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3 March 2008

Consequences of HD-DVD losing to Blu-Ray

Bluray vs HDDVDToshiba’s announcement that they would stop the development of HD-DVD discs and players signalled the end of the high definition optical disc format war, and handed victory to the Sony consortium.

However with the issue of Blu-Ray’s reliability with PCs still at large, don’t expect Blu-Ray to become de facto; don’t even expect this particular war to be hugely significant.

The Gadget Monkey tells me that this is just a blip – that the high definition optical disc format war is in fact just a phoney war, a standard to run parallel to standard DVD for only a few years to come.

Such is the slow take-up of High Def television and broadcast across Europe and the USA, despite the Sony propaganda, that the winner of the high def optical disc format war was never going to be winning anything more than a bit of money that was lost out on when DVD became the prevailing format.

Flash Ram is mere months away from being a viable alternative, is smaller, lighter and more versatile. A lot of money has been spent developing 5 inch discs in a world where portable media players continue to sell well with screens that are - at best - 5 inch.

So don’t get too attached to that Blu-Ray player.

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