Blu-Ray wins?
Jan. 5th, 2008 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomWarner backed Blu-Ray for the HDTV DVD standard, no longer siding with "both".
This is very exciting to me. Blu-Ray has much more storage capactity and high bitrate. It is the better standard from a technology wise. It's sort of like Betamax beating VHS. I was really converned that the lower technology would get the better market acceptance.
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funny thing...
Date: 2008-01-06 01:37 am (UTC)I think pushing the BluRay in the high-end PS3's was a huge win for both the PS3 and the BR standard. It got a bunch of houses-with-gamers [both kids and adults] into the BluRay market that might not have otherwise. [I would have most likely sat out the format wars until they settled out or the existing DVD player died...I'm not an audio/video-phile like many of my frends, and this is one of the few areas where I don't feel any need to be on the technological bleeding edge].
Of course, I wouldn't have the PS3 if I hadn't won it from my firm's employee referral program award drawing...but I think there's a general case for what I'm saying in the buying-consumer market.