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Chalk it up to Casino Royale blu-ray

Posted by Jazz Inmate (A) on March 17, 2007 at 18:29:30

In Reply to: Amazon sales of Blu ray versus HD DVD posted by Ole Lund Christensen on March 17, 2007 at 14:41:33:

Simultaneous release of the blu-ray and standard DVD for a blockbuster title. I understand the blu-ray outsold the full-screen DVD version. Pretty amazing.

Here we have a video "format war" analogous to the SACD vs DVD-A "war". The real war, as we learned before, is with the dominant existing format, in this case standard DVD. The reason high-resolution may eventually win out is because the entire industry must address FCC-mandates to switch to HDTV broadcasting in 2009. Once that happens, and there is a big installed base of HDTV sets, I don't see standard DVD lasting much longer.
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