You forgot the most important reason why blue-ray will win: the PS3. Come April, or whenever it launches, millions of people will be buying PS3s, and thus Blue-ray drives. Compare that with the small number of people who actually go out of their way to purchase an hd-dvd player, which will probably cost hundreds of dollars. When studios see a massive rollout of blueray and almost no rollout of hd-dvd, they'll all defect.
Nobody wants to release on a format that nobody will be able to watch.
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Micah Wylde @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM
You forgot the most important reason why blue-ray will win: the PS3. Come April, or whenever it launches, millions of people will be buying PS3s, and thus Blue-ray drives. Compare that with the small number of people who actually go out of their way to purchase an hd-dvd player, which will probably cost hundreds of dollars. When studios see a massive rollout of blueray and almost no rollout of hd-dvd, they'll all defect.
Nobody wants to release on a format that nobody will be able to watch.