Toshiba and Sony make no Progress on Blu-Ray and HD DVD Unif

[BJ_M]

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper quotes a Toshiba Exec saying that the unification process of Sony's Blu-Ray and Toshiba's HD DVD is 'difficult'.

Apparently Toshiba would make concessions if Sony can proof their next-generation DVD format is better. Toshiba says so far Sony could not convince them. Hollywood studios might have to get involved to settle the issue. Lets hope for the best.

[Memo_182]

Let Hollywood handle it? The unimaginative tyrancial empire that is hollywood will only go for what benefits them the most, which from what I have read will be probably be HD-DVD because of the copy protection (not that it would actually prevent people from copying from HDDVD). I'm sure the MPAA and Hollywood will try to do the whatever possible to protect the contents of the disc (no matter how futile), which leads me to come to the conclusion of my previous statement.

One of the main issues I have read about the whole Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD is the loss of features, not quality. I'm not here to say which one is best, but from what I understand from HD-DVD is that we won't have interactive menus or extras because all the space will be dedicated towards the movie. Hey that's cool for some, I'm willing to wager that the same people who like to reauthor DVD9 to DVD5 and keep only the movie are the same people who will like HD-DVD for it's lack of features and dedication to movie. On the ohter hand there are others who like to keep the extras, like trailers, games, movie facts, and actor bios who will probably go for the Blu-Ray with it's increased data storage for those extras and structure efficiency.

But stil, even if the Blu-Ray standard already considers all those extra features, and benefits, and is supposedly ready for personal recording from the get go (not like how DVD+/-R(W) started), it probably won't survive if we leave it up to Hollywood, because they'll try to push HD-DVD to protect their content as much as possible. Again I'm not necessarily saying that Blu-Ray is better I'm just saying that Hollywood is going to try to look out for themselves as much as possible, regardless if HD-DVD does have a new 45g size or develops features other than the better copy-right protection from the HD-DVD inherit from Toshiba. Sure they'll say those were some of the deciding factors in choosing, but I'd like to think we really know why.

Again this is from what I understand from the new standard debate, so anyone feel free to correct me if they feel I'm wrong.

[RottenFoxBreath]

sony will lose again,if toshiba go ahead on there own,cheaper to make,and well,i could imagine that sony dont want another betamax on there hands.
strange tho,that the ps3 is striving ahead with blu-ray support,and isnt compatible with toshibas format,accordingto the specs of the ps3.

[SilverBlade]

sony will lose again,if toshiba go ahead on there own,cheaper to make,and well,i could imagine that sony dont want another betamax on there hands.
strange tho,that the ps3 is striving ahead with blu-ray support,and isnt compatible with toshibas format,accordingto the specs of the ps3.

Another betamax...doesn't minidisc ring a bell??

Anyways, I for one will support which ever is cheapest to get, and whichever format produces a burner/blank discs the cheapest.