Product delays and lacklustre movie studio support could spell doom for the HD DVD disc format, which is struggling to gain a foothold in the Australian market as rival Blu-ray continues to extend its lead.
Not only has the Blu-ray camp managed to secure the exclusive support of five of the eight major movie studios (two of the remaining three studios support both formats), it has also succeeded in being the first to market with stand-alone players, and enjoys wider support from retailers.
These will be crucial factors in determining which format eventually takes over from the ageing DVD standard, as picture quality differences between the two are virtually indiscernible.
Retailer support is seen by many in the industry as particularly critical, as the advantages the high-definition formats offer over standard-definition DVDs are most effectively demonstrated through in-store demos.
being that sony owns blue ray and sony is for family safe content porn will have to use hd dvd or go blue ray dvdr and heavily invest in blue ray recorders and duplicators and blank media
at my store the PS3 brought some new life to blu-ray but i dont think its anything to be certian of yet. those studios have been backing blu-ray from the start and HDDVD was still looking more promising.
They still don’t have the porn. Case in point they have already lost.
How is this a story? What’s new here? How accurate is this? All it does is spread FUD. In the words of Adam Carolla “There’s TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!! Tell us when there is NOT trouble in the middle east THAT will be news.”