newb questions. please help me for business presentation

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Originally Posted by technewb

Ok. I am completely new to the blue ray technology and I know that all the information i possibly need is all here, but I am in a very bad time crunch. The questions im about to ask are very repetitive im sure but I have a presentation coming up and I dont really have time to weed through all the scattered information. If you could answer any of my questions or have any input, it would be greatly appreciated.

I am doing a presentation on an article about toshiba surrending hd-dvd and blu-ray coming out on top. This is for my strategic management class (business mgt. major) and I will be using Porter's five forces as a base for my presentation. A few questions I had are....

1) Time Warner switched to support blu ray, which was the main reason for toshiba dropping hd-dvd. What are the main causes for blu-ray to get such great support? I am only aware that the only major difference was the size of the dvds were larger with blu ray. I read that it might be because of royalties and blu ray has much better security features that will prevent china from illegally distributing. Is that true?

2) Can you burn blu ray dvds? What kind of security features does blu ray have?

3) Why did blu ray come out on top? Anything to do with marketing? It seems to me that blu ray and hd dvd were on level playing fields.

4)Why are people shelling out the money for blue ray? You can get an upconverter for under 100 bucks and it seems that the difference in quality is minimal. Do all dvds upconvert?

5) Blu ray defeated hd dvd. What now? What else are they competing against? Upconverters? Cable/satellite are showing movies in high def and i think some websites are going to directly stream movies in high def. Is this true?

6) Does blu ray now have a monopoly? I read that there are 10 companies producing blu ray but a month after tobshiba dropped out, blu ray prices increased 10%.

7) technology is changing so fast, do you think majority of people will switch over to blu ray? Many people are waiting for the right price but do you think something better could come out and take out blu ray? How long do you think blu ray will have this technological advantage?

8) Is there anything you dislike about blu ray? What would you change about it?

Please answer the questions from a business stand point. I am not here to take sides or anything. ( im actually looking to purchase a blu ray player for my dads birthday to put into his media room) Im looking for unbiased answers. Any extra input or important things that I might add in to my presentation; feel free to throw out there.

Blu-ray offers a scratch-resistant hard-coating that HD-DVD does not.
Wide acceptance of the Sony Playstation 3 can be attributed to Blu-ray's victory.
Software/Content. Blu-ray garnered more studio support early in the format war.
Hardware support. More manufacturers supported Blu-ray over HD-DVD.
Blu-ray is compatible with BD-Java discs and HD-DVD is not.
Blu-ray is competing against digital distribution (online downloads).
I do not like the long delay for the disc tray to open, or the delays encountered in disc-load time. I do not like having to watch previews before the feature begins.