Blu-ray Coming Out On Top?

wh0pper writes "Some interesting information came out at at the latest Blu-ray Disc Association meeting at Twentieth Century Fox Studios. Apparently, 90 percent of the CE industry and seven movie studios now back Blu-ray Disc. And most of the IT industry (except Microsoft) also supports Blu-ray Disc. This has prompted Mr. Parsons, Senior VP of Advanced Products Development for Pioneer Electronics, to say "There's no format war looming because it's not Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. It's simply Blu-ray versus standard definition DVD... Currently, DVD has 50,000 titles presently available, and both formats will co-exist for several years to come with new BD players supporting both formats. BD players make the perfect complement to new HDTVs that are being purchased by consumers." Mr. Parsons then announced that the upcoming CES would be used to launch Blu-ray Disc."

People can make up statistics to prove anything...

[Anonymous Coward]

Forty percent of people know that.

A reich that will last a thousand years!

[Siguy]

From the bottom of the article: But the bottom-line is that this is an exciting time to be developing next-generation high definition digital TV products that will take us well into the third millennium. ...Right. It's not like we all read news reports last week saying that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD would be replaced with HVDs within 10 years.

HD-DVD will win

[skyman8081]

I think that HD-DVD will win the end, simply because it is the inferior format. Which is usually is the one that wins in the end.

But Greedo shooting first must be nice at 1080p, either way.

This is great

[Depris]

I love it when major corporations fight large battles against each other instead of the consumer. ...Oh wait.

Re:Blu Ray is lame technology

[wo1verin3]

>> instead of some incremental advance on blu-ray that gives us 100 GB or something lame like that.

* wolv looks at spindle of 100 DVD-R
* wolv looks at 5-pack of 100GB discs

Yes... damn them and they better not give us those lame 100 GB discs.

Apparently...

[xiangpeng]

Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu [slashdot.org] won most of the industry over.

Re:A reich that will last a thousand years!

[Siguy]

I don't see how 10 years can be considered "well into" a thousand years.

If I'm saving up a million dollars to buy a date with Charlize Theron and I save 100 dollars, I'm not really that close, am I?
Sigh, not very close at all.

A Sony format winning in the marketplace...

[DCheesi]

...Law of Averages? Or sign of the Apocalypse??

Re:My DVR doesn't read DVD-RAM discs anymore

[mrchaotica]

Maybe this will help you figure it out. [wiktionary.org]

Re:A reich that will last a thousand years!

[Anonymous Coward]

If I'm saving up a million dollars to buy a date with Charlize Theron and I save 100 dollars, I'm not really that close, am I? Sigh, not very close at all.

You'll be glad to know that after the terrible mistake that is Aeon Flux, that Charlize will soon be on the market for more affordable prices.

So keep saving good sir. Get to a thousand and you may be in with a chance!

Re:When DVD first came out...

[spacefight]

Hey, you should still rewind [dvdrewinder.com] your DVDs to avoid those rewindig fees! ;)

Obligitory /. comment

[StaticFish]

1. Invent a new, mostly unneeded format 2. DRM it to hell 3. ??? 4. Profit!

I'm afraid...

[Anonymous Coward]

that it may install a rootkit on my tv.