Die already Blu-ray, die

from JoeUser Forums

Apologies to Sony Playstation 3 fan-boyz and galz, or to other Home Theatre Blu-Ray fans, but I wish that the Blu-ray standard would just die, die, die already.

Not that I like supporting Microsoft and other HD-DVD format backers any more than I like Sony but the thought that having bought the HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 was possibly a bad decision is just irritating.  Looking over the next few months of releases in both formats it seems that the Blu-ray folks are pumping out quite a few titles while the HD-DVD format lags behind in quantity.  Quality wise both are probably close, but quantity wise there's a noticable gap.

I wish Sony had given in and kept themselves from going off to create their own format to begin with.  The world didn't need two competiting HiDef DVD type standards.  One is most certainly sufficient but Sony deemed their own creation better and they are pushing to make it become the standard.  Personally, I hope it dies soon and winds up becoming a standard used for PlayStation video games and nothing else.  Let it get left behind already so that we do get one standard that everyone can get behind and support.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Completely self-serving desires I know, but I really do want *one* standard and I'd just as soon not have that standard come from Sony.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ah Sony, how soon you forget. Did you not learn anything from the Beta vs. VHS wars of the 1980"s?
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
So why do you want it to die?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

So why do you want it to die?

I'd like it (the Blu-ray format) to die so that we're left with a single standard that isn't under Sony's control, and which Sony won't profit from (except for the sales of their content in the HD-DVD format).

I'd like it to die so that there's no more confusion in the marketplace over which hi-definition next-generation DVD type format consumers should support and buy.  I'm tired of seeing messages in various places, or answering questions in various places, about which format player and discs people should buy.  One week the answer is that HD-DVD is winning.  The next week Blu-ray seems to be ahead.  A few weeks later there's another big movie release that comes out in HD-DVD and we're told again that HD-DVD is winning.

Enough of the format wars already.

UBoB wrote:

Ah Sony, how soon you forget. Did you not learn anything from the Beta vs. VHS wars of the 1980"s?

Exactly.  Sony has tried the Apple (Macintosh style) trick of creating a closed format that they maintain total control of in the past.  If they were more open with their standard, and more cooperative in the marketplace then others might have accepted and adopted their standard.  Instead they tried to control things too much and have done nothing but confuse the marketplace in the hopes of getting their standard pushed out to as many customers as possible.  I don't blame them for supporting a standard,  I blame them for supporting their own standard.

Sony, Apple, and a host of others are all about Digital Rights Management and that is, to be sure, what really underlies Sony's support of Blu-ray.  They feel it's the better mouse trap when it comes to locking down digital rights.  That could be true, but if it is, it's all the more reason to hate on the format and hope it dies quicker than the old DivX format that Circuit City tried to foist upon the marketplace in the early days of the DVD format.