The Losers in this HD battle could be big ones.
09-09-06 | 12:28 PM
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The Losers in this HD battle could be big ones.
By the way things are shaping up i think its fair to say that if there is a loser in this format war that it will be a much bigger loss than any previous format war both in terms of studios and the purchasing customer. The more I look at it the more it looks like this will be a battle that plays out over not the next couple months but over the next couple years. With that being said company's are going to be investing a boatload of cash into these formats and some like Sony have really placed thier entire reputation on that success.
I was certainly around for the big VHS-Beta war but didnt really follow it as I was pretty young at that time and by the time I really got into it Beta had already lost. How comparable do you guys think this format war is to that one? For one how long did that battle go on before Beta bailed out and were the cash investments anything like what we are seeing today?
I fully expect the HD format to really catch on with the major population especially when you look at the rate of people switching to flatcreens and HDTV's. I just cant imagine how much it would suck to have the format you supported fail after giving it years of support and spending thousands of dollars on it. I am lovin HD-DVD right now but I would be lying if I said I was 100% sure it was gonna be around in 2-3 years. Sony is a pretty big company and they have staked pretty much everything on BD so you wont see them going down anytime soon and definitly not without a fight. Also the fact that a few of the major movie studio's are not in the HD-DVD camp has me a little concerned. Anyways I was just wondering what your guys take on this is.
Obviously the longer this war goes on the more everyone has to lose if a format goes under and again this is looking like it could be a long one.
Do you think only one will be victorious or do you think both formats will survive side by side and am I the only one who is still a little nervous by adopting a format this early when there is a format war going on?
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I was certainly around for the big VHS-Beta war but didnt really follow it as I was pretty young at that time and by the time I really got into it Beta had already lost. How comparable do you guys think this format war is to that one? For one how long did that battle go on before Beta bailed out and were the cash investments anything like what we are seeing today?
I fully expect the HD format to really catch on with the major population especially when you look at the rate of people switching to flatcreens and HDTV's. I just cant imagine how much it would suck to have the format you supported fail after giving it years of support and spending thousands of dollars on it. I am lovin HD-DVD right now but I would be lying if I said I was 100% sure it was gonna be around in 2-3 years. Sony is a pretty big company and they have staked pretty much everything on BD so you wont see them going down anytime soon and definitly not without a fight. Also the fact that a few of the major movie studio's are not in the HD-DVD camp has me a little concerned. Anyways I was just wondering what your guys take on this is.
Obviously the longer this war goes on the more everyone has to lose if a format goes under and again this is looking like it could be a long one.
Do you think only one will be victorious or do you think both formats will survive side by side and am I the only one who is still a little nervous by adopting a format this early when there is a format war going on?
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09-09-06 | 12:37 PM
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Merged into the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray thread.
