[Flipside]

Not to mention that Europe will be seeing the XBox360 long before the PS3 comes out here. That, in itself, will mean that Sony face an uphill battle against a pre-established competitor.

While Blue-Ray seems to have the better range of storage and usage, I fear that it could be in for a pretty rough time. Personally, I'm no big fan of Sony's marketting practice, but then Phillips, who were involved the CD-Rom, were far from angels themselves.

If it were a question of opinion of the companies, I'd be behind HD, if it were a question of the most sensible media to use, I'd be behind Blu-Ray.

[eagleclaw]

 What they should do. In there second generation, is make the player capable to play both. HD and Blu-ray. And call it Blu-HD.

[spartan_0214]

Heh.. What you're saying then is that just like Betamax, Sony's attempt at pushing a new format out to the public will fail yet again.

yep

Maybe they'll learn this time that the public DOES know what's possible, when given an alternative.

nope

[Nix]

Wow.. Necro-monger strikes again...

Anyways, that's not going to happen with the combination of the two formats.  Both formats were created and copyrighted in competition with each other.  Supposedly, this should foster a competitive situation in the market, but it will cause too much confusion to the typical everyday user, and even some of the tech-geeks who want 1080p resolution just cause it's the newest buzzword flying around.  What will more likely happen is one format dropping altogether, and the other one reigning king.  The only way to get Sony to put HD-DVD tech into thier products is to buy out the HD-DVD spec.  Either that, or they'd buy it and shelve it, like Creative did with Aureal A3D tech/nvidia and 3dFX... 

[Shadow0000]

What they should do. In there second generation, is make the player capable to play both. HD and Blu-ray.

Already done in the 1st generation, as announced in October 18:

http://www.cepro.com/news/editorial/16136.html

NEC is developing a chip that is capable of reading both formats:

http://news.com.com/NEC+unveils+chip+to+bridge+Blu-rayHD+DVD+divide/2100-1041_3-6124799.html

These companies are trying success by covering all of the market and for popular demmand, I hope they don't go insane about pricing their products...

[spartan_0214]

Wow.. Necro-monger strikes again...

Anyways, that's not going to happen with the combination of the two formats.  Both formats were created and copyrighted in competition with each other.  Supposedly, this should foster a competitive situation in the market, but it will cause too much confusion to the typical everyday user, and even some of the tech-geeks who want 1080p resolution just cause it's the newest buzzword flying around.  What will more likely happen is one format dropping altogether, and the other one reigning king.  The only way to get Sony to put HD-DVD tech into thier products is to buy out the HD-DVD spec.  Either that, or they'd buy it and shelve it, like Creative did with Aureal A3D tech/nvidia and 3dFX... 

me?

[brozozo]

No. Bill. Haven't you met him? Nice guy.

[Nix]

You have that title for a reason man.....

So does this mean NEC might be getting into legal hot-water with the two sides?  It'd be nice to see a laser read and write all these formats.  I'll be impressed when I see a drive that will do everything in one, Writes to CDR-RW, DVDR-RW-DL and BR+HD.  More than likely we'll see CD/DVD drives stay the way they are and the High-Def drives might be drives of thier own.  For a while, until some genuine genius figures out how to pack all of those instructions into a controller, and a laser so refined it can do all of those formats. 

[Shadow0000]

NEC doesn't seems to limit their developement by standars, they used to develop the NEC PC-9800 series, basically a PC with a 8086 CPU that wasn't compatible with IBM PC standard, even so it managed to be the mainstream PC in Japan.

I would be more afraid by the fact that only Japan could be seen this kind of technology, while the rest of the world would be maintained in an eternal commercial format war with the only purpose of making even more profits.

[Knight Templar]

lolblu-raylol