On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:18 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> http://www.news.com/Toshiba-says-to-quit-HD-DVD/2100-1041_3-6231027.html?tag=nefd.top
> 
> This might be a good thing now that Blue-Ray will win. 

It's a good thing for the consumer that finally there is one format.

It's a bad thing for the consumer that Blu-ray won IMHO. It's more
expensive (in every way, mastering, production of the discs, the
players), for little benefit (over HDDVD).

> But the other possibility
> is that Blue-Ray will die as well because of the high price of the player
> (including PS3).

I don't see why. HD is here. Prices will come down. I do believe that
BluRay will in no way be as successful as DVD. The reason being the
"download market" will start to be a major force. Why go out to buy a
movie on disk when you can just download it it? Today we aren't quite
there on the bandwidth side for the mass market, but we're not that far
away.

> What is your take on this?

Happy there is finally only one format, very sad that Sony won this time
around.

TTYL
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