Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD was a 3 front war

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The HD-DVD camp didn't realize that the format war was on three fronts untill it was too late.

War Front 1: Movie Player - Blu-ray managed to win by taking more movie studios.

War Front 2: Gaming Console - Blu-ray included as standard in the PS3, HD-DVD not really in the game.

War Front 3: Computer Media - Blu-ray provides higher capacity and higher read/write speeds.

I personally thought the primary front was going to be in the computer media area. I did not expect everyone to argue about the formats for playing movies as the same quality output is seen on the screen. In computing media, there are huge differences. You can find 4x (144 Mbps) recordable Blu-Ray media in stores while you can only find 1x (36 Mbps) HD-DVD media. Blu-ray stores more with 50 GB vs. 30 GB disks currently produced and has the higher potential with 200 GB disks successfully tested vs. HD-DVDs 51 GB future disks. It suprised me greatly that these computing differences were not in the news when comparing formats.