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16.2.2008 | 12:24
Já HD DVD er DAUTT. R.I.P
Hérna sjáið þið hvað tveir Nerda bloggarar í henni Ameríku segja um HD DVD
HI-DEF FORMAT WAR OVER! Wal-Mart &
Sam's Club Join Best Buy & Netflix In Choosing Blu-Ray; Goodbye HD-DVD...
It's now official. Wal-Mart announced today that its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores and internet websites will move forward this year with just one hi-def movie and hardware format: Blu-ray. The change will take place quickly as the retailer phases out HD-DVD product and reorganizes shelf space by June. "We've listened to our customers, who are showing a clear preference toward Blu-ray products and movies with their purchases," said Gary Severson, senior vice president of Home Entertainment for Wal-Mart, U.S. Wal-Mart will continue to sell through remaining HD DVD product, but in less than 30 days customers will see a more predominant move toward Blu-ray in stores, clubs and online. As the nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart is a hugely dominant force in selling entertainment product; how ironic that this past christmas the Arkansas behemoth sold all those super-cheap $99 Toshiba HD-DVD players only to render them virtually obsolete just months later. Warner's recent decision to choose the Blu-ray format sealed the deal in the format war because now four of the six major movie studios are making their high-def DVD titles only in the Sony-developed Blu-ray format.
Wal-Mart's decision follows similar announcements by Best Buy and Netflix. This week, Best Buy Co said that, beginning in early March, it will prominently showcase Blu-ray hardware and software products in its retail and online outlets in the United States. The company noted that it will continue to carry an assortment of HD-DVD products for customers who desire to purchase these products. But Brian Dunn, Best Buys president/COO, explained: Best Buy has always believed that the customer will benefit from a widely-accepted single format that would offer advantages such as product compatibility and expanded content choices. Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products.
As for Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service, it decided this week to move toward stocking high-def DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray format. Netflix said that as of now it will purchase only Blu-ray discs and will phase out HD-DVD by year's end. Since the first hi-def DVDs came on the market in early 2006, Netflix has stocked both formats. "The prolonged period of competition between two formats has prevented clear communication to the consumer regarding the richness of the high-def experience versus standard definition," said Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix. "We're now at the point where the industry can pursue the migration to a single format, bring clarity to
the consumer and accelerate the adoption of high-def. Going forward, we expect that all of the studios will publish in the Blu-ray format and that the price points of high-def DVD players will come down significantly. These factors could well lead to another decade of
disc-based movie watching as the consumer's preferred means."
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HD DVD fans, we hate to do this to you, but it's time we called it. HD DVD is now officially on Engadget deathwatch. We haven't put anything important on deathwatch since TiVo in 2005 (which, as you may recall, still stands); but just as then, we have to step back from our personal preferences and investments in media and gear, ignore the rumors and hearsay, and take a close look at where things stand. We don't need Michael Bay to tell us the writing's on the wall.
So far this battle's been decided primarily by two factors: studio support and ubiquity of content. It's clear Sony's camp couldn't even come close to trumping Toshiba in hardware price war that's ensued over the past couple of years. But as it turns out, consumers that just spent thousands on a new HDTV weren't too concerned with a couple hundred dollars between players, and despite whatever users price won HD DVD, the PS3 Blu-ray trojan kept the competition at bay. Meanwhile, most consumers were too smart and too cautious to buy early in a format war. Most have simply waited this thing out, and while Warner's announcement to go exclusively Blu was obviously huge, it was only indicative of a trend -- it didn't set it.
If you look at the timeline, even before Warner announced its intentions to go Blu-ray exclusive HD DVD's studio base was already shrunken from its heyday, leaving it with fewer titles both in number and sales. Warner was just another push in the direction things were already headed -- the numbers already consistently showed Blu was ahead in media and install base, which has only become far more exaggerated in the last couple of months now that Blu amassed some 70% of studio-released titles.
But if you ask us, it's the ubiquity of content that sealed the deal. It wasn't until Blockbuster
So far this battle's been decided primarily by two factors: studio support and ubiquity of content. It's clear Sony's camp couldn't even come close to trumping Toshiba in hardware price war that's ensued over the past couple of years. But as it turns out, consumers that just spent thousands on a new HDTV weren't too concerned with a couple hundred dollars between players, and despite whatever users price won HD DVD, the PS3 Blu-ray trojan kept the competition at bay. Meanwhile, most consumers were too smart and too cautious to buy early in a format war. Most have simply waited this thing out, and while Warner's announcement to go exclusively Blu was obviously huge, it was only indicative of a trend -- it didn't set it.
If you look at the timeline, even before Warner announced its intentions to go Blu-ray exclusive HD DVD's studio base was already shrunken from its heyday, leaving it with fewer titles both in number and sales. Warner was just another push in the direction things were already headed -- the numbers already consistently showed Blu was ahead in media and install base, which has only become far more exaggerated in the last couple of months now that Blu amassed some 70% of studio-released titles.
But if you ask us, it's the ubiquity of content that sealed the deal. It wasn't until Blockbuster
and later Netflix -- two of the three most widely used disc rental businesses in the US -- went Blu-ray exclusively that we knew HD DVD wasn't long for this world.
So here's the deal, Toshiba. As much as we hate putting any worthy technology on deathwatch, for the sake of the greater good we hope you guys just roll over and cut your losses so we can all move on. But if you really want off this deathwatch, you're not only going to have to retain Paramount (which owns Dreamworks) and Universal, you also need to win at least a few back from Blu (Warner and Disney would be a great start), and get hardware in consumers' hands, even if it means practically giving it away. It's not going to be easy -- hell, we think it's actually pretty hopeless -- but hey, that's why you're on deathwatch, innit?
P.S. -Special for this occasion, we've also brought our Blu-ray vs HD DVD: State of the Division charts up to date and added a few new tables.+
So here's the deal, Toshiba. As much as we hate putting any worthy technology on deathwatch, for the sake of the greater good we hope you guys just roll over and cut your losses so we can all move on. But if you really want off this deathwatch, you're not only going to have to retain Paramount (which owns Dreamworks) and Universal, you also need to win at least a few back from Blu (Warner and Disney would be a great start), and get hardware in consumers' hands, even if it means practically giving it away. It's not going to be easy -- hell, we think it's actually pretty hopeless -- but hey, that's why you're on deathwatch, innit?
P.S. -Special for this occasion, we've also brought our Blu-ray vs HD DVD: State of the Division charts up to date and added a few new tables.+
Nýjasta nýtt hérna .......
Japan's NHK has followed up The Hollywood Reporter's earlier indications Toshiba was ready to dump its money-losing HD DVD business, with news that the company is prepared to cease manufacturing software and hardware, at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. This caps the worst week ever for red, when HD DVD was dumped by Netflix and Wal-mart, pushed to the background by Best Buy and put on -- an apparently incredibly short -- deathwatch right here. Toshiba is mum on the subject right now, but we hear there's plenty of cheap players and movies in a dumpster around back of the HQ.
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Þetta er samt það versta sem gæti gerst. Blue ray er afurð Sony eins og flestir vita og eru þeir frægir fyrir það að, setja allskonar copy varnir á dót sem þeir gefa út, sem gerir þeim sem vilja gera backup af gögnum sem þeir eiga mjög erfitt fyrir t.d. vinur minn keypti sér Mp3 spilara frá sony, hann setti á hann Mp3 safnið sitt nema það þurfti að nota sérstakt forrit sem fylgir Sony spilaranum til þess að hægt væri að setja inn tónlistina, það er svo sem ekki frásögufærandi, væri það ekki fyrir að þetta forrit breytir Mp3 skránum í annað format sem setur lögin í grúppur þ.e.a.s. mörg lög fara í sömu skránna. Nema hvað, harði diskurinn hjá honum hrundi og allt Mp3 safnið hans eyðilagðist. Hann var því nokkuð vongóður þegar hann mundi eftir því að hann hefði látið safnið sitt á Sony Mp3 spilararann sinn og ætlaði því að ná tónlistinni af með því að tengja við aðra tölvu, en nei, ekki hægt, þetta var ekki upprunalega tölvan sem Mp3 safnið var tekið út af og til þess að geta náð Mp3 safninu af þá hefði hann þurft að setja á netið digital kóða (sem hann hefði átt að láta strax og hann setti safnið á spilarann á sínum tíma) sem sagði að þetta væri safnið sitt og allt væri löglegt og þá kannski hefði hann fengið leyfi til að sækja tónlistina af Mp3 spilaranum, það eina sem honum var boðið upp á var að stroka allt út af spilaranum svo hægt væri að setja eitthvað inn á hann eða hlusta á safnið sitt í spilaranum. Þetta finnst mér vera dæmigerð frekja í Sony og þvílíkur yfirgangur í því að loka á allt sem heitir öryggisafritun og hver man ekki eftir því þegar þeir bjuggu til "vírusinn" sem meinaði fólki frá því að spila uppáhalds tónlistardiskinn sinn í tölvunni!
Blue ray er auk þess með regional coding (með þessu þá er ekki hægt að spila diska sem hafa verið keyptir t.d. í Ameríku hérna á íslandi (evrópu)) sem ætlaði að gera alla brjálaða þegar DVD var að koma fyrst á sínum tíma og er enn, nema núna eru DVD spilarar regional coding fríir. Blue ray er jafnframt miklu dýrara snið heldur en HD-DVD þ.e.a.s. það kostar meira fyrir framleiðandan að gefa út einn Blue ray heldur en HD-DVD og því verður þetta dýrara fyrir neytandan því ekki ætlar framleiðandinn að tapa á því að þurfa að borga meira til Sony, vitaskuld á neytandinn að borga fyrir það! Blue ray er úlfurinn í sauðsgærunni svo vægt sé til orða tekið!!! En vissulega er Blue ray með meira pláss en það er nánast það eina sem Blue ray bíður upp á, það eru fleyrir mínusar en plúsar við þetta snið. HD-DVD er reginal free (sem er stór plús), tekur að vísu minna en Blue ray (40% minna), en er með betri interactive möguleika, ódýrari á flesta vegu (spilarar, framleiðslan á þeim og s.frv.), er ekki með eins mikla stæla hvað varðar að búa til öryggisafrit og s.frv.
Því finnst mér það vera sorgar dagur ef HD-DVD sýnir hvíta flaggið!
Valli (IP-tala skráð) 16.2.2008 kl. 13:03
Betmax var betra þrátt fyrir að vera Sony , en það vann ekki , þannig að eins og þú veist er ekki alltaf betri tæknin sem vinnur.
Þetta er annars hörku gott comment hjá þér Valli og margt rétt , en þetta þurfti að gerast þar að segja önnur tæknin að vinna þar sem við notendur stóðum og horfðum á en keyptum hvorugt 18% niður salan á DVD í US í fyrra fólk hætti að kaupa DVD og vildi bíða eftir hvor tæknin vinnur ekki eiga gott HD DVD safn og spilara og svo engar nýjar myndir Glatað.
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Sony kanski bætir um betur hver veit ?
Ómar Ingi, 16.2.2008 kl. 13:16
Skiptir engu máli, löngu búið að hakka þetta sjá: http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html Með AnyDVD + CloneDVD frá sama fyrirtæki tekurðu hvaða DVD disk sem er, tekur út allar varnir, svæðislæsingar, auglýsinga ruslið og annað rusl sem fylgir. Þú býrð til disk eins og þú vilt hafa hann. T.d. disk sem byrjar einfaldlega að spila myndina um leið og honum er stungið í án þess að segja þér að þú megir ekki stela myndinni og þú sleppur við að fara í gegnum endalausa menu-a og fram hjá korteri af auglýsingum. Átt síðan bara orginalin á góðum stað sem afrit. Snilldar forrit.
Einar Steinsson, 17.2.2008 kl. 22:51
Flott innlegg hjá Valla. Einar, málið er að BlueRy er með mikið sterkari vörn en annað sem komið hefur á markað. Það verður ekki auðvelt að hakka það.
Villi Asgeirsson, 18.2.2008 kl. 12:12
Eins og ég sagði það er búið að hakka Blue-Ray.
Einar Steinsson, 24.2.2008 kl. 11:57
Það er nú reynslan í gegnum árin að ef einhver segir að það sé EKKI hægt að hakka eitthvað þá er það er það áskorun á alla bestu hakkarana og bara tímaspursmál hvenr og hver hakkar dæmið.
Er ekki búið að hakka allt sem vert hefur verið að hakka ??
Ómar Ingi, 24.2.2008 kl. 13:05
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