Comments on: Apple sides with Blu-ray Disc in format war

Company joins Blu-ray Disc Association to play role in developing, marketing next-generation DVD format.

[David Arbogast]

CNET GOT IT RIGHT!!! WOOHOO!

<<Current DVDs can hold up to about 8.5GB of information.>>

WOW. After a multitude of articles claiming that DVDs only hold 4GB, CNET finally got their information correct. Nice to see. Good work.

[System Tyrant]

Single sided

Single sided DVD's hold 4.7gb
Dual sided DVD's hold 8.5gb
and the dvd that movies are on typically hold closer to 9gb.

as I recall.

[lavacentral]

HD DVD or Blu ray it doesnt matter

IT really doesnt matter if a disk is going to hold 50 or 30 GB of storage. You say, what??

Well each 50 and 30 are quite large, larger than most hard drives that people have in their 3-4 year old computers or slightly smaller than their current Hard drives.

The point is, The real deciding factor is not how many people Back blu ray, but what is the PRICE for each DVD. If HD DVD costs $2 per disk and blu ray costs $5 per disk, guess which one I (or the consumer) will buy?
I realize that initially both will cost around $20 a piece but eventualy it will come down. We probably wont see disks worth pennies like DVD + or - R's.

[NWLB]

Go Blue.

If the disks are $20 each early on, then people will go with the most storage room. HD DVD will then have to be sold at a lower cost to stay in the game. That lowers profits, makes it a less popular format with some companies, and leaves them open to being outflanked by Sony's Blu Ray when they use the extra 20 GBs to cram on more "extras" which make the disks worth more money, or early-on, simply a better deal at the same price.

Companies are trying to save money up-front with HD DVD only to lose their shirts later on when Blu Ray takes the market.

In any case, I suspect the Sony CEO knows how to win this kind of a fight. Sony's old leadership, maybe not, even though they'd likely win anyway.

HDDs are only getting bigger. Movies are only coming with MORE extras and toys. Many companies won't want to sell the "extras" as something you can access online, because that gives them less ability to sell new versions of the same product. So again, more room on the disk will count for more in the long-term.

I'm not an Apple fan, but they are backing the right horse in this race.

NWLB

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[ahickey]

Playstation3

The one thing nobody has mentioned is that the new Playstation 3 will be Blue-Ray. Since it was the Playstation 2 that out DVD players in a lot of peoples homes and in some cases is the only DVD player in the home I expect that Blu-Ray will win with all these people upgrading to the Playstation 3.
Backward compatiblity with all your current games and DVDs. or get a whole new player and hae one more piece of equipment under the TV.

Blu-Ray will win off the back fo the PS3 sales.

[grey_eminence]

100 Terabyte Atomic Holographic Nanostorage

will hold 4,000 Blu-Ray or HD-DVD disks.

http://colossalstorage.net