This is some great news to all the hi def owners that have bought blu ray! now we will see releases of Batman begins and The Dark Knight! the war can't last much longer, with sales of blu rays selling more than the competition in different parts of the world and blockbuster only renting blu ray in it's stores.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008...s-blu-ray_N.htm

Time to buy blu ray.

Not yet... Don't let articles like this fool you yet Blu Ray already lost and so did HD DVD.

Like the VHS/Beta wars the pr0n industry will decide the victor here. The victor here is digital downloads, P2P started a revolution and so did VoD and while studios now will release movies onto these disks it is only a matter of time before they go all digital.

For the short term regarding both formats the outcome is still yet unclear, both have signed with major studios and continue to do so. It is also deceiving to say that Blu Ray sells more it works both ways. HD DVD player sales have been steadily increasing due to their pricing in fact in the last part of 07 actually began to overtake Blu Ray player sales. While more Blu Ray discs are sold then HD DVD the winner will be the one who has their players in every home possible not disks sold.

Pricing plays a huge factor for consumers and who ever is the cheapest will win.

actually blu ray players in other countries are outselling HD DVD. Once people get there HD players and then they'll be kicking themselves when they realize they won't be able to see the movies they really want. I've talked to some people who think they can buy a regular HD player and still be able to watch Pirates of the carribean or spiderman and i have to tell them that isn't the case. Plus in europe Blu ray players are selling better than HD same in australia. That whole thing with porn only worked in the 80s when there weren't other ways to get it. Now you can just download porn when you want. So saying something like porn will help the winner is lame because there are a ton of ways to get it not like in the early 80s. I say if you have the money then buy one. You'll be happy with the great sound and picture. I think atheist god works for microsoft going on about digital downloads. Who wants to watch a movie sitting at their computer anyways? Microsoft is the only one worrying about digital downloads.

Companies are actually making player that can play both Blu Ray and HD DVD due to the divide amongst the 2. You think people who own a Blu Ray player will be able to watch movie that come out from Dreamworks or movies like say The Bourne Trilogy? No which is why people wil ultimately opt for a stand alone player that plays both and then in a few years after the hype is gone everything simply goes digital.

No digital downloading does not mean sitting at your computer although you could if you want. When I say digital downloads I mean like a box on your TV similar to a satellite receiver that doubles as both a tv channel receiver and contains a PVR system and big ol hard drive to store things on.

In Regina Saskatchewan, Sasktel Already offers a VoD service which you can download from for free and record if you wish.

As for your MS remark no I don't and actually MS is pushing HD DVD since they helped development.

I predict the same thing happening with movies and tv that is now happening with music, which is of course digital.

and it's awesome

Ok I know what you're talking about now we have that here where you can record stuff off tv onto your cable box. At first I thought you were talking abou the internet or something sorry. I still think hi def discs are the way to go, so we'll have to agree to disagree. It's still better to have a hard copy of something then have it sitting on a hard drive or something.

We have HD DVD system in our house so i know the pros and consbut i would like to try Blu ray

Perhaps there will be a way to keep a hard copy via external drive or something good for like a terrabyte. You can buy more drives etc...

Fact is Discs are expensive and why do that when you don't have to. It is not only more convenient but cheaper and most people tend to go the cheaper route then not.

Heh. Heh.

I guess you just have to wait and see... I'm under NDA so I can't tell ya LOL