Some sort of solid state media will probably replace blu-ray disks.

I do not own a blu-ray player (or an HDDVD player) but DO own an HD-DVD movie (Harry  Potter and The Latest cash Grab) - I was pleasantly surprised to find that it also played in my regular DVD player.

All discs will be replaced by USB flash drives. I've seen TaxCut sold in CD format and (right next to it on the shelf)  sold on 1 gig Flash drives.

Haha wow, I didn't know this would be over so quick. It surprises me that some people are surprised about this, seeing as hd-dvds have taken hit after hit, losing major companies to blue-ray. Oh well, I'm still perfectly satisfied with my DVDs, I don't plan on touching blue-ray for a while now anyways, so this news doesn't really phase me in any way.

Does anyone even OWN a blu-ray player?

Unless they make one that's backwards compatible with DVD's then I don't give two flying fucks.  It's not like there's anything available on blu-ray that isn't available on DVD.  Hell, spending 30 bux to watch AUSTIN POWERS in hi-def isn't even fucking worth it.

I have a feeling blu-ray will end up dying off eventually because NO ONE CARES.  HD-DVD's may have gone the way of UMD's but blu-ray will be following in its footsteps until something new comes out.

I kinda agree, I have hundreds of DVDs, and a Blu Ray doesn't offer me anything I really need. I mean to be totally honest VHS quality was good enough for me, but the whole special features thing is what's made me go out and get them on DVD. You know unless Blu Ray can provide holographic dick-sucking special features for when you're watching a boring part of a movie (action scenes or CGI effects for example) then it has no purpose for me.

I saw this coming. With the Bluray + PS3 combo there was no way it would fail (despite the hopes of many fanboys who wish failure to anything Sony is involved in).

Touché, its not that I'm a fan boy but I don't like the PS3 and when it came out with its extremely high price tag i never thought that they would keep the Blu-Ray that was the first thing that I imaged that they would ditch. I am really surprised that Toshiba is dropping out I was thinking that they would die out the production in like a year. This saddens me I wanted HD DVD to win they would have been cheaper and do you really need 50 GB per disk that's just an unnecessary amount of space for a movie.

I have a feeling blu-ray will end up dying off eventually because NO ONE CARES.

Noone cares about what, exactly? The Blu-ray format itself... or high definition quality?

This has little to do with game consoles dude. It has to do with a next gen media formats.... and which one will become the industry standard.

but but sony ps2 had dvd... and dvd won against... itself

you see it has totally everything to do with playstation, because playstation uses make up most (all) of the consumer electricals market...

Surely.

i thought hd-dvd would win because blu-ray is a retarded word

I remember hearing a while ago that a lot of major studios were going into Blu-Ray, and there were only a few that were doing HD-DVD, so this really isn't suprising.

Look here is a chart



dated 2007 some market share graph

the war...the war is over.

was it worth it you damn bastards

WAS IT WORTH IT.

Kaempfer, right now it's just a rumor, but the 360 is going to need something to combat Sony's PS3 in terms of high definition(movies). The only way now is going with a built in Blu-Ray reader or do what they did with the HD-DVD add-on. This might not have an actual effect on the 360 at all though, since I doubt people buy it for movies, and it has such a massive library of games as it is. You're right though, moving the games to Blu-Ray would be pointless.

I heard this too, that they were going to make a Blu-Ray addon like the HD Addon. And Kaempfer, the 360 doesn't read HD by default or they wouldn't need to sell and HD-DVD drive addon.

Now that it's all over, I have to tell you guys something important. VHS is better than blue ray because it's analog!

(don't take this as TROLLING, it's just an article from the past that is somehow relevant to this subject)

Now that it's all over, I have to tell you guys something important. VHS is better than blue ray because it's analog!

(don't take this as TROLLING, it's just an article from the past that is somehow relevant to this subject)

So many things wrong with this article, and is he forgetting the ease of use?  Who the fuck wants to track through a VHS movie to get to a particular scene?

Christ, and he said that VHS sound is better because it's analog...hahaha.

the war...the war is over.

was it worth it you damn bastards

WAS IT WORTH IT.

I hear that the HD DVD resistance has started taking place in Radioshack. Insurgents are sweeping the lands.

My dad has a big HD home theatre in our basement.  He seems like the target for the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray market--someone who wants the nicest picture and nicest TV, and can afford to get it.  Here's what I've noticed about this issue: the definition change is noticeable (I have seen both HDTV material on his theatre and Bluray/HD-DVD in stores since my dad doesn't have a player for either), but absolutely not worth the money to switch.  Yes, the definition is better, but no, no one is going to convert to this unless they have that kind of extra money laying around anyway (my dad has money but is reluctant to use it unless it's worth it to him) or it gets signifigantly cheaper.  Anything that looks nice to begin with (Advent Children was a good example, it had amazing quality and was just a plain DVD) is not going to have a significant enough change in quality to warrant buying it again, and anything that didn't look nice in the first place isn't going to interest you enough quality-wise to want to rebuy it.  The first things my dad watched on his TV were things like Serenity and other special-effects big-stuff-happening-everywhere type movies.  For the most part those kinds of movies are the only ones that people care about being such good quality, and changing for so few films just isn't worth it.

I could definitely see this technology dying before it can make it because it'll take too long for prices to be low enough for people to want to go for it (or in the case of a lot of adults even KNOW WHAT THEY EVEN ARE because most don't get what Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs are or how they work or what they need to function)

Noone cares about what, exactly? The Blu-ray format itself... or high definition quality?

Blu-ray.  I love HDTV and since everything will be converted to HD in the next couple of years there's no backing out of it but Blu-Ray seems to be entirely self defeating.  Besides the fact that you have a movie in hi-def, what is the extra space going to be used for?  You can fit an entire tv series run on a single Blue-ray disc but every company has money on the mind and would refuse to do this.  Why should I sell The Simpsons season 1-10 on a single Blu-Ray for 30$ when I could sell them by individual seasons for 30$?  The buyer begins to wonder "Where the hell is all that extra space going?" 

At the same time, who's going to buy the entire series run of Seinfeld for 200$ when it comes on 1 or 2 Blu-Ray discs that probably cost, what, 50 cents each to make?  The thing I loved about DVD's where the packaging.  I like buying box sets because it comes in this wacky case with flip out fold out stuff and it's big and purty to look at.  The Indiana Jones boxset (which normally comes in four cases and four DVDs) would most likely fit on a single Blu-Ray and if I bought a tiny, ugly blue case with a single disc in it then man, am I going to feel like someone kicked me in the nuts and stole my wallet.

All discs will be replaced by USB flash drives. I've seen TaxCut sold in CD format and (right next to it on the shelf)  sold on 1 gig Flash drives.

Yeah, mostly likely. More than 1 band have released their music on USB flash drives. I don't know if it will take off, but it's an option. Plus then I guess whatever it is could be manufactured with the space it requires (eg. an album wouldn't need a 1GB flash), so it's quite cost effective to. Like... how many games & dvds make the most of what's available on the disc?