BD has always been in front by about 2 to 1 in sales, however, many studios were not too pleaes witht he fct that sony, whch is a competing studio in its own right, leads the push for BD. In turn, many publishing houses ended up goign to HD DVD and offered exlusive titles, such as King King, Transformers, Matrix trilogy, 300, Troy etc etc
These re big name movies locked into a format which services less than half teh HD market.
With the imminent kill off of PS2 and price drops for PS3, certain studios have now decided that BD isnt all that bad.. in fact, technically, it is superior to HD DVD as it allows for bitrates up to 35mbps, as opposed to HD DVD 25mbps
In any case, some studios (as linked above) are now jumping ship to BD and thankfully we'll be seeing many more titles coming this way soon.
Sadly for Toshiba, HD DVD will probably end up being an optical archival format, but to be honest, with teh contracts already established, i dont see HD DVD dying for at least another 12 months. then again, it didnt even have an opportuinity to survive her in aus, as there wasnt much of a push for it to begin with... |