Comments on: Consumers Didn’t Choose Blu-ray to Win

By: Ralph Wiggum

Ralph Wiggum — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:37:34 +0000

Ralph Wiggum…

The pen is really mightier than the sword, as you have proven here….

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:11:08 +0000

big names or not, the one who developed the format was sony.

Its also gotten poor implementation, how could players be released that couldn’t play disks, its ludicrous and yet there wasn’t all hell breaking lose over it, I found only a hand full of blogs even bothered to report much on it and even then, nothing really happened from what i heard (I could have heard wrong however)

HD-DVD despite its flows was delivered cleanly to market and worked, had few faults and the ones it did have where small.

Mr Butterscotch, its not that I want normal DVD’s to stay around, its that I don’t want another crap format from sony, I still want HD content, I own a 50′ HD plasma, I want it to be put to full use, but I don’t want to do it with a poorly made product.

I own a Sony Ericsson mobile phone (cell phone for the Americans)
Its a pretty phone, its built like crap, its interface design is poorly thought out, the software for the PC is utter HELL to use when it does work and when it doesn’t, it causes untold amounts of problems.

I do believe that sony can deliver a good product, but, it needs to get its act together and actually do what the customer wants not what they want and they need to put effort into the whole package not just parts of it!

By: Az

Az — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:40:58 +0000

OK so PS3 had Blue-Rays in them and Sony obviously was pushing the side they were on… but the Blue-Ray Disc Association was founded by and I’m quoting wikipedia here “The “Blu-ray Disc Founder” was founded in May 2002 by nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung. Spearheaded by Sony”
I see quite a few big names in there.

By: Mr Butterscotch

Mr Butterscotch — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:16:14 +0000

Ben, I’m still hoping that Blu-Ray goes away (I’m still in favour of ’standard DVD’s) but I can’t see it happening. Then again, until Sony have got Blu-Ray DVD players being sold at Tesco etc then it’s not going to hit mass market.

By: UnGreat

UnGreat — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:05:07 +0000

I take it we can now expect Sony to introduce crazy DRM methods that will make the format almost unusable. They have a bit of a history of going that one step too far in trying to control who uses their stuff.

The people who brought you rootkits on CD’s now have control of the next disc based media, nice.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:35:10 +0000

Ah, I’m a HD-DVD backer.
I’m going to purchase all the HD-DVD’s I haven’t gotten yet (there already on sale now) for extremely low prices and then go back to normal DVD’s.

I will not support sony on the grounds of them constantly trying to bring in there own format and doing a shit job of it.

So, since I wont be buying a blu-ray player I’ll be looking at internet distribution and normal DVD’s

By: Mr Butterscotch

Mr Butterscotch — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:42:03 +0000

Of course, had the internet distribution systems not really taken hold (which I don’t think they would) then even more people would be annoyed. I think an early end to this whole debate for whatever reason can only be a good thing.

By: Consumers Didn’t Choose Blu-ray to Win

Consumers Didn’t Choose Blu-ray to Win — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:02:12 +0000

[...] Michael Giltz wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptOver on GadgeTell there is a great post about the format wars, and how the winner, Blu-ray, came out on top, not from the consumer side, but instead from the industry side. According to an analyst at ABI research the end of the format … [...]