Is the Battle Over

The battle that I am talking about is the format wars. HDDVD and Blu-ray are two different formats that is going to take the place of DVDs. If have not heard Blu-ray took a huge win when Warner Bros has signed a deal to go Exclusive with Sony's Blu-Ray. So knowing that Paramount is thinking of switching its allegiance to Sony. If that is the case then in the HDDVD will have only have Universal studios if Paramount leaves. Sony Bu-Ray already have Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lionsgate. I remember see that Sony camp has paid up to 500 million to get WB on board with the Blu-Ray format. Sony is smart even if they have to pay all the studio a large sum of cash to get them on to pick a their side. It will only be an investment cost for Sony because they will have a chance to win this format war and will start to sell their Blu-ray disc and players. So with this update I still going sit on the fence and wait but I am leaning towards Sony's Blu-ray. Now the Playstation 3 is starting look like a better investment. Because the Playstation 3 has a Blu-ray player in it.

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Format Wars

The Format Wars is still going strong. This is not surprising because both sides are still not backing down. The war is between Blu-ray and HD DVD. Major blow were taken by both sides. The HDDVD teamed up with Wal-mart to sell players for $98 for the Holiday season. This strike would have killed the Blu-ray camp but it was only temperate. Wal-mart was only selling them as a promo. But they do have $199 machine for sale but I think HDDVD has not hit the sweet price point that will beat Blu-ray.

Blu-ray has aggressively used the marketing department to get the word out on the new format. (If you went into any best buy you would have seen the Ads on all the HD TVS). Also on print, TV and all over the internet is where you can find Ads for the Blu-ray. Sony is the one back the Blu-ray. They have put a Blu-ray player in there Playstaion 3 game console.

So there is no clear winner yet and there will not be one for a while. I think it because both formats do not have all the content available as you would find in the regular DVD format. So I will still be sitting on the fence watch a war rages on.

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