Blu-Ray being killed by HDDVD. Not a repeat from 2007

Chinese manufactures have bought Toshiba's HD-DVD technology, called it China Blue High Definition(CHBD) and are out-selling Blu-ray by 3-1 in China.

In 12 months they predict CHBD will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology

blu ray is not being killed.

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Blu Ray wont be killed, especially if thats what hollywood is going for and blockbuster already decided it.

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So you are telling me a DVD player called CHINA Blue High Def is doing well in Chinca? Crazy, would never have thought that.

So their going to flood the american market with bootleg HD DVD's

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This is like watching two dinosaurs battle as a planet sized meteor enters the atmosphere.

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with downloadable movies and the advanced compression for HD content, blu ray is on it's deathbed

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Thought I was the only one saying it in the other thread.

I pay my extra $2 per month to NetFlix for BluRay that I am happy with.

regardless of what you people are saying here, people want a hard copy of a movie. Digital distribution will take over for the most part, but as a counterpart for the physical media.

As much as downloadable content is awesome, if your drives crash, or you want to transport the movie/cd to someone else, just a digital copy alone isn't enough. You need the media to feel like you actually own something.

This is how it will end up: releases will be available for download at release time immediately, then there will be different price structures for various hard copies that will ship at a later date.

I love the digital distribution model, but you just have to have the actual media to hold in your hands.

I'm 25.

I agree with most of what you said. Here's the thing: as soon as you take away the physical medium, it encourages piracy more than ever (it's bad enough as it is now)

People wont pay for 1's and 0's. It will be a matter of time before the industry is destroyed.

Look at what happened to the music industry. It's all but dead right now. Technology killed it. CD's became ripable and bandwidth got faster and faster. Fast forward 10 years and bands do not have any incentive to release a groundbreaking album anymore.

Why should they when the minute they release it, it's pirated (most of the time even before release). This shifts the main money making aspect of music to live touring and bands get burned out on that. A great life changing album has not been released exclusively with iTunes, and never will.

"Dude, did you download that awesome new movie yet?"

"No, I had errors with my ISP, they capped my bandwith for the month. I can't download it till next month."

Video killed the radio star, internet will kill the video star.

The future would be full of amatuers flooding the market with garbage. (think: youtube)

Now onto movies. Movies are following the music industries downfall very closely. Cinema has one huge advantage though. The difference with movies is, that the theater experience cannot be duplicated by 80-90% of consumers.

I actually lost where I was going with this post. I am a fan of digital distribution, but only along side physical media. This forces artists to put out a worthwhile product rather than spewing out garbage at an alarming rate.

I own the wall and dark side of the moon both on vinyl. Would those same albums have as much impact as .flac or .mp3 files with PDF artwork?

No.