It has plenty of bad news lately for the HD DVD high def DVD format has been at war with the rival Blu-ray format. For example, sales have been Blu-ray disc sales of HD DVD since the beginning of year doubled. This has even for a number of titles that were released in both formats and that the HD DVD format has been relying on to special properties that arises, and that Blu-ray offers no support.
Both formats have amuch in common. Both are able to store much more data than conventional DVDs to discs that have about the same size. All these data can then be used to store an entire movie in full length in the highest HDTV resolution available on a single disc. The bonus features that come with the movies can also be stored on the disc. The Blu-ray format actually a much larger storage capacity by not less than twenty gigabytes per disc, HD DVD, but has much more comprehensive interactiveFeatures.
An important practical difference between the two formats is price. While the disks themselves cost about the same amount of HD-DVD player have typically costs about half of what Blu-ray player costs given the same properties. This makes the apparent success of Blu-ray format still more surprised.
These two incompatible formats have been trying to gain an edge on each other for quite a while, and there are a number of explanations for why Sony Blu-ray formathas done better than Toshiba HD DVD format. Firstly, there are more movie studios release their titles exclusively on Blu-ray than the studios that are totally dependent on HD-DVD. So far, Universal is the only studio released only on HD DVD, while publishing a number of studios their titles in both formats, and several rely exclusively on Blu-ray. As a result, there is a lot more titles on Blu-ray, which probably accounts for his leadership in sales.
AnotherMarketing strategy, which seems to have paid off, was also a Blu-ray drive in the latest version of the Sony Play Station video game platform. These Blu-ray drive makes the Play Station 3, a Blu-ray player in addition to being a video game platform. Many Play Station fans have this device for its video-gaming functions and use it now Blu-ray discs as well.
More recently, the Disney Blu-ray format has only announced that she's backis another nail in the coffin of HD-DVD drive through the release, making it a "Blu-ray Title Wave calls" the classic movies in the format. A large number of movies from Disney are expected to be published in 2008 and are likely to generate even more interest in the format. This step is not entirely without precedent. In fact, the key date of the release of Disney movie songs in the past was in the victory of the VHS video cassette format war of the instrumentalthe eighties and the adoption of DVD technology in the nineties. So there is a good chance that Disney's "Blu-ray Title Wave," which could contribute to a critical success on the part of the Blu-ray in the next year or so to do so.
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