Dismal PS3 Launch Forces Sony to Discard Blu Ray

[slappy1]

I never said they owned it. In fact, its hollywood who will ultimately decide what wins out. If no studios produce HD-DVD movies, guess what? HD-DVD will be the next Betamax in a New York minute.

3 layers of data is as far as I know impossible. They can have 2 layers per side. A Dual Sided, Dual Layer HD-DVD comes in at 60gb of data. The same BluRay disc comes in at 100gb of data.

If they could make a 3rd layer, then you'd also see that happening with BluRay discs as well; then we'd have 75gb BluRays, so no matter what HD-DVD is still trumped.

As well, Sony could never drop BluRay. Resistance, a launch title uses 16gb of data (originally used 22gbs, but the PAL cutscenes were removed and replaced with an NTSC -> converter to reduce burn times.)

Right there, a Launch PS3 title utilizes BluRay almost to its fullest extent. Resistance couldn't have worked on DVD, with its 9gb storage capacity.

What? Do you know what you're even talking about?

HD-DVD is currently 2 layer, the 3rd layer creates 50Gb and would be compatible with all HD-DVD Players. Three layers has been done (Fact), and is going to be implemented in some cases.

Blue-Ray has many layers, getting very close to the discs surface. Sony has tried adding more layers to Blue-Ray disc with little success.

Sony never mentions HD-DVD in their HD TV manuals, only Blue-Ray. Sony will only publish Sony movies and their affialates movies on Blue-Ray.

HD-DVD has plenty of movie studios on their side, you need to do some research. Great movies like Batman Begins, King Kong, Tomb Raider, and many others are already on HD-DVD. The LOTR trilogy will be comming to HD-DVD also.

Go Blow Sony.

[F9zDark]

What? Do you know what you're even talking about?

HD-DVD is currently 2 layer, the 3rd layer creates 50Gb and would be compatible with all HD-DVD Players. Three layers has been done (Fact), and is going to be implemented in some cases.

Blue-Ray has many layers, getting very close to the discs surface. Sony has tried adding more layers to Blue-Ray disc with little success.

Sony never mentions HD-DVD in their HD TV manuals, only Blue-Ray. Sony will only publish Sony movies and their affialates movies on Blue-Ray.

HD-DVD has plenty of movie studios on their side, you need to do some research. Great movies like Batman Begins, King Kong, Tomb Raider, and many others are already on HD-DVD. The LOTR trilogy will be comming to HD-DVD also.

Go Blow Sony.

First off, you know what you're talking about? Judging from how half of your response has nothing to do with the topic indicates that (the bit about Sony and HD-DVDs makes no sense, as I never said a damn thing about thats...).

BluRays have 2 layers, just like HD-DVDs. Where is your evidence that HD-DVDs can get 3 layers and BluRays can't?

As well the fact that you think Tomb Raider was a "great movie" immediately makes your points suspect. Nor does your "Go Blow Sony" quip lead any credence to your claims; in fact, it does quite the opposite, I didn't insult you, you have no business insulting me, and by doing so you just forfeited any intelligent ideas you may have contributed to this debate.

[muffinman]

little success with multiple layers on blue ray disks is bs. I believe they made a 10 layer one a few months back which holds 250gb double and triple layered disks are easy for them not hard.

[DCergo]

If anyone's been paying attention to the CES 2007 going on now, you'd see Toshiba announced a 3 layer HDDVD disc, which is absolutely no surprise, since the HDDVD spec calls for 3 layers, maximum. We've known about this for ages, now.

But people seem to think this trumps Blu-ray for some reason, and it does not. LAST year, at CES 2006, TDK announced a working quad layer Blu-ray disc, 100 gigs. If you look at the Blu-ray specifications, Blu-ray can hold 8 layers, 200 gigs. We probably won't see that for a long time, however.

As far as HDDVD having plenty of studios, they do, but it amounts to perhaps only around half of Hollywood. HDDVD lacks Fox/MGM/Disney/Touchstone/BuenaVista/Sony Pictures/Lionsgate, (Blu-ray exclusive) which amounts to 90% of Hollywood support.

The only studio exclusive to HDDVD is Universal, and the rumor is that the exclusivity is going to end quite soon.

At the CES, the BD exclusive studios reaffirmed their exclusivity and commitment to the Blu-ray format. Even some bold claims were made about it being game-over for HDDVD But, HDDVD is still doing quite well, for now. Universal holding out has helped them tremendously. They still have a major uphill battle with the PS3 essentially giving the studios 1.5 million Blu-ray players out right now.