Samsung Electronics announced over the weekend that the company plans to begin hardware support for HD-DVD. Samsung has previously been an exclusive supporter of the Blu-ray format of next-generation DVD. Despite Blu-ray's recent months of sales superiority in the USA over the rival HD-DVD format, Samsung aims to combat consumer confusion over the battling formats by offering a hardware solution that will play both. Currently, LG's BH1000 Super Multi Blu is the only dual-format hardware on the market.
Samsung is also not ruling out single format HD-DVD drives, and may begin marketing such a solution "whenever consumers demand it." As quoted by Reuters, Craig Kornblau, a longtime HD-DVD supporter and president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, greeted the news by stating, "[Samsung's announcement] is an acknowledgement of the tremendous value that HD-DVD brings to the early adopter of high-definition-packaged media."
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
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Very interesting, HD DVD top 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 since the weekend, It's funny how things sway so quickly. Format war over? I think not!
http://www.eproductwars.com...
I'm not talking about hd-blu discs. I'll only buy discs that have dvd on one side and hd or blu on the other. I have dvd players in my car on my laptops and just about everywhere else. I have one hd-dvd player. I am in no hurry to replace those and watching hd movies on a small screen is pointless, so I don't see dvd ever going away. The majority of hd-dvd movies I am getting now have dvd on one side and hd on the other. I know blu-ray can does this as well, but are they?
this is bad news for BLU-Ray
the longer HD DVD stays alive as we can see by this movoe
the more support it will get
HD-DVD buyers seem to have started the celebration of their 1st aniversary of existence by buying every amazon HD-DVD they can muster the troops to buy.HD-DVD will have been in the lead for 1 day in all categories.In order to be consistently equal to BD sales HDDVD would have to do half of what they did sales wise on April 15th every day for the next 3 months in a row.I really feel sorry for them ,in another day HDDVD WILL be back to where they were April 14th
http://www.avsforum.com/avs...
Another proof that hddvd is dead: http://www.dvdempire.com/Co...
And check amazon to see how hddvd is falling again after the anniversary celebration.
Samsung going hybrid is very good news for bluray since it has more support, more movies are coming and more bluray sales,GREAT NEWS FOR BLURAY
You can see the spike I told you on april 15 for the anniversary of hddvd ( http://www.avsforum.com/avs...
and you can see how its falling again: http://www.eproductwars.com...
Bluray is ouselling hddvd,and the ps3 is the hddvd killer,check Nielsen numbers if you want proof,bluray is outselling hddvd since december
and in europe hddvd is literally dead: http://www.eproductwars.com...
http://www.eproductwars.com...
5.1 Phyba Optikz youre talking about something else,we are talking about MOVIES SALES,not players sale,MOVIES STUDIOS dont make money on players but on MOVIES they sale and they are the one that will be the decisive factor in this war,RIGHT NOW bluray(movies sale is outselling hddvd since december)Check my links for proof,it seems you are confusing players and movies sales,more support for bluray,more movies for bluray ,you are very funny you don't even know what youre talking about