Hooray for Blu-Ray
By in News on 8th January 2008
The battle lines were drawn in the sand on the desolate and windswept beaches of DVD land. The old format, sickening quickly now from its great age, had been unable to choose from amongst his offspring, his successor. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were the strongest, fastest and most wise of them all, and had agreed to the ancient rite of succession, to swim in the market place until only one survived. To the victor, the spoils of a long reign of supremacy, to the loser a one way trip to the Deadpool. This was clash of the titans all over again, two major contenders for global technology dominance, almost nothing to tell them apart in terms of backing and specification, Like Hollyfeild Vs Tyson (without ear biting of course.) Now, after a fierce battle it appears that the final nails in HD-DVD’s coffin have been hammered home by Paramount, which is rumored to be switching to exclusive Blu-Ray in the near future, according to www.crunchgear.com. So all of the R&D money poured into the Blu-Ray is about to come good, or is it? Many beleive that with the increase in online viewing, from both rentals and streaming video direct from the net, that it might all have been pointless, leaving dangerous holes in the Balance Sheets of all the companies concerned with next generation DVD technology. It seems that the Land of DVD is about to be overtaken by the burgeoning poulation of On Demand TV Land.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:47 am
It’s does seem that BluRay is becoming the standard in the industry with more and more companies switching to it. I’m pretty sure I heard Warner Bros will also be making it the exclusive format. Sony finally got one. Guess this will make up for BETAmax.
January 9th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Blu Ray is nothing spectacular in my eyes.All it is, is very simply a compressed format of DVD which allows for a near in noticeable rise in quality. I myself think is a waste.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I am happy that blue ray won out as the standard format. Blue ray format cd’s are a sight to behold.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Couldn’t have cared less about which of the 2 would make it, especially since HD-DVD is being used still anyways since paramount and dreamworks got a contract with them. Since the XBOX 360 makes use of HD-DVD as well I’m sure microsoft will begin releasing games in the format sooner or later too and eventually we’ll just be running with 2 different formats making us simply have to live with it.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Blue-ray disks are better and it deserved to be standard format.