Blu-ray's Atomic Bomb In the Format War

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I think now HD DVD has woken blu ray up. Competition does that, Blu ray has to start pushing now. More advertisment, studious need to step up production. Prices need to drop.

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BIadestarX6900d ago

I though blu-ray already won and blu-ray adoption is innevitable. Why would they need to do this? Why are they wasting money promoting blu-ray when blu-ray needs no promotion?

If Sony is so confident that blu-ray already won... why so much noise over Paramount pictures HD DVD exclusivity and promotions like this one? Can it be.. You know... people promote and advertise only when they need to.

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Xbox 360 Will6900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

Disney and Fox are taking it upon themselves to promote Blu-ray and if you took time to read the story this was planned way before the Paramount news. Go do something productive like fix your over heated 360 rather then polluting these news stories with your nonsense.

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heroman7116900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

@ bladestar
dude u are on a roll of not being a fanboy. yesterday u made a comment on how hs looked amazing, 2day u made a comment on how sixaxis is pretty good its just the developers that **** it up and now this which i agree with u on. bluray won a while ago and i dont think disney needs to do this ( even though i guess it would help them more . transformers diector and speilberg are pretty pissed off bout what paramount did. do this more often and u are gonna get some respect ( by " this " i mean not be biased towards a console cuz in the past it felt like that torwards ps3 from u

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cuco336900d ago

4million ps3s vs 400k hd dvd players
that's 10:1 more players

but these quotes sales is 2:1 in favor of BR...
expect changes to be made, the promised dominance of the ps3 for BR to sell movies isn't happening.
no one will win this war, a stalemate is inevitable

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WilliamRLBaker6900d ago

how is what bladestar said remotely fanboyish? he mentioned no systems or any thing only companies. And what he said is fact, the blu ray camp is adiment about how they've won the war all ready, sony says it, the cows *sony fanboys* say it, yet once paramount announced the deal sony, the BDA, and Cows went into hyper drive damage control.

And now this? if blu ray has all ready won? why do they need such a redicules setup?

As for that this isn't an atomic bomb...this is more like...a bb shot froma bb gun, An Atomic bomb would be lower blu ray player prices to 100 dollars.

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poet2156900d ago

In his defense....I started reading topics on this site about early June. Bladestar was posting some off the wall opinions and bashing PS3 & Sony every chance available. The last few weeks, he's been making more valid points in his arguments. I'm by no means here to judge anyone on their views, but I think considering his past comments, he deserves his props.

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BIadestarX6900d ago

You see.. that's the problem.. Sony mix the whole blu-ray with the PS3... and is all a big blur... I am not talking about PS3... I am talking about blu-ray... console what? I am talking about blu-ray and my anger is towards blu-ray... and Sony and blu-ray camp sounding so confident and saying that blu-ray war was over.. yet.. look what's happening.... "Next Gen starts when we say so.... blu-ray already won the format war.... we are doing this ... and that..." and then.. didnt you guys see all the noice they made when Paramount announced their support for HD DVD? and now this? thats all I am saying.

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ParaDise_LosT6900d ago

toshiba from doing the same thing I wonder.

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ArduousAndy6900d ago

the reason is because sony has a small penis and needs a big screen to make it seem as its not?

In all serious i hope they choose something better then Cars that movie was nothing more then a Tex Avery rip off.

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plastixblue6900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

Another post about the format war...on A gaming site. Other that PS3 having their games on Blu-Ray this has nothing to do with gaming. Has anyone put a game on HD-DVD yet? As I said yesterday Im personally tired of seeing posts about this on gaming sites. Oh well said my peace. I feel better now. :)

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doublertist6900d ago

this post was in the industry section....

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plastixblue6900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

However my point is this will reach 1000 degrees and be on the front page. Of a Gaming site.(The name is News for GAMERS. Not Home movie watchers.) Starting another pointless debate on what format is better and so on. Personaly unless you own a ps3 or a HD-DVD player,(I have both so Im good no matter who wins)I think it's pretty foolish to back either at this time.

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i Shank u6900d ago

nice comment man, i agree. tho it is in the industry news, the majority of these stories make it to the front page, which is where most people go (duh). its not "News 4 Entertainment", its says gamers for a reason. but just like how people are crazy over PS3 vs. 360, this is another outlet for them to pick a side and fight a "war". jackasses

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Nameless6900d ago

I say ignore all Fan Boys when it comes to facts.

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mighty_douche6900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

i like the fact theres a ps3 on the left, more ps3's sold means more developer support and thats all sony needs!

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SIX6900d ago

Man that thing is ugly, but It will probably go a long way in swaying the general publics perspective on which format to go with. If anything can build the publics familiarity with a foreign format. It's this thing........with some kids sitting around it eating ice cream........

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ALIEN6900d ago

"Blu-ray has been turning the tide, selling almost twice as many discs this year as HD DVD" Blu-ray is taking over, and that's good for the PS3. If the price of Blu-ray drops, than SONY will drop the Price of the PS3. Im glad that PS3 comes with a blu-ray player bluit-in.

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damnwrx6900d ago

To end this right now!
Hopefully HD DVD will NOT try and post a big advertisement If so, that means the're copying Blu-ray.....

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JIN KAZAMA6900d ago

please, STFU. You are actually trying to go against the marketting GIANT that Sony is. You are a MS loveboy, that just wants to bash Sony. All of your hate, and ignorance is just so funny. You act like you know what you are tlaking about, and time after time, you get proven wrong. Arent you tired of making yourself look like a complete ASS??

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i Shank u6900d ago

do you notice how bladestar used his comment to make conversation, while you used yours to make an attack on bladestar? you not only look like the ass, you sound it too

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cdzie16900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

What does this remind me of?

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Xbox 360 Will6900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

recognizable name brand so that doesn't even compare.

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WilliamRLBaker6899d ago

what kind of an stupid idea is that? disney is an much more recognizble name brand? so you can't compare the 2?

So basically what your trying to say is this.

We'll these 2 companies do an ad campaign its obvious the bigger company stole the idea, but because the bigger company is bigger then they are right? and its not a stolen idea?

Righttttt...

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damnwrx6900d ago

Isn't that picture from the convention (E3)....Don't pull that crap here....

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damnwrx6900d ago

Can someone just post "DISNEYLAND" so, CDZIE1 can sh*t Up.

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xionpunk6900d ago

LOL that thing is a beast

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daveman36900d ago

disney practically owns the world, so if they want people to have blu ray, people will have blu ray

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PimpHandHappy6900d ago

Yea thats right bladeguy! I will admit u have been more level headed and maybe u started to see why all this hate for a silly game consele is not worth ur time!

till this

If Sony is so confident that blu-ray already won... why so much noise over Paramount pictures HD DVD exclusivity and promotions like this one? Can it be.. You know... people promote and advertise only when they need to

ummmmmm did u see Halo on the burger kings cups? Yea u did cuz ur ma bought u one!

Go look up some numbers!

I got some for ya!

360 has sold 10.4 mil units

Wii has sold 10.4 mil units

PS3 has sold 6 mil units

Now tell me with ur 360 having over a year ahead of both the Wii and Sony why are these number important!

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WilliamRLBaker6900d ago

yes i see your going by vgchartz numbers...so ill say this once...ps3 is at 4.32m by vgchartz numbers not 6m.

P.S microsoft has neither said the war is won. neither has nintendo...but sony said it alot when it came to blu ray and the ps3 *basically saying the war was over before it started..ect blah blah blah*

sony is the only one guilty of saying its system won the war.

P.S: with paramount the switch over is now in hd dvd's favor when it comes to STUDIO support.

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PimpHandHappy6900d ago (Edited 6900d ago )

yea ur right 4.32!

i thought i seen 6mil this week!

I have never heard sony say the war is over! In fact i thought they said they will be in the game for the long run! Something like the PS3 is built to last 10 years!

anyway

Paramount has just made ppl mad and the fact that BlueRay has 7 of the 8 major movie companys surporting blueray i guess that is in there favor!

I dont care about HD-DVD and after that 18month deal with Paramount is over u can bet it will go the way of beta! They can say all they want about players under 300bucks because the ppl that are looking into these formats dont worry about money! They want the biggest bang for the buck! And thats blueray sorry to tell ya!

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Shaka2K66900d ago

Pirates 3 and Spidey 3.

nuff said!

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BIadestarX6900d ago

You Sony fanboys don't get it do you? You actually think I don't like the Playstation. You are wrong. I probably like Playstation more than you do. I just hate what Sony did with the Playstation in order to push blu-ray. I hate dislike blu-ray. I dislike that the playstation is getting cheap ports because of blu-ray, I dislike that blu-ray caused the PS3 to be delayed and cause the xbox 360 to pee all over it by reaching a large installbase. I dislike what Sony did with the PSP by adding UMD and only 2-3 years later good games are being made for the PSP since Sony primary focus was the portable UMD disk... and the samething is happening now with the PS3. I think Sony betrayed their real fanbase.

That is why... I get so heated when it comes to blu-ray related articles... grrrrrrrrr! but not everything is bad... I least we got to see some great pictures of Metal Gear! See my comments I don't go balistic against the game side of the PS3... though if some Sony fanboys say something stupid comment like "The core xbox 360 owner is screwed" I give my opinion about it.

So, there you have it. It's not that I have multiple personalities. I like many of the games coming to the PS3... I like the PS3 but hate blu-ray... because I think Sony risked too much and is the cause of the high price, smaller installbase, cheap ports, delays.

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pilotpistolpete6900d ago

I'm not hypocrite and i know that blu-ray wasn't put there only for gaming. Sony used the ps3 as a medium for other marketing.

But look at it this way. Blu-ray is gonna be very beneficial in the near future, most importantly, game size. Developers for Gears openly admitted that they would of benefited from blur-ray.

Its a new technology, but you can simply see it as a game disk. Are you mad Nintendo for forcing 64 cartridges on us?

In fact, the only reason Sony even got in the gaming industry was over a fight with Nintendo over the use of cd, hence ps1 was born.

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