Dell Inc., one of the largest suppliers of personal computers on the globe, said on Monday that the Blu-ray disc format will eventually win the war between next-generation digital video disc formats because of broad industry support. To confirm the claim, Dell introduced its new laptop with Blu-ray disc optical drive.
"Blu-ray optical drive technology has gained broad industry support and we believe it will become the optical drive standard of the future," said. Alex Gruzen, senior vice president, Dell Product Group. The Blu-ray disc format is fighting against HD DVD format to replace DVD in future.
Meanwhile, monitoring of consumer discussions by Cymfony research firm reveal that more people are impressed by HD DVD rather than by Blu-ray and there are just a few discussions of Blu-ray advantages over HD DVD in the forums over the Internet.
Cymfony conducted an independent study of discussion about new high definition video formats and players. Between October 1, 2006 and November 23, 2006, the research firm aggregated 17 664 posts from blogs, discussion boards and other social media sites. Discussion was evenly divided between HD DVD (50% of posts) and Blu-ray (45%), while the individual products using these platforms were rarely discussed (5% of posts). Early adopter sources drove the majority of conversations.
Within the higher amount of HD DVD discussions, there were more positive feedback (32.9%) about the format and products, whereas among discussions of the Blu-ray there were much less positive posts (23.5% of all). At the same time, 23.4% of those talking about Blu-ray were negative about the standard and only 14.2% of those discussing the HD DVD generated negative feedback.
Even though it is obvious that there are more early adopters of the HD DVD that may generate negative posts about the Blu-ray compared to the number of Blu-ray adopters who may post downbeat feedback about the HD DVD, a significant amount of discussions pessimistic about the Blu-ray, perhaps, were caused by poor-quality Blu-ray movies – that were recorded in DVD resolution – released this summer...
The new unit comprises over 500 developers representing the entire World of Warcraft development team.
I used to be anti-union, it kills productivity, investment and turns product mediocre. Their games suck anyways though so what was lost? Might as well get their people paid until they are dissolved.
Unions are necessary regardless of how you feel. You know how fked the working class would be without them. As if we're not already.
No they aren’t, regardless of how you feel. Unions make zero sense for skill based labor. They are for people who press a button every 10 seconds on an assembly line. “working class” is a made up term. I don’t care about corporations or developers, I just want good games lol. Killing your incentives to appease the lowest common denominator doesn’t lead to great games imo
I wasn’t trying to be offensive if I came off that way. The Union is an old mentality and I can see their usefulness but also the danger. We’re in the age of AI and robots and skill based labor. Unions can be dangerous these days. You could replace your entire workforce in one move. Checkmate. Look to the kiosk replacing workers in the 20 dollar minimum wage era.
Well run businesses don’t need unions. If you need a Union that business won’t survive anyway. Unless it’s propped up by the government with corporate welfare (which is the real issue). If you’re not going to spend some on your workers (Amazon, Google) then your welfare is cut off. No tax breaks. All you put together don’t match their wealth and resources, the union is a traditional memory at this point and counterproductive with this new enemy we face. They need a flying elbow from the top ropes. And by “working class is a made up term” I just mean we’re not a class system and even CEO Bobby Kotick puts in a days work lol. Or did.. It’s just a vague term that doesn’t mean anything no offense lol. People say “middle class” but that can change quick right? Up or down. That’s not a “class system”.
Modders have cooked up something pretty special – a Wii console which is small enough to fit on your keys. A wee Wii.
Another studio has held layoffs, this time its Humble Games letting go of its entire QA team according to social media posts.
They will rehire cheaper labor during the restructuring. The stupid thing is that they are struggling and the first thing they do is lower the quality.
So HD-DVD is already the standard for HD movies. Give up Blu Ray. You lost.
HP is now selling computers with HD-DVD players in them. So much for Blu-Ray dominating the PC market.
And wasn't Thomson supposed to be a Blu- Ray supporter, too?? I guess they jumped ship as well. Expect more defections from the Sony camp in the near future.
Sucks anyway, thier support went to hell. HP is the way to go. Beside I have an HP laptop with the $100 HD-DVD drive on order, the cheapest HD drive around. The blu-ray pc drives cost around $600. There is no way Blu-Ray will win, HD-DVD should already be considered the winner, because they have dominated all year, and continue to further the gap with the 360 add-on. By the end of 2006 there will be 10 time more HD-DVD players than Blu-Ray players, because of Microsofts HD-DVD add-on. Who would have thought the 360 would help HD-DVD win the format war. I guess choice does matter after all!!!
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Dell is selling the XBox 360 HD-DVD player in it's online store!!!! They are also selling 360 consoles, games and accessories.
It boils down to price for me. Why would I pay twice as much for a Blu-Ray Player when it does not show me any substantial difference between them and HD-DVD. Price will when this war not storage space.
The movies for both formats are identically priced, and the players are fairly close in pricing as well. Why anyone would want to waste money on HD-DVD is beyond me.
Then again, a lot of people prefer slightly lower priced merchandise at the expense of quality/superiority. So far, PS3's the highest quality Blu-ray player on the market (no joke) since it has HDMI 1.3, but unfortunately there aren't enough to go around. Eventually it'll get to the point where consumers will be going "Do I spend $300 on an HD-DVD player, or $400 on a PS3 that plays Blu-ray movies and 3 generations of games all in one box?"
(thinking two years ahead, of course) Consumers also love value, so it's important to put Sony's system into the mix. Honestly, it's too early to tell which one will win, though most of the people I know who've heard of these formats want Blu-ray instead.