Blu-ray keeps claiming victory but I am still questioning why people are going for this format other than PS3 users.
HD-DVD is
backwards compatible
cheaper to manufacture and change over from a DVD manufacturing process
not a proprietary solution
Blu-ray
has Sony proprietary components
is more expensive in all parts of the manufacturing process
In real terms as far as the end user is concerned there is no difference in quality and potential features and the whole who can store the most issue is not really relevant.
I think the answer to this is that Toshiba dropped the ball with their marketing and getting partners like Microsoft to include the technology in their products. The movie producers are simply following the numbers they don't care about a particular format.
Toshiba and partners should have flooded the market with inexpensive machines a lot sooner and encouraged the Chinese manufacturers to being out sub $100 machines. The market in Asia has yet to be decided however and the population numbers will really count there.
I don't see the adoption of Blu-ray happening in the majority of Asia because of pricing and I suspect that it will got the way of SACD, isolated adoption and penetration but something else will take the real position sometime in the future.
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