Yet another group of industry analysts is predicting that next year will almost certainly see a single dominant HD disc format emerge next year. Unlike recent speculation from Screen Digest, however, the report from Understanding and Solutions includes predicting which side it will be. In their analysts' estimation Blu-ray will emerge as the victor in 2008.
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Originally posted by varnull: So .. sitting there with western turned eyes you think hollywood is an important global player in the film/media industry?
There is a huge amount of wool pulling being done here.. wait until the massive Indian and Hong Kong studios decide to go HD.. and because they sell into a truly global market guess which format they will go with.. I can pretty much guarantee it will not be anythng region coded...
As for the so called huge blu-ray sales increase.. buy a ps3, send in the ticket and within 70 days get 5 films.. those will be classed as sales.. Also there is a lot of the bogo going on as the desperate sony try to keep yet another failed format alive... They did exactly the same with films on umd until they gave up.
Now if the hd camp really want to kill this blu-ray idiocy once and for all what they need is.... a standalone recorder and reasonably priced blank media.
Keep going hugh.. you won this argument months ago bud
Hollywood/media conglomerates they are far beyond local considerations , yes hollywood or the media mafia in the US plays a key role in things but there is more than 1 key to this puzzle.
Even world wise the market is split with a 10% diffreance once you add up where the formats are theres still plenty of life in the current direction of this format war, that direction being 1 winner but it could as easily break apart and they both join forces.
In he end lower prices to cosnuemrs is what is most important and if BR can price break it should drown HDVD easily.
Originally posted by varnull: So .. sitting there with western turned eyes you think hollywood is an important global player in the film/media industry?
There is a huge amount of wool pulling being done here.. wait until the massive Indian and Hong Kong studios decide to go HD.. and because they sell into a truly global market guess which format they will go with.. I can pretty much guarantee it will not be anythng region coded...
As for the so called huge blu-ray sales increase.. buy a ps3, send in the ticket and within 70 days get 5 films.. those will be classed as sales.. Also there is a lot of the bogo going on as the desperate sony try to keep yet another failed format alive... They did exactly the same with films on umd until they gave up.
Now if the hd camp really want to kill this blu-ray idiocy once and for all what they need is.... a standalone recorder and reasonably priced blank media.
Keep going hugh.. you won this argument months ago bud
I can't see how you can still side with hugh. What does the Indian and Hong Kong studios have to do with HD sales in the US. How many Americans play Indian and Hong Kong films? Not many. I agree that these locations may side with the HDDVD format but it will not be a benefit for those here in America with HDDVD players. How many of these other countries watch American made films? Many. With Warner and it's subsidiaries sided with bluray, HDDVD is living on bought time (150million). Once Paramounts agreements with the HDDVD camp are up, they will have to switch their efforts to the Bluray format. Also take into account the fact that Apple will be incorporating Bluray into their computers as well as several other manufacturers adds to the momentum of the Bluray boulder.
Originally posted by varnull: So .. sitting there with western turned eyes you think hollywood is an important global player in the film/media industry?
There is a huge amount of wool pulling being done here.. wait until the massive Indian and Hong Kong studios decide to go HD.. and because they sell into a truly global market guess which format they will go with.. I can pretty much guarantee it will not be anythng region coded...
As for the so called huge blu-ray sales increase.. buy a ps3, send in the ticket and within 70 days get 5 films.. those will be classed as sales.. Also there is a lot of the bogo going on as the desperate sony try to keep yet another failed format alive... They did exactly the same with films on umd until they gave up.
Now if the hd camp really want to kill this blu-ray idiocy once and for all what they need is.... a standalone recorder and reasonably priced blank media.
Keep going hugh.. you won this argument months ago bud
