AHC: HD-DVD wins the HD format 'war'

JJohnson

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The challenge is, HD-DVD wins the HD format war over Blu-Ray in the most plausible manner, whether it's X-Box 360 building it in or someone paying off WB to support only HD-DVD. What sorts of repercussions would there be in such a reality? Enjoy...
 
easy, they lost for the same reason VHS won over BetaMax, Porn sided with Blue Ray (and VHS before) have porn side with HD-DVD and it wins, as for effect, most likely none, in this age of downloadable/streaming movies a new generation of discs (Blue Ray or HD-DVD) are doomed likely Blue Rays won't over take DVDs before digital over takes all disc tech.
 
Won't matter, as streaming will still take over. BluRay IOTL never had the penetration that VHS or DVD had. I'm not sure of the security features and handshakes, but they're bound to be baked in by the MPAA.
 
One thing that could have changed things is if XBOX or Wii had come with HD-DVD one of the big pentrations of BlueRay was via the PS3 which put the tech in millions of homes
 
One thing that could have changed things is if XBOX or Wii had come with HD-DVD one of the big pentrations of BlueRay was via the PS3 which put the tech in millions of homes

This. Have Toshiba solve its hardware problems 3 to 5 months earlier and the XBox 360 would be a HDDVD player from the beginning.

Once the Ps3 gets in the streets ( the real reason BD won ) you have between 6 to 8 million HDDVD players sold in the world.

It would be difficult for Sony then ...

And it probably would mean more XBoxes sold too ( many people buy PS3 because during almost 2 years were the cheapest BD player )
 
are there any technical differences between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray to speak of? Anything that would be worse/better when one or the other is picked?
 
are there any technical differences between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray to speak of? Anything that would be worse/better when one or the other is picked?

Of course. Blu-ray has higher capacity discs (which really counts for nothing as no one is yet utilizing their full capacities), while HD DVD has had DVD-compatible discs since its creation. Blu-ray wasn't picked for that reason, though.

And yes, spinning discs are dead anyway, so the point is almost moot.
 
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