Blu-Ray vs HD DVD

[Bizi Jones]

Originally Posted by 5vz-fe The only downside I think is that it doesn't do bitstream on HD audio. Hell, it's not planned to be a full time player to start.

just set it to pcm, and let the ps3 decode hd audio...

and supposedly there's a firmare update coming that will allow for dts-ma bitstreaming...

[5vz-fe]

^That has been in the rumor for a very long time.

[Bizi Jones]

not really ps3's been out like what, a year and a half...the rumor is that sce is waiting for more players to come out that can bitstream dts hdma, the new panny etc...before it release it for ps3 (like they did with profile 1.1 players)

[ae86_16v]

Old news now, but interesting indeed:

Originally Posted by Gizmodo PIttsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Don Lindich reports a dirty bit about Warner's defection to Blu-ray that we had uncovered in our own reporting of the format war at CES, and which we had confirmed through a different source (except for the payouts), though were holding close to our chest while we worked some other angles. Warner actually wanted to go HD DVD. They gave Toshiba the chance to bring another studio into the HD DVD camp before they turned Blu. Fox was lined up, and told the HD DVD camp it was going to switch to HD DVD, which would've also turned Warner exclusively HD DVD. At the last possible minute, it nixed the deal. Lindich says it's because Fox received a reported $120 million payout from Sony to stay Blu-ray—Warner then switched and received between $400 and $500 million for its defection. BW says it's closer to $400 million. In our phone call with Warner Kevin Tsujihara said it wasn't a bidding war that brought them over—that's true, in the words of Ben Kenobi, from a certain point of view. [Post-Gazette]

http://gizmodo.com/344680/the-real-r...r-went-blu+ray

[Bizi Jones]

heh, didn't they have to write a retraction to that after...cause it was such fud spewing crap

yeh...

As it happens, I've actually spoken about this today with Fox's senior VP of corporate and marketing communications, Steve Feldstein, who echoed something Warner's Ron Sanders has also said in recent days: "The kind of money they're talking about [in these stories] isn't worth jeopardizing a multi-billion dollar business." In other words, payoffs would not have impacted Fox and Warner's decisions. Feldstein also told me that when The Pittsburgh Post Gazette piece broke, he contacted Lindich immediately to let him know that he was being misled by someone. When Don posted the same piece on his own blog, it was edited to reflect this. Specifically, the references to $120 million and $500 million payoffs were gone - something that's worthy of note.

[5vz-fe]

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news..._Expected/1479

http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/20...U18022008.html

oshiba has scheduled a press conference for later today, at which it is widely expected to announce that it is officially ceasing support of the HD DVD format. Japanese news site Nikkei.net broke the news that Toshiba has scheduled a press conference for 5pm Tokyo time Tuesday (that's 12 midnight PST), at which the company is expected to announce that it will immediately stop manufacturing all HD DVD hardware and that it will cease selling them at retail by the end of March. The news comes on the heels of a rapid succession of high-profile setbacks for the format over the past last week. First, three major retailers -- Netflix, Best Buy and Wal-Mart -- each announced plans to endorse the rival Blu-ray format, followed by intense speculation that Toshiba was mulling over its exit strategy for the nearly two-year old next-gen format (a claim that the company later confirmed, though it stopped short of declaring whether any decision had been made). Needless to say, we'll keep you posted on any news out of Toshiba's press conference tonight, as well as any other developments as they unfold.

I think that's the closing end for HD-DVD.

[RC45]

Looks like Betamax finally won out

[Bizi Jones]

[ae86_16v]

Originally Posted by RC45 Looks like Betamax finally won out

Haha, partying like it is 1988.

[5vz-fe]

The party came 20 years late...but I guess it's better late than never LOL

[ae86_16v]

That's it ladies and gentlemen:

http://gizmodo.com/357957/toshiba-kills-hd-dvd-official
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/19...t-war-is-over/
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...ps_HD_DVD/1477

Q&A:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/l...ence-in-tokyo/

Official Casualties:
Xbox 360 drives (worldwide) - 300k
US - 600k units
Europe - 100k units
Japan - 30k units

[RC45]

Originally Posted by ae86_16v That's it ladies and gentlemen: http://gizmodo.com/357957/toshiba-kills-hd-dvd-official http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/19...t-war-is-over/ http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...ps_HD_DVD/1477 Q&A: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/l...ence-in-tokyo/ Official Casualties: Xbox 360 drives (worldwide) - 300k US - 600k units Europe - 100k units Japan - 30k units

Maybe now Micro$haft will get it through their thick skulls that its just easier to back Sony and get more sales in the end

Hopefully M$ will make the XB0x360 properly USB compliant now, as it is, with HD-DVD gone, there is no redeeming quality that XB360 has that PS3 can't address

[5vz-fe]

Who knows, they might buy whole lot of PS3s and change them to 360 shells LOL. That should solve the overheat problem.

[HeilSvenska]

At least they didn't try to sell HD-DVD integrated XBoxes. That would've been catastrophic.

[5vz-fe]

^No kidding.