Give it a break people!
HD-DVD v/s Blu-Ray
The VHS and Betamax wars of this century -- don't people learn?
Ars Technica
has the story:
Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD: Round XLVI
Sony and Toshiba have been duking it out for next-gen DVD supremacy for a while now, and it turns out that recent reports of an impending truce are almost certainly inaccurate. If you've been following our coverage of this fight, then you know that Sony first quashed hopes for a possible compromise by vowing to fight to the finish. Shortly thereafter, the rumor mill changed course and coughed up the story that Sony and Toshiba were considering a unified format as a possible compromise. That a compromise was in the works has been the conventional wisdom up until today, when two stories hit the wires.
And the final paragraph of the article sums up Toshiba's problem wonderfully:
If you want to read some good analysis of the problems with the new format, check out this Register article. Among the problems are the fact that the new disc will probably lose its cost advantage over Blu-Ray due to the need for factory upgrades, and existing HD-DVD readers won't be able to read the new format. All that, and the format still has 5GB less capacity than Blu-Ray. (Back when I was a youngster, 5GB was a lot of data. We appreciated the value of a gigabyte.)
Sony has a lot of problems following other people's standards but they have zero problems with setting them. In this case, Blu-Ray should be the way to go.
Posted by DaveH at May 12, 2005 10:16 PM