Conflow Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Hi All,It was announced today that Toshiba have conceded to BlueRay and as from Mid-Summerthey will cease with HD.DVD Production, now leaving BlueRay as the 'de-facto' DVD Standard.Link and News below:-Brian.Conflow.http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6463_7-646251...tml?tag=nl.e501 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Hi All,It was announced today that Toshiba have conceded to BlueRay and as from Mid-Summerthey will cease with HD.DVD Production, now leaving BlueRay as the 'de-facto' DVD Standard.Link and News below:-Brian.Conflow.http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6463_7-646251...tml?tag=nl.e501This move was inevitable! I wonder if this will mean a reduction in the cost of Blu Ray discs.Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fh1805 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ron,With a monopoly market the price is more likely to rise - there's no competition now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 ronnie still believes in the tooth fairy:)ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedom Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ron,With a monopoly market the price is more likely to rise - there's no competition now!I'm not sure because if the Blu-ray consortium wants to replace the DVD format and be able to sell high definition equipment, they have to be competitive. A lot of people were waiting for a single HD format to invest in HD.I guess the blu-ray sales will increase now (for a same movie, the sales in this format represents now a tiny % compared to DVD) and let's hope it will allow to decrease the price for the mass production of disks in this format. And there is VOD which might be a even more bigger competitor than HD-DVD...Objectively, even if I invested in blu-ray, it seems HD-DVD was a better format for the end-user. More competitive for the prices (disk support and disk reader), technologically more advanced for interactive features and no region coding.Anyway, let's see what's happening now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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