Blu Ray vs. HD DVD
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Being Region free is going to hurt any proposed media. with all the HDCP and HDMI integration in everything, the last thing the studios would want is for you to be able to share or copy your DVD.
As far as being "Proprietary to Sony" I am not sure if I agree. Sony may have lead the development of the technology in blu-ray, but you dont have to buy a sony player to play the discs. nor do you have to watch it on a sony tv. the studios may have to pay sony some of the profit, but i dont really care about that. Some may argue that it will drive the prices of movies up, but i would retort that DVD's were $40 when they first relesed and the consumer drove the prices down. People wont pay over $24.99 for a movie.
there will also be the previously viewed rack at blockbuster since they too have adobted Blu-ray for in-store rentals, however i have not seen HD-DVD there.
The reality is HD content is here to stay. With the broadcast format changing next year to no longer support SD signals, ppl will be forced to get new HD sets or invest in a signal down scaler (which makes no sense to me). So why would the studios continue producing SD-DVD much longer after that, or Consumer Electronic companies making antiquated players. There will be a shift in the next 5-10 years, and durring that time HD1440 will start to rear its ugly head and the large scale implementation of Video on Demand will show up.
This will most likely be the last time we will see a physical media used to distribute movies, the next step is broadband distribution. But that is 2020 stuff.
For my 2 cents i think the format wars are rediculous. there is no reason a Blu-laser cannot read an HD-DVD disc. the only thing preventing my PS3 from ready HD-DVD is a CODEC. HD-DVD works on the same principle as DVD, multi-platter discs working with a RED laser. its just that HD-DVD's have more platters in them so they can hold more data. These companies need to stop posturing and adopt a format...