actualy from a production point of view (my line of work) HD DVD (as a format and as a delivery option) did nothing to accelerate my delivery of HD content.
Those wanting to author HD DVD couldnt, not only for the lack of burners, bu for the lack of actual authoring tools. Fair enough Pinnacle Studio and Ulead could create 3x DVD's however these are not professional applications and far from being "standard" so the risk of incompatibility is real.
At th ened of the day, its not Sony people shoudl be afraid of, its the retialers becuase its these guys who dictate the price of movies.
Moving away from movie piracy, the fact of the matter is that BD is one means of delivering HD content in optical format. HD DVD, despite sharing the same codecs and similar bitrates, didnt have the backing of production houses which took HD onboard.
For most of the houses, it was a natural progressin, for others, it was a means to enhance profit.
Everyone is sittign there badmouthign Sony, but i shoudl point out that EVERY dvd you have ever seen carried over 1500 patents.
Of those Sony own more than half of.
In addition, Sony own over 2000 patents for MPG encoding alone. So you can thank SOny what you see on DVD today...
Personally, i have nothign against sony. I do have a gripe to pick about BD prices, but thats not their fault.
In addition, the PS3 is a pretty decent upscaler, and those with DVD collections dont have to worry about their collections becomign obsolete because these scalers come VERY close to the real deal.
Like i said, people can bitch and moan al they like but its not goign to change the fact that most of waht you see today, be it DVD, free to air, or HD, is because of them |