Why is there a war format ??

IN the end whichever Format or Formats That the Adult film industry Chooses and uses will probably Win ? That's pretty much killed the Betamax a technically Better format But The Adult Film industry Went with VHS and the rest is history! also VHs had longer playing/record Times ! Like the others said it's all about The 3 P's Power Patents & Prestige !!!!!!! Whoever has the Patents for the Dominant Format makes Loads of Money in licensing fee's from the other Mfrs.

 

like diabolos said, I think it's great we have format war. Just last year the hd-dvd player was $600. Now it's $300. Blu ray is $450 20gb ps3. Each company is working their ass off so they can win. Hd-DVD has great online content. If one of the company sells player for $100 than we'll have a winner.

 

Ok people the porn industry doesn't have the power it use to. The problem is that most of the porn industry isn't ready for HD and some fans see it as a bad thing since a lot of there stars don't look as god/goddess-like in HD.

Plus the companies that are racing to get enough HD content to sell have already picked HD DVD as it is cheaper (single layer anyway) and the interactive features are already in place. The only problem is that there is nothing stopping the porn company from using the Blu-Ray format or both formats. Beta's flaw (or Sony's bad decision) was that Sony would not license the technology to adult entertainment companies (or other manufactures). VHS (or JVC) didn't care who used their technology.

ars technica:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070112-8602.html

The NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/b...ml?ex=1327122000&en=ae526fc82277506a&ei=5088.

But all of this is meaningless because the difference is that all of Hollywood isn't format neutral so the battle is now for mainstream movie support. They (Sony, Toshiba, and Hollywood) designed the market this way. Its genius really. Nobody is making the same mistakes twice.

Ced

 

porn is not going to have big impact on the format war. Beta vs vhs was different story. It was the only way to watch porn. Now these days almost every one use internet. But porn companies did choose hd-dvd since it's cheaper.

I hope that we don't end up using both format, like those LG HD-DVD/Blu-ray player. That would be annoying.

 

It’s because Sony has yet to win a format war and steals the HD-DVD technology idea from another company and say’s “we invented Blu-ray” although there both technically the same thing DVD’s that have high capacity and read through a Blue laser instead of red.

Don't for get SONY wanted and still would like UMD to be the Standard but that is a failed format, and Minidisk and BETA MAX omg the list goes on.

 

Im was neutral with a large biased towards HD-DVD. Now im exclusive to HD-DVD. My PS3 (Blu-ray player) is sold as well as all my content. HD-DVD will win this by the end of CES 2007, if many of the rumors come true. The paramount/Dreamworks announcement was the first of many things to come. But its big, transformers, the summers biggest blockbuster in now exclusive to HD-DVD. Spiderman 3 (Which imho was a cry fest) will not hold a candle to transformers for sales numbers.

Presently 300 hit #2 on amazon for HD-DVD, the HD-A2 is the number 2 product sold on amazon. And HD-DVD sales are quickly out pacing Blu-ray on amazon.

Once warner (All IMHO) announces at CES2007 that they are also becoming HD-DVD exclusive its all over, and HD-DVD has won.

Sell your Blu-ray players quick, while there still worth something.

Everything written is all IMHO, im not an insider, just an HD junkie

 

**Mr. Fanboy butts in with nothing useful to say**

Go Blu-ray go!

Kick that HD DVD in its shiney silvery ass!

Go Blu-ray go!

...

Meh I like BluRay because I hate sony but hate Microsoft & Toshiba even more!

=D

Go Blu-ray fanboys (and fangirls) go!

B-L-U-R-A-Y!
bluray

 

I think you mean CES 2008 right? CES 2007 was held in Las Vegas last January.

 

Lol, I think someone's a little 'behind the times' eh.

 

transformers is coming out on hd dvd but its not coming out on blu-ray