Tag Archive for 'format-wars'
If you’re a supporter of the HD DVD camp and you’re thinking about purchasing a new player to show your devotion, you might want to hold off another month or two. Toshiba has just unveiled their new third-gen line of HD DVD players.
It looks like Target is going to try and put a nail in HD DVDs coffin by carrying a Blu-ray player and Blu-ray discs for the holiday season.
Target will begin carrying the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player sometime in October for $499. At that price, I can’t really see a point in buying it. If you’re [...]
I really love numbers, they are so great to use when persuading people to believe something that may or may not actually be true. Remember when we told you that HD DVD was kicking ass and taking names over in Europe? According to that study, HD DVD players were outselling their Blu-ray competition 3:1. Now [...]
I love pie charts. They can be very informative, but also misleading. I mean think about it, you can be convinced of just about anything as long as there are a series of pie charts to back it up.
So Blockbuster decided to select Blu-ray as their choice of which HD format to carry in their stores. The HD DVD group isn’t worried, as they have inked a deal with Amazon that will likely bolster the sales of their own HD format.
If you were hoping to a sort of truce between the two Hi-Def disc formats in the form of Warner’s Total HD disc, you’ll have to wait a little while.
We haven’t had any good news on the battle for the next great disk format in a while, so here’s your fix. The HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 has sold more units than standalone players.
According to some members over at the AVS forums there may be an issue of disk rot with certain Blu-ray disks.
Well, that’s it folks, Microsoft has finally stepped up and settled the Hi-Def disk war once and for all. And the winner is: no one.
Toshiba has just announced its first re-writable HD-DVD drive for notebooks. Here I thought it would be a couple of days before we got any new HD-DVD vs Blu-ray stories.
