The Format War


Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD  

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  1. 1. Do you think the current Warner decision to go Blu-ray exclusive will kill finally kill HD-DVD?

    • Yes
      64
    • No
      20
  2. 2. Do you think this will be a big push for PS3 sales in 2008?

    • Yes
      60
    • No
      24
    • 0
  3. 3. Will Playstation HOME kill Xbox Live?

    • Yes
      18
    • No
      66


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Microsoft is still selling faulty consoles at a failure rate of 33%, Xbox Live is breaking down all the time and now HD-DVD is actually dying finally leaving the HD-DVD drive with no long-term future.

I beleive that HD-DVD will die this year. Leaving Microsoft to pay Sony for future Blu-ray drives for either Xbox 360 or Xbox 720.

Sony will get a HUGE boost in PS3 sales due to Blu-ray winning. Blu-ray players will start coming down in price dramatically and Sony will rake up TONS and TONS of cash.

This will mean more exclusive games hopefully and no more crappy ports due to PS3 getting big sales.

Playstation Home is coming this year along with heaps and heaps of exclusive games and other great games.

It really looks like 2008 is going to be the year for PS3 IMO.

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Warner, New Line decision is one step closer to end the format war. If that is going to push PS3? yeah I think it will help to sell PS3 but not sure how many. The PS3 is the best thing you can get right now to play Blu-Ray.

For the third question a big fat NO hehe. Home is not going to do anything to Live.

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Yes, HD DVD will die this year. Yes, more PS3s will probably be sold this year, due to the high failure rates of the 360. The PS3 has the lowest failure rate of all the consoles (<1%). And no, PlayStation HOME will not kill Xbox Live.

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1. Probably

2. Yes

3. No*

* It won't kill Live, Live is going nowhere. What it will do though, is if implemented well, it could challenge the fact you pay for Live, and you won't pay for Home/PSN.

If Sony get the same features as Live has and manage to do them on par, or respectably when put side-to-side, that is when MS may need to rethink their business plan with Live.

It is all ifs just now, but you're pretty naive if you think, if Sony do get a service similar to Live on the free, Live won't have to consider going through some sorta changes. Whether that be offer more (something Home/PSN can't) or simply reducing costs/becoming free.

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Microsoft is still selling faulty consoles at a failure rate of 33%, Xbox Live is breaking down all the time and now HD-DVD is actually dying finally leaving the HD-DVD drive with no long-term future.

Can you please give me the source for that 33% please.

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Can you please give me the source for that 33% please.

Estimates, but he didn't pull the figure of 33 out his ass, it's been said online - Infact 33% is the figure you'll see everywhere, even Wikipedia quotes it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems ) , but anyone can update that site.

Just showing to you, it is the figure making rounds.

Retailers Estimate Xbox 360 Failure Rate High as 33 Percent - http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7892

That's from back in July 07.

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Can you please give me the source for that 33% please.

You don't need to go that far. Check the front page's poll.

592 people with an Xbox... and 248 with RROD once or multiple times. That makes it 41 %.

Of course, evil anti xbox fanboys could have voted the negative ones and that wouldn't surprise me.

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The first two questions nearly have obvious answers now. As for the third - Will it kill Live? No, but if finely tweaked and feature packed... it ought to give it a hell of a run. (Y)

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Yes.

Yes.

No.

Home is a big joke, to me atleast. I don't see it being as successful or great as it has been hyped out. I guess well just have to wait and see.

I want a Wii. :/

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dont think home is meant to "compete" with live, more like they're betting that it'll be like the next big thing. The most likely scenario is that they'll both offer basically the same thing but differently.

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PS3 is going to sell great in 2008 but no way is Home going to kill Xbox Live. I'm sure if they improve on PSN and implement Home it's going to be a lot more appealing and more people will look at a PS3 over paying for Xbox Live.

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I beleive that HD-DVD will die this year. Leaving Microsoft to pay Sony for future Blu-ray drives for either Xbox 360 or Xbox 720.

Microsoft does'nt care about hd-dvd or blu-ray.. they were just backing blu-ray because it hurts sony and blu-ray didnt include their menu system ( I think its iHD) and went for java. Microsoft get their money either way because VC1 is a standard codec in both hd-dvd and blu-ray.

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Home will definitely not do anything to 'kill' XBOX live. Trust me on this one, lol. However I do think HD-DVD has its days numbered, but we will only really know that for sure if Paramount and Universal decide to switch.

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