So Blu Ray is winning the HD platform war?

blk_diesel wrote on 1/5/2008, 8:12 PM

I hardly ever hear of any HD DVD products except X-Box 360 games. I guess I can invest in something Blu Ray now that it seems to be the VHS to Beta winner.

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blink3times wrote on 1/5/2008, 9:52 PM

Well, it's not over yet. I can't imagine Toshiba silently retreating into the night after they have taken things to this extent. My guess is that they will try and pull one more rabbit out of the hat. Admittedly though... it's going to have to be a massive rabbit.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/6/2008, 5:51 AM

It seems to be over for content creators at least. I was reading issue #99 of 3D World magazine where they reviewed the latest burners and the headline in bold under a picture of 4 Blu-ray burners read:

"FOR CONTENT CREATORS, THE FORMAT WARS SEEM TO BE OVER ALREADY: ONE COMBATANT HAS FAILED TO SHOW UP"

They are referring, of course, to the fact that despite being announced in January 2007, Toshiba's SD-HD903A HD-DVD writer has still failed to arrive on the market. There are simply no HD-DVD burners anywhere to be had. With the second generation of Blu-ray 4x burners already here and the 2x burners dropping in price below $400, I don't see how HD-DVD can recover.

~jr

blink3times wrote on 1/6/2008, 6:32 AM

This of course is true and I find it maddening as hell that every 4 months or so Toshiba has been unveiling a new burner that never seems to show up on the market.

But BD isn't a rose garden either. The hardware is sure there, but the software is somewhat lacking.... one is no good without the other. I think there is only (still) one sort of universal program that will do BD and that is Roxio.

I have SERIOUS questions as to why we are so lacking on the software side of things. It can't be that the software is hard to write, so is this a control issue from Sony??

Konrad wrote on 1/6/2008, 7:30 AM

Please Madison add BR authoring support with 9.0.

Apple Hardware "is" going BR and that means FCP will go BR.

megabit wrote on 1/6/2008, 7:33 AM

Madison being Sony, I'd expect them to add it in 8.0b.

blink3times wrote on 1/6/2008, 7:48 AM

Madison has been in dead stinking last place for bringing us into the hi def optical media arena.... something I'm totally shocked and disappointed with. Why the heck is Roxio the first one out of the gate with BD burning software? Why is Ulead the first one out of the gate with AVCHD-to-dvd abilities? It's totally embarrassing.