http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/ Engadget Comments for Sony claims Blu-ray "winner" in format war http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
While a format war is the worse thing in the world for us consumers and helps no one in the end. It has to end NOW. We want our HD movies on our big screens ... especially now that I will be going onto my second TV (for another room)]]>Feb 20th 2007 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 14th 2007 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 14th 2007 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
One local Circuit City EXPANDED their HD DVD section by a factor of two, brining it in line with their Blu-ray selection.

Things may be different where you live... not everywhere.]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
I swear, any time Sony says anything positive, Engadget calls them out on it. I'm sick of this!!

You can't argue with the numbers, Engadget, no matter how tight you hug your Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive.]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 14th 2007 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
Its only a matter of time now... bye, bye HDDVD.]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/and if the war is over and blu-ray won, that means i made my perdiction right about 2007 :) yay]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
Cheap storage + fat bandwidth will make optical discs irrelevant.]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 14th 2007 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Duh of course nobody would count free movies as sold movies.

JV: Actually it would be more accurate to compare Blue-Ray to VHS(4 hours of VHS record time) and HD-DVD to BetaMax(1 hour of Beta record time). Why VHS won was because of the higher recording capacity. Get it? Blue-Ray higher capacity?

Humpty: Thats kick a$$ marketing strategy, 7 of the big studios supporting Blue-Ray, only 1 exclusive for HD-DVD. More backing more movies more selection!

Vimal: I have yet to see any other company "open their mouth" and say something bad about themselves.
Don't be a hater.
]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Duh of course nobody would count free movies as sold movies.

JV: Actually it would be more accurate to compare Blue-Ray to VHS(4 hours of VHS record time) and HD-DVD to BetaMax(1 hour of Beta record time). Why VHS won was because of the higher recording capacity. Get it? Blue-Ray higher capacity?

Humpty: Thats kick a$$ marketing strategy, 7 of the big studios supporting Blue-Ray, only 1 exclusive for HD-DVD. More backing more movies more selection!

Vimal: I have yet to see any other company "open their mouth" and say something bad about themselves.
Don't be a hater.
]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
>> JV: Actually it would be more accurate to
>> compare Blue-Ray to VHS(4 hours of VHS record
>> time) and HD-DVD to BetaMax(1 hour of Beta
>> record time). Why VHS won was because of the
>> higher recording capacity. Get it? Blue-Ray
>> higher capacity?

Actually, it'd be more accurate to see who the pron industry is backing since THAT is what won the last format war. Currently the porn industry back HD DVD. See where this is going? kthnxbye.

-p-]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Reason why HD-DVD is lagging is because they're releasing so little amount of movies! Blu-ray just keeps popping one out in 4 or 5 movies at a time (maybe less sometimes).]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
Actually they open their mouths well after the poop hit the fan. Currently the PSP and PS3 are wildly successful. If Sony says it, it must be true. To be fair, I bought a PSP a few months ago...although I only bought it for homebrew capabilities. I already had to mod the d-pad because the thing has a definite design flaw that Sony refuses to address or even admit to.]]>Feb 13th 2007 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Plus, you over estimate porn. Porn sales via internet greatly overshadow than hardcopy orders.

This time around majority of movie studios are backing Blue-Ray this is going to be a key factor. When majority of the contents are on Blue-ray consumers will go with the format which they can buy their favorite movie. ]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
Don't post made up numbers either... we want hard core sales data.

You are writing a check your butt can't cash right now.]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/In a couple years by law all broadcast must be in Hi-Def. Already many consumers are purchasing Hi-Def TV in droves, in a few years it will only be inevitable that most TV consumers will have will be Hi-Def(also the price should drop accordingly).
With Hi-Def TV the demand for Hi-Def content will be inevitable. Hi-Def players should replace DVD.
Within the next few years you may find yourself at BestBuy buying a $60 Blu-Ray player. Thats what happened to DVD players.]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
And no, 480p is not hi-def.

-p-]]>Feb 14th 2007 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
During that month, Best Buy had a Buy One Get One Free deal. Gee... I WONDER what that will do for their "sales" numbers?

Let's pull out collective heads out of our asses and see this for what it is: one month of sales data being used as part of a PR campaign to convince consumers to choose Blu-ray.

I own both formats, so before you go screaming "troll", check yourself. This war is FAR from over, especially when you consider that LG just released the first dual format player. Also CONSIDER the fact that the HD DVD camp has a TON of Asian manufacturers lined up to crank out affordably priced HD DVD players.

What happens when the market is flooded with sub $500 HD DVD players while the Blu-ray camp struggles to break the $800 mark? (save for the PS3 and Samsung BD-P1000, the former being sold at a loss and the latter about to be discontinued)

Blu-ray backers will have to lower prices to compete, else they risk being blown out of the water when consumers choose the less expensive hardware. Regardless, this war will get much nastier before a winner is declared. It's entirely possible that we have two formats just like we do with DVD+R and DVD-R. The two are so similar that you can't go wrong with either one.]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/If they were to gauge things that way no one would possibly see a future for the PS3 but we all know that down the line the early figures dont mean squat. Cocky bastards. Victory cant be declared so early in the fight.]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/Feb 13th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/umd.html

The strong Blu Ray sales are probably a result of many PS3 owners purchasing at least one movie. Just like PSP owners did with UMDs...I don't think anyone would consider the UMD format a winner.]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
I would never spend hundreds of dollars to just to be able to see the button on a guys shirt better. Yes I love HD, but nott enough to pay 10 times as much for a player and 2 times as much for each movie.]]>Feb 14th 2007 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
Thanks for the tip, I will check these sites.

Psst, some innovative features, like things I've seen on sites 10 years ago would be nice. Look at a site like storagereview.com, they collect discreet values over time so you can compare and profile things. You can then do things like _intelligently compare_, as well as features like "automatically notify me when a gsm mobile with gps, wifi, usb host, at least 320x200 touchscreen and weighs not more than 120g becomes available," as well as forming interest groups. Smart, useful. Not smart-assed, not trying to stir up controversy that wastes my time.


]]>Feb 13th 2007 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/sony-claims-blu-ray-winner-in-format-war/
I am #)$(*#()$* glad when one company copies another company's good feature. It can go too far and innovation can be stifled, but everyone copies everyone and there is so much ground to be covered before the gadgets we waste our time on are even half decent, it is stupid to not just accept that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and move on to seeing what is unique - like a lower price point, different market, etc.

To competition.
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