In unsurprising news, Sony has dismissed claims that HD DVD is winning the format war, with senior Japanese executives claiming that Blu-ray player shipments in the US alone will increase sevenfold this year, over 2006 figures. They expect to see 600,000 Blu-ray players hit Stateside in 2007.
Akira Shimazu, Senior General Manager of Sony's Blu-ray Strategy Group, said that the company is well prepared to meet demand for the components required to make Blu-ray equipment. We've already reported that Sony's laser component production capacity has increased, after supply problems last year.
Speaking of these components, Shimazu noted, "Currently the bulk of these components are going into the PS3. This will change as demand for Blu Ray players grow and the price of players fall."
Sony's executives have echoed others who don't believe that porn will decide a winner in the format war, saying that, typically, porn is downloaded from the web rather than being bought on high definition discs.
Sony also believe that the number of films being released exclusively on Blu-ray will seal the deal when it comes to the dominance of their format.
And still they argue.
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ya and next there going to say that atlantis is 100% backing blu-ray and that sale's there are sky rocketing and that sony could be depet free when zeus from MT.OLYMPIANS adoptes blu-ray and help's market it to god's and blu-ray is capable of restoring youth to old people and by using it to reflect light you can blind your enemies and that the army is doing excperiment's with it for mind control. and just when you thought that the world was a better place.
Funny how what Sonny keeps proclaiming and what actually happes are so different, according to them they already won the war. But meanwhile HD DVD with 20 times less players out (compared to the PS3)then blu-ray are selling the same amount of movies.
Also funny how an owner such as myself who owns both format players favors the quality in the HD DVD player more...
hddvdnet, you're blatantly a hd-dvd fanboy to not see Blu-ray is clearly outselling hd-dvd in both disc and player sales, as well as rental. Don't pretend you're unbiased, own both format and prefer hd-dvd because it's "better quality". LOL, what a joke.
I have to agree with the last comment.
I mean the only (major) difference between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is the media on which the content is encoded. Both are read with a short wavelength laser and as such are technologically contemporary with one another.
The content on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is to all intents and purposes identical ie. digital (which for those who don't know or care is a series of ones and zeros)
So a MGEG 2 or 4 file on either is basically just ones and zeros, same for VC-1 wichever format you choose.
So the only real difference must surely be in the hardware used for playing back the media and how well it decodes the content and relays it to the display, not the format itsself.
In one respect however I see that Blu-Ray has the advantage due to the greater storage capacity. I can imagine at some time premium versions of movies etc may be made available, encoded at a high bit rate with mimimum compression. Something not possible on HD-DVD.
Perhaps if you are able to play both and are a fanboy (or fangirl) of one format over another, then I suspect there will be a tendency (maybe subconscious) to optimise your setup for your preferred format.