Sony may have bought Blu-Ray an advantage by using it in the PS3, but trying to censor what's made available in the early adoption phase and exclude XXX material could destroy the format before it even got off the ground.

I can't believe they'd be that stupid.
I certainly hope they won't be, as I'd rather see Blu-Ray win than HD-DVD.

That UMD movies are a flop is, IMHO, neither here nor there.

A bit old, but: Digital Playground Chooses Blu-ray Format.

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I agree that it would be pretty stupid as handing adult content over to the HD-DVD side could be suicide for Blu-Ray.

Keep in mind that Sony hasn't done anything like this yet. The link is just one man's opinion of what could happen.

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No? Well, I guess that was my point.

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Darth, people have complained about two-dvd sets. It just isn't the biggest issue.

Some people say DVDs took longer to catch on because of the lack of adult material. Then again, the industry may have felt burned by the CD-Rom thing.

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Because the two companies went this route, when people went to the store, they saw about 10 VHS machines on the store shelf for every Beta machine that they saw. That caused VHS to take the lead. Once VHS took the lead, video stores started carrying more copies of VHS movies than they carried of Beta movies.

From there, it was all downhill for Beta as a consumer format, even though the quality of Beta was superior to that of VHS.

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Why would a Beta tape be worth anything if the player isn't? I actually have an unopened tape or two, so I am curious what to do with the thing besides filling a garbage dump.

I know a few years ago a few people would have spent money on a Beta vcr in good condition, if only to transfer the contents of their collection.

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it's not going to be a great storage medium in a few years for archival use either.rip apart a next-gen player and you've got a computer, the toshiba's are just some ddr2700 and an old mobile p4. they keep fighting and adoption's slow enough, optical storage is going to seem pretty retarded in a year or two in the land of multi-tb drives and bigger cheaper lcd monitors.

sony shit the bed staying proprietary with ATRAC3 in the start of the mp3 player era, hope they do it again.

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Edited by - croy on 4/24/2006 6:14:45 AM

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(I hope the net's backbone will be able to sustain those loads when such connections are commonplace.)

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I dunno about anyone else, but I'd rather see longer movies than higher res (Sure, higher res would be nice too). Assuming that authoring costs eventually sink to near-DVD levels, might we see the birth of a new niche (or even standard), superlong porn?

I don't know enough about the biz to speculate about the cost/pricing issues involved.

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As to who wins the war?

I am going with HD-DVD.

For no other reason then name recognition.

Either way I have no plans on getting one of the new players until a few years from now. My DVD collection is already in the 1300's why on earth would I want to buy extra copies of movies I already own. Much less doing so at a higher price then I paid the first time.

If Sony fails to release Adult titles on Blu-Ray or just goes with the "softer" companies then they will lose the format wars yet again. It doesn't matter how much better the format is if people can buy 50 different movies a month on HD DVD and only 10 different movies a month on Blu-Ray which to you think they will choose?

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