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Shino
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 Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: Toshiba halts HDDVD after Netflix/BestBuy/Walmart go Blu-Ray |
Another nail in the coffin:
| Blu-ray.com wrote: | Blu-ray news
Netflix Goes Blu-ray Exclusive
Posted February 11, 2008 by Josh
Blu-ray Disc The popular online video rental service Netflix has announced that they have decided to support Blu-ray exclusively for high definition movie rentals. Pointing to the Warner Brothers exclusivity announcement as the main reason for the shift, Netflix will no longer purchase movies in the rival HD DVD format, and once the life cycle for those discs has ended, they will no longer stock the format for rent.
Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix commented, "The prolonged period of competition between two formats has prevented clear communication to the consumer regarding the richness of the high-def experience versus standard definition. We are now at the point where the industry can pursue the migration to a single format, bring clarity to the consumer and accelerate the adoption of high-def. Going forward, we expect that all of the studios will publish in the Blu-ray format and that the price points of high-def DVD players will come down significantly."
While only a small percentage of Netflix users rent high definition movies, the majority of those who do take advantage of the services are renting Blu-ray. They expect that the shift to a single format will ultimately allow Netflix to provide a better service to those high definition customers. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
I really can't help wondering what impact, if any, PS3 had upon the popularity of BluRay over HD. I feel like going in, HD-DVD would've had the name recognition in seeming logical to follow HD-TV, so something must've pushed people (and consequently the studios) to BluRay. Was this PS3? |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
Or you can take into account Blu-Ray can hold much more information and hence the compression isn't as great so the picture and sound is in fact better. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: |
| GAAZ wrote: | | Or you can take into account Blu-Ray can hold much more information and hence the compression isn't as great so the picture and sound is in fact better. |
That's pretty much it.
Uncompressed sound and everything was 1080p, where as the HDDVD players started out 1080i only and the 1080p ones were about twice the price. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: |
And yet Transformers on HD won for best audio while it didn't even have an HD audio track. God, I love this industry. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
Well, Transformers was a crappy movie and the academy loves crappy movies. Or decent movies that promote stereotypes but in a different light. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: |
Best Buy joins in...
| Quote: | Best buy to recommend Sony's Blu-ray as digital format choice
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- Best Buy Co. (NYSE:BBY) said beginning in early March it will prominently showcase Sony (NYSE:SNE) Corp.'s Blu-ray DVD hardware and software products in its retail and online channels in the United States.
'Best Buy will recommend Blu-ray as the preferred format,' said Brian Dunn, Best Buy's president and chief operating officer, in a statement. |
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22937827.htm |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
All my netflix have been coming blu-ray if the option is there and its fantabulous =D |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: |
In the Academy's defense, they aren't the ones who give awards to DVD releases. It was a third party who I will have to find a reference for.
We guessed that Best Buy was going Blu Ray when the HD-DVD players dropped half price, then this past week we started selling the 360 HD drive for $10 less than Microsoft posted. I was also told that the New York Times wrote an article recently that Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks were jumping ship, but it has yet to be run if it was written.
I kind of feel bad for Toshiba, but they deffinately lost this one. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: |
Unfortunately thats the nature of the beast. Its a part of the risk you take in this type of business. |
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