Blu-ray or HD DVD?
Answers: In standard lamp of recent news, Bluray will almost indubitably win, but it's a good thought to get a dual player if you want to buy one in a minute. Look at LG's BH-100 or BH-200.
HD-DVD will most likely die, but not nonetheless. Universal and Paramount still have exclusive contracts to print merely HD-DVD. That's a lot of movies you'll miss if you carry a Bluray only player. No one is chitchat about the cost of opt out of their respective contracts publicly, but you can bet there's quite a bit of communicate going on in private.
Regarding mastermind's comment something like the HD-DVD folks "not knowing yet." Toshiba is a focal shareholder in Time Warner and one of their execs. sits on the TW board. I promise you, they know, regardless of what the press say.
Also, there is still concern that Sony/Samsung et al can produce product nifty enough contained by large ample quantities. Anyone wanting to print Bluray disks will own to totally revamp their factory. That's a problem that will ultimately be solved by throwing money at it, but it's a concern at the moment and will take time.
When near-blue lasers become commercially viable (would last at least possible 10,000 hours) Sony and Toshiba began developing systems for bringing 1080x1920 players to bazaar. Sony felt that providing maximum soundtrack space was most momentous. Toshiba thought that it was more central to be compatible with existing disk business equipment. Since they could not agree fundamentally, there be no chance of working together. Incidentally, Toshiba be in the Beta military camp with Sony contained by the VHS/Beta days so they have a history of working together.
I believe Time Warner (Warner Bros. Studios) made a intricate, but good decree. The risk is consumers won't adopt either format if they can't amount out what to buy. And if anything can be said about the two formats of lofty definition DVD, it's that the confusion level IS soaring.
I am about to buy a HD DVD player, because it is cheap as an put in on for my Xbox 360. However, I can tell you very soon that Blu-Ray will win.
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