Good WSJ Article on Sony & Blu Ray

[aberkowitz]

Published in today's Journal, it sheds some more light on why BD may have won, and gives a lot of credit to the PS3. Interesting quote- "If Toshiba had underwritten the cost of putting HD DVD onto the rival Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp., the reasoning goes, the battle might have swung another way."

Here's the link, and since I don't remember if the WSJ is completely unlocked yet, let me know and I'll post the text.

 

[evilkat]

Pretty interesting. I wonder if there will be some new announcements coming down the pipe at the end of CES?

 

[Soundman]

Published in today's Journal, it sheds some more light on why BD may have won, and gives a lot of credit to the PS3. Interesting quote- "If Toshiba had underwritten the cost of putting HD DVD onto the rival Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp., the reasoning goes, the battle might have swung another way."

Here's the link, and since I don't remember if the WSJ is completely unlocked yet, let me know and I'll post the text.

Nice article. Good information.

 

[Gimpy Ric]

Good stuff. I have at least 20 Blu ray movies, and the collection is growing. I love the up conversion of my old BDS-300. She's slow, but good

 

[j_garcia]

I'm up to 60+ BDs at this point, taking advantage of all the sales I have been picking up a few key HD DVDs though, but at this point I will be holding off on purchases of most of those pending fire sales and only for very specific titles that aren't Warner/NLC.

I don't agree that the 360 with an internal HD DVD player would have dramatically swung things the other way. It would probably have leveled the field more, but not tipped it entirely in their favor IMHO; it would have been more like 50/50 vs 65/35. They mentioned that BDs cost about 2x a DVD, but so do HD DVDs at this point, rendering the "costs less to manufacture using existing technology" completely moot.

 

[aberkowitz]

I'm up to 60+ BDs at this point, taking advantage of all the sales

I don't think there are 60 movies out on BD that I really want!!!!

I'm still waiting for Criterion to start issuing their movies on BD

 

[gus6464]

It's like the PS2 and DVD. A lot of people don't give Sony credit for that one but PS2 helped a lot in the adoption of DVD into people's homes. My friends and I's PS2s were our first DVD player.

 

[j_garcia]

I don't think there are 60 movies out on BD that I really want!!!!

I'm still waiting for Criterion to start issuing their movies on BD

At least 25 were replacing current versions. The others I picked up based on reviews (High Def Digest and others) or did not own, and so far I haven't had too many disappointments; a few yes, but for the most part they've been good.

I had a flagship DVD player long before I had a PS2.

 

[darien87]

I have about 30 BD's, but only 5 or so HD-DVD's. I can't believe how many BD's I ended up buying so fast. I just kept buying 1 or 2 here and there, but the collection grew really quickly.

 

[j_garcia]

I've also been buying movies since last December, so I've had time to grow that collection; it isn't like it sprung up over night