Studio support: This doesn't seem as much of an advantage for blu-ray as their supports would have me believe. It seems to me that the studios are like consumers, they're fence sitting till there's a clear format leader. The possibility of studios switching support is there, a lot are not exclusive.
PS3: If PS3's launch were in the millions of units, I would consider it a threat as far as the format war was concerned. The blu-ray/hddvd war is different than in the time of DVD and the PS2. People are putting too much stock on the PS3 as the ace for the blu-ray side. Until you can walk into any electronics retailer and purchase a PS3, PS3 is a non-issue in the war, it's just a niche product. By the time that happens, what's not to say that hddvd and blu-ray standalone players will not be cheaper wiping out the "price" factor from the PS3 as player even further.
Price: currently, getting into blu-ray costs 2x what it is to get into hddvd. Yes, blu-ray costs will come down, but unless hddvd remains static (and I doubt it will) there's no reason to believe that hddvd will not become even cheaper. Lets not forget that it's the technology that makes blu-ray more expensive.
Whichever format drops below $250 to get in the door will have my vote, as well as numerous others I would imagine. When DVD first came out, they were as expensive as blu-ray is today. I didn't jump on the bandwagon till the players were $300.
Porn Industry: I hear this a lot and although I wasn't around during the vhs/betamax war, the world isn't what it was then. You can get porn in more than one format (Internet delivery as a huge source).
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Studio support: This doesn't seem as much of an advantage for blu-ray as their supports would have me believe. It seems to me that the studios are like consumers, they're fence sitting till there's a clear format leader. The possibility of studios switching support is there, a lot are not exclusive.
PS3: If PS3's launch were in the millions of units, I would consider it a threat as far as the format war was concerned. The blu-ray/hddvd war is different than in the time of DVD and the PS2. People are putting too much stock on the PS3 as the ace for the blu-ray side. Until you can walk into any electronics retailer and purchase a PS3, PS3 is a non-issue in the war, it's just a niche product. By the time that happens, what's not to say that hddvd and blu-ray standalone players will not be cheaper wiping out the "price" factor from the PS3 as player even further.
Price: currently, getting into blu-ray costs 2x what it is to get into hddvd. Yes, blu-ray costs will come down, but unless hddvd remains static (and I doubt it will) there's no reason to believe that hddvd will not become even cheaper. Lets not forget that it's the technology that makes blu-ray more expensive.
Whichever format drops below $250 to get in the door will have my vote, as well as numerous others I would imagine. When DVD first came out, they were as expensive as blu-ray is today. I didn't jump on the bandwagon till the players were $300.
Porn Industry: I hear this a lot and although I wasn't around during the vhs/betamax war, the world isn't what it was then. You can get porn in more than one format (Internet delivery as a huge source).