Another Win for Blu-Ray

[Justin Buser]

Things are looking good for Sony as it has been announced that Twentieth Century Fox is choosing Blu-ray over HD-DVD as the next-generation media storage format it will support.

How does this relate to the XBox360? Well, Microsoft has been backing the HD-DVD, and it is also rumoured that a later version of the Xbox360 console will include HD-DVD as opposed to the standard DVD it currently has.

So the more people that Sony can get to support Blu-Ray (which is included in the PS3 as standard), the less attractiva HD-DVD (Toshiba) starts to look. As a worst case scenario, it might mean that HD-DVD never takes off, and the Xbox360 is left without any sort of next gen media support at all, unless MS want to jump onto Sony's bandwagon and use Blu-Ray too.

As it currently stands the top 6 movie studios are evenly divided on which format they will support.

This move also means that the "unified format" that has been touted is that much farther away, however the probably of that taking off were probably always a bit slimmer that one might think when it seems that Sony is already fully committed to the Blu-Ray format via the PS3. Then again, how hard would it be to change the media format in a console?

[Real Maximo]

Aprently Blue ray disc's and lasersis a lot more expensive to make so will the public back this when normal DVD's are so cheap to buy nower days?

[Grindstone]

I am not too concerned at this point for a couple of reasons; it'll be a while before we start seeing a necessity for Blu-ray (maybe up to 5 years) and the gaming industry is no-where near using up 9 gigs of space on a standard Dvd. If this were 2010 and we were looking at the Xbox 3.1419... then it would be a huge issue.

But, I'll be fine with a standard Dvd player in my Xbox 360, rather than a potentially useless HD-Dvd player.

[pApA SmerF01]

well stated grindstone.

i seriously doubt that blu-ray will be applicable in a generally modest fashion for at least 3 years. remember how much dvd's were in 1995? god awful expensive, and not many people bought into it.

[Cybergig1]

yeah most we'd see them do with all that extra space is just make the CG cut scenes all HD and not so compressed, thats about it lol, maybe we could get DTS sound LOL now that'd be pretty tight on my system I wouldn't complain if they gave me that option

[pApA SmerF01]

it would be nice for the cpu not to have to decompress the data, even if they created a revolutionary real-time decompression method.

but hey, as the stones said, "you can't always get what you want"

[Glock 19]

I am not too concerned at this point for a couple of reasons; it'll be a while before we start seeing a necessity for Blu-ray (maybe up to 5 years) and the gaming industry is no-where near using up 9 gigs of space on a standard Dvd. If this were 2010 and we were looking at the Xbox 3.1419... then it would be a huge issue.

But, I'll be fine with a standard Dvd player in my Xbox 360, rather than a potentially useless HD-Dvd player.
I totally agree also like grind said it is not 2010 we probly won't be seeing blue -ray till the next generation consoles after 360 and ps3. :top: