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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
<font color=skyblue>This is what I learned recently from a guy where I bought a movie...hehe...
The two new DVD formats are coming out this year.
HD DVD, owned by Microsoft and has a few people like WB supporting...
Blue Laser DVD, owned by Sony and a lot of support from others.
Word has it, the HD DVD is more expensive and not as good as Blue Light, though HD is still higher up than standard. HD DVDs only matter if you have a HD TV.
Blue Light DVD players will be around $600, and will play older DVDs.
Old Players will not read the new disks.
If you would like to add anything here, please do. I am basing this whole post on a guy's verbal explanation to me...but have only skimmed the internet for any confirmations...</font>
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A few things to correct:
HD DVD is being devolped by Toshiba. Its biggest supporters on the hardware end are NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, and Intel. Microsoft and Intel are pretty recent additions to this list. It has three major movie studios that will support it, Paramount, Universal and Warner Brothers.
Blu-ray is being devolped by Sony. It has support from a number of companes who are known as the "Blu-ray Disc Association". A list of all the companies involved is avaible at
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_i...009/Index.html
To start at least HD DVD is probably going to be the cheaper format, it is able to leverage current DVD manufacturing technology more and therefor has lower startup costs.
The best estimates I've seen put low cost blu-ray players at ~$1000 to start, and Toshiba says they plan to sell a low cost HD DVD player with a retail price of $500 soon.
The other thing to note is that currently HD DVD is going to beat blu-ray to the market by 2 months.
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Originally posted by Bungleau:
Perhaps... but Sony's ownership didn't do much to help Beta in the war against VHS, in spite of its technical superiority...
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Early Betamax tapes were only able to hold 60min worth of video. People didn't care how nice their recorded movies looked and sounded, it didn't make up for the fact that they could only record half of it.
[ 03-02-2006, 07:04 PM: Message edited by: Seraph ]