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Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - And the winner is...:
So keep an eye on the studios or the retailers, because the independent device makers are going to make stuff that supports both and to hell with the jerks who can't make a fucking decision. Any big player studio (Disney, Fox, Columbia/Tristar) or retailer (Walmart, Blockbuster, FYE, Tower, Borders) announce that they are going to pick one and only one format and you'll see that format the winner. It won't be the market, it just won't be in the hands of the hd-dvd makers.

They gave up their chance to have a monopoly early and are forcing themselves, and us, to waste 50% of our money (and them facing sadly low sales in the holiday season because nobody wants to take that risk), when they could have had it all...

If you want to end this war quickly, write to Walmart or Disney today and tell them to pick one and only one.
The end-game for HD-DVD came when Disney
  1. chose to be exclusively BluRay
  2. released Pirates of the Caribbean
The latter became the best-selling high-def release of any type, outselling the then top-selling HD-DVD (The Matrix) 3 to 1.

In short, I actually called it right - when Disney picked one exclusively, it set the standard.

Date: 2008-12-30 01:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klytus.livejournal.com
And here, I always thought it was whatever standard the porn industry went with that would decide. After all, I'd heard some good evidence that it was because they used VHS that Betamax eventually went the way of hoop skirts.

Date: 2008-12-30 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com
not sure if you're kidding (or how much) but this time 'round, the porn industry waited until the mainstream industry settled on blueray before they did. Until Jan 2008, most were putting out titles in both.

VHS v Beta is *partially* porn-driven, but much of that was because Beta was a patented standard (tapes had a licensing fee), where-as VHS was open. So VHS had 2 things going for it (to counter the fact that Beta was better quality) - longer time at home-taping speeds (6 hr), and cheaper for distributors because of cheaper tapes.

both HDDVD and BlueRay cost about the same in patent licensing (collectively, about twice as much as a normal dvd), so that wasn't a factor.

Date: 2009-01-02 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tomble.livejournal.com
I also think it had a lot to do with the naming. Saying 'aitch dee dee vee dee' is clunky, while 'Blue ray' has a nice sound to it.

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