ on titles and HDDVD's generally being Meh in quality of late.

5) Finally those same cheap bastards will now fight to the end to defend their $200-$500 investment of an HDDVD player. Add in the hate factor for Sony by 360 fanboys who have picked up add on drives for their machines and you have a recipe for what we see today.


All in all, if you take Microsoft out of the equation, and had Blu-ray not fumbled so badly out of the gate, Blu-ray would be even further ahead today than they are now...Truth is, this thing would probably be over already. Toshiba was waiving a white flag even after the launch of their format, only after Blu-ray blew it so bad and showed their Ass did Toshiba grow a pair and decide to go all the way, that and the fact M$ decided to endorse them to try and offset any momentum ps3 would have on their 360.

That sentence is sig worthy