HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: Battle of The Next Generation Storage Devices

What are the other two companies?? Sony and????

 

It's official.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_toshiba

 

Blu will be dead soon as well. Too expensive, limited choices and better alternatives....such as HD VOD, 16 GB flash drives, removable HD.

Do you know how long it would take to write 20-30 GB to a disc? 3-5 hours or more?

 

Blu-ray may or may not make it as a writable medium, but there is definitely still a market for discs of such size that already have their content on them. I know everyone says that hard drive space is cheap, and it is, but it my opinion, the majority of people don't know how to play material that is on their hard drive on their TV. Also, hard drive space isn't that cheap. HD quality movies take up a lot of room, especially when someone has a sizable music collection stored on the same drive.

 

errrrm looks like a hd-dvd fan lol ha ha u got stitched, should have bought blu-ray!!

and no as if someone is going to carry a removable hard drive around, to big!!, when one blu-ray disk holds 50 gb, one drop of the hard drive and its dead!

16 gb flash is too small, and soon the film market will kick off and they will be turning out blu-ray disks for a matter of pence! or cents! Whatever blu-ray will be making a scene soon!

 

Great points, plus $25 for 1 blank disc, $25 + for a movie, unless prices drop big time I have much better things to do with my money.

 

I think you guys are forgetting exactly how quickly the prices and capabilities of technology shift, not to mention the likely uses of Blu-Ray. No one is using Blu-Ray as a writable medium at the moment. Like you said, it's completely impractical in many ways. However, there is an increasing demand for HD content and an increasing proliferation of Blu-Ray players, not a small portion of which is due to booming PS3 sales. There will, for a significant period of time, be a market for removable media and that media will have to have high storage capacity in order to store the data that consumers are beginning to demand. That market is well served by Blu-Ray, and unless there is a radical change in the way that the majority of the public buys and views their media, that market will keep expanding.