Sony Corp. Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer said movie studios are starting to favor its Blu- ray DVD, which can store high-definition films and other media.
Sony, the world’s second-largest consumer electronics maker, is promoting Blu-ray DVD against rival Toshiba Corp.’s HD DVD to gain acceptance from film makers and consumers as the standard for offering sharper, more lifelike visuals in video players, games and personal computers.
Toshiba has said it expects that by December between 100 and 150 movie titles will be available in HD DVD in Japan and Europe and 150 to 200 in the U.S. About 100 films will be available on Blu-ray this calendar year, said Sony spokesman Daichi Yamafuji. The HD DVD disc can hold 15 gigabytes of data, compared with 25 gigabytes for Blu-ray and 4.7 gigabytes for a conventional DVD.
“This capacity, which seemed too luxurious a year ago, suddenly seems absolutely necessary,” said Stringer, 64, referring to Blu-ray’s advantage in data storage over the HD DVD. Stringer spoke today in Tokyo at a meeting with reporters.
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Studios leaning to Blu-Ray…..If only they could get Consumers to.
Thats how they are going to get customers joey. They try to compete with the top studios to go with them and then later they go back to others that have not or undecided and tell them.. this company signed on and leads them into going with them.
Yes yes yes…just gimme a burner.