http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080221/tc_nm/bluray_dc_2

We now have unity.

I have to say this again : HD-DVD, you will always have a place in this old pirate's heart. Yaaaaaar !

Your simple excuse of DRM that was defeated in a day was your best asset. You will be missed.

Once again, the consumer's rights are completely ignored and the format with the most DRM wins.

Adi

and absinthe is legal!

#6,

No. The format that was best for consumers lost. HD-DVD was less expensive to manufacture, both for the machines and the disks, more compatible with existing DVD formats (hence, the combo disks that were common from several studios), and less restrictive in DRM and regional encoding. It also had all of its features on day 1.

Blu-Ray may become a decent format, if they ever finish it, and if the prices ever come down.

For the time being, though, the consumer is the loser in this one, unless you're a PS3 fan, in which case having the HD-DVD studios come to you with Blu-Ray movies is a plus.

I just want to take this moment to say: WHO CARES! Haha.

I've decided when the war started to download my movies and games over the Internet and to share them through flash drives.

The real winner will be the Internet and solid state which are both cheap and fast and never turn into coasters.

Maybe one day if blu-ray players are $50-$99 and their movies are $5 or their burning drives cost $30 and discs cost 10 cents will I consider getting one. Until that day comes I'll avoid the securoms, DRMs, burn times, scratches, load times, coasters, firmwares, technical supports, and whatever else thats sickening.

Universal has already announced its intentions to go Blu:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Universal/Breaking:_Universa...

haha take that sony haters

don't you guys read the emails to report@techreport.com ?

Take that, Paramount and Universal!

Man, I can't wait to buy The Office Season 4 on Blu Ray and have ALL the episodes from that season be on ONE disc.

They better be on one disc!!

Castro and HD-DVD step down both on the same day.........

I had predicted this a very long time ago in another forum.

Blu-ray won the battle simply because the PS3 decided to bundle the blu-ray and made it mandatory.

If the 360 had done the same thing with HD-DVD, there would be an abundant amount of HD-DVD players out there and the outcome might have been the other way around.

I would say that about %5 percent of 360 owners also bought the HD-DVD add-on and that's being generous. I know of 8 people who owns a 360 and none of them bought the HD-DVD add-on.

Although if Microsoft would have bundled it with their consoles, the price would have been more steep and their sales would not have been as high as it stands now.

Now if only they could do something about that whole Iraq war thingy.

w00t!

Now the player prices can start falling :D

Did the format that was really better for consumer flexibility really win, though?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

Read that.

Besides, there is more than one company building players, I mean by your logic, DVD players should be expensive.

edit: meant to be a reply to #5

Stick a fork in it. "She's dead, Jim"

Thank god it is over.

The whole war was BS to begin with.