Well a victor has been declared in the battle of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray. Toshiba screamed uncle, and announced it will no longer be producing movie titles in HD-DVD. This is both good and bad.
The Good:
I was rooting Blu-ray on for this one, for a couple reasons. One, I just like Sony. I own a Playstation 3 (PS3) which means I already own a Blu-ray player. I really didn’t want to have to go buy a separate HD-DVD player for movies when I already had a Blu-Ray player built in my Playstation. In fact I still have yet to buy any titles because I was afraid of buying loads of Blu-Ray titles only to discover HD-DVD to be the victor.
However another reason I was hoping Blu-ray would win the war is sheer capacity. Blu-Ray offers 50Gigs of data vs. HD-DVD’s 30gigs. Thats an extra 20Gigs.
Whats this mean? Higher quality video and more of it. And the kewl thing is this. Apparently TDK just announced a prototype Blu-ray Disc with a capacity of 200GB.
Next step is to locate myself a Blu-Ray Writer for my Mac =)
The Bad:
This is the part you should pay attention to as I guarantee LOTS of retailers out there will be offering HD-DVD players CHEAP! The catch? you don’t what them, I know a lot of people are going “Look a High Definition player for under $100″ but remember you’re only going to find titles already produced and released on HD-DVD no more titles will be released on HD-DVD.
What are your thoughts on the winner of the High Definition wars?
XBOX 360 cut there HD player down from 130 to 50 bucks. If I had a HDTV, I would pick up it up and a handful of titles. Its not like the movies are gonna be any different. There is a bunch of good titles out, and with the new war won, are gonna be super cheap. Movie is a movie right? HD or Blu-Ray, they both are high quality on HDTV.