So a couple weeks ago Blockbuster announced they would be only offering Blu-Ray DVDs at there stores. This is a big loss for HD-DVD. So now many are claiming that the format wars are over.
I disagree.
Sony struggling sales of it PlayStation3 along with the fact that stand alone Blu-Ray players still cost around $1000.00 and are not selling well shows that consumers are not ready to jump on the Blu-Ray technology. Also, since you can buy a HD-DVD player for around $300.00 and an increasing offering of games and movies is keeping Toshiba and it's partners in the competition.
I still am not sure if either format will win the DVD war. In fact both Blu-ray and HD-DVD offers consumers something more than regular DVDs and each has some advantages over the other. If I had to predict, my guess would be once one of the technologies starts to dominate the market, something even better will be made.
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The disc format will soon be irrelevant. Consumers have great options for downloading and storing their video content on products like the MS Home Server, Apple TV and XBox Media Center directly from Netflix, Wal-Mart and Blockbuster. And this year these options will mature rapidly. In a year we will no longer be using discs. We will move media around on devices like the iPod or the Zune or even a large capacity USB thumb drives. Discs are a thing of the past, just like the 1.4mb floppy which was still in use just a few short years ago.
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