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WB Got Payout From Blu-Ray?
As you all know, Warner Brothers went Blu-Ray, but rumor has it that the WB was rewarded with a fat stack ($500 million!!) of cash money for their choice. The story goes like this: Warner was seeing its DVD sales slump because of the format war and wanted to end it quickly. They preferred HD-DVD, but going Blu would end it sooner. They gave Toshiba a chance if they could get another Blu-Ray studio to switch. FOX was apparently lined up, but dropped at the last minute due to a reported $120 million payout by Sony. This lead Warner to go Blu-Ray as well. If true, this is $620 million of payouts by Sony. Tough luck, Toshiba. You win this game with your checkbook, not lower prices. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Sound Advice: Blu-ray wins in format war, but at what cost? 
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We get saddled with an inferior product because Sony ponied up the dough. Luckily I haven't purchased HD-DVD or Blu-Ray yet but, almost all of the reviews I have read state that the HD loads faster, the interactive features are better, and the backward compatiblity with DVD is better.
Of course since I don't have either I am just talking out of my ass.
and the features are superb. whatever you are reading is full of she-ite
Sony bluray sux compaired to HD DVD, thats a fact... Look it up before you talk..
your a retard, where do you get in any way shape or form that HD-DVD is better than blu ray ... shut your mouth before you talk siht about something in which you know nothing.
Everyone knows the facts.
Bluray has 5x the capacity as HD-DVD
They sell 3x more movies
The only thing HD-DVD has over Blu-Ray (which is pretty cool) is that they put the regular DVD movie on the disc, so you can play it in a regular dvd player as well.
And btw MS has money invested into HD-DVD development, so you can relate the two very easily.
"A: First of all, Blu-ray is a group of companies. And I have nothing against Sony"
http://www.post-gazette.com/ pg/07321/834644-96.stm
If interactive stuff is the only difference.... I could care less... Give me blu-ray for the win because it has a catchier name lol
as far as me putting money down on one to win forget it... by the time this war is over flash memory will be king because it will be smaller in size, have more memory and make less noise!!
no need for great big CD/DVD trays, please God make it so!!!
In my opinion this article is crap, its sources is from some shmuck who is obviously anti-BluRay/Sony.
I thought G4 is suppose to post real news, what are they owned by fox news now.
I get on about 10 other websites that deal with the news on the format war, and for some reason G4 is the only one that posts something like this, which makes me believe its a complete lie and all they want to promote is flaming.
Its common sense, BR outselling HDDVD in the entire world by a large margin. It was only going to be a matter of time before all the studios decide to go Blu-Ray exclusive.
get your facts straight before you over exert yourself. why do you care so much anyway?
and BTW, owning both formats doesn't make you an expert. its still just your personal opinion.
Hologram disks are only a few years away thus making this whole format war pretty senseless.
Sony has too much pride for its own good.
Sony already has multimedia servers you can buy and download movies to. Problem is until the downloads become smaller or Harddrives get a lot bigger (also faster) DL HD movies will not be mainstream unless your not keeping the movies... and downloading over them.... So in reality there is a gap to be filled between DL HD content and DVD.... Blu-ray fits that void... also MS and toshiba left blu-ray to start HD-DVD because the Blu-ray group would not let MS put their interactive program on the disks.... FACT! MS didn't like being told no... so they went off to make their own media with toshiba.
Of course Blu-Ray holds more "data", but this happens to be irrelevant for making movies, since they comfortably fit on either platform. In terms of movie quality, both are tremendous, with past movie reviews giving HD-DVD a slight edge for color and black level details.
Following this format war is just about as exciting as watching the writer's strike!! Just give me streaming HD online already, forget the friggin' discs!!!!!!
Fanboy.
"I do not understand why people fear having completly digital content. "
People like to have a piece of physical evidence of their purchase. They want to be able to have their stuff as a fact even if their PC hard drive fails.
" Xbox 360 is not only the best system to own with the Best games, which will continue with many more to come, but the whole bluray thing is not a problem."
Fanboy again.
"They can get a bluray ad on if they want."
They don't like getting their ego hurt.
"They have the #1 operating sytem with 90% of the market."
Studies show recently that 75% of PCs are Windows.
" Linux... Sux.."
I declare this man a fanboy. Never touched Linux, yet he says it sucks. I actually like Ubuntu.
Actually, Macs did that. Macs developed the visual desktop idea.
" #1 Online network"
Yes, that's obviously why it crashes.
"They just keep signing up more and more studios. "
Not from what I see. I see about 3 Blu-Ray exclusive studios to every 1 HD-DVD exclusive.
Laptops are great but this is a good option
even if you don't have good internet just go to blockbuster and have them put the movie on the flash for you... hell who knows how far it could go... non of the sorry all those movies are out... less stuff in the dump.. I could hear all the tree huggers now calling me scum because I payed for a disc at the store...
The only hate I feel on here is you against anything Sony. I dont feel like getting in a pissing contest with you over which is better, but MS does not have the superior online network. Sony's is free, and I've been playing the siht out of COD4 on PS3 with no problems. Then I got to my cousins to play on his 360, and we had the worst time just waiting for the network. Clogged and running like crap trying to get a match. And he pays for this service I get for free. PSN effing rules, live will never last when you can get the same thing free somewhere else. Oh yeah, and all my demo's and trailers, and downloadable content is free. They dont cost me "points".
do you ever wonder why you spend all of your time defending yourself, and your comments? Rarely do I see someone agree with the garbage you spew. take the hint that you are wrong 90% of the time, and actually get some real information on the items you are backing so you dont look like such an idiot.
Cheap attack is cheap. I actually enjoyed Super Mario World, not like you're old enough to remember it.
"TW, if windows which you say is so bad, why is it that since Windows 95, Microsoft still holds 90% of the PC market and Apple still holds like 10%."
Did you even read what I said. Window's control is plummeting due to the floppage that is Vista. I only use it because of DirectX10, which is MS's cheap way of getting people to buy Vista.
"ac is a P$$y OS for people who don't know computers"
Like movie studios, ISPs, many businesses, and many people/groups that are somewhat respectable.
Your a funny little kid.... it's ok one day your nuts will drop and you will see the world in a different light.... my story as you called it is fact look it up.... or get your parents to look it up and read the big words for you if need be.
" the locked up OS, you can't do any hardware upgrades or change anything"
Ahem, Mac Pro.
" more gaming developers don't support it still and hardly any program companies either"
Bootcamp defeats that argument. You can run Windows in a Mac, but not opposite, because Microsoft is a stuckup ass.
"Mac is not for me, I'm too advanced for that crap."
Then you should be using Linux, because any tech people would prefer Linux, which is highly customisable.
I have seen one, can't remember where though.
This ones $399, but I've seen them down to $299.00 for the burners. You can get a Blu-Ray Player for your computer for around $150
Yoshi5up - by the way, that whole thing about the Vista running better on the Mac came from the Wall Street Jurnal. How credible is the WSJ, when they no nada about computers. Humm, read C-net... please educate your self..
I never insinuated that it ran BETTER, I said that it actually ran. You can't virtualize OS X on a Windows PC, but you can do vice versa.
I wouldn't pay for a 50 GB unless your mom was in the flesh with her face down...
I have never heard of a 56 gig disc, I have heard of a 51 but they have not been able to make it play on all players as of yet and if they can't play on all players they can't release a movie on it, apparently however they say the 100 gig Blu-rays will play on current players but there are currently no plans to release a movie on those as of yet.
LOL, if you want to see a quality movie go to the movies cheapos... Don't sit at home with your blue disc and wank.....
I rather play a decent video game.... that's just me... well there is always next year.... LOL Warhawk and GTA5... what a great line up for such a super duper powerful machine... lol
I wouldn't pay for a 50 GB unless your mom was in the flesh with her face down...
All I hear from the ps3 camp is we gonna we gonna... we gonna lol
Does GT5 exist or even MGS4 lol
Lucky M$ didnt buy GTA exclusive... your system would be trashed...
But I would take flash cards over discs any day they are just all out Better!!!
Please God get rid of the big trays and the discs that are killing the trees and mother earth...
RableRableRableRable GRRRRRRR
and if blu ray has been the better format why is it they are still playing catching up to a format that was released 6 months before theirs?
yeah it looks to me like blu ray needs the extra space so that people wont have to download the firmware update for their players! Since not all of the blu ray players come with a ethernet connection...
better format please!
LOOK at me I am Sony, We have a obsolete player and our games are soo soo... and we charged $600 for lol.
I Would be turning more than BLU at that point...
WE SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY...... Karate Kick
all toshiba needs to do is make some ads on tv just like those hd dvd ads you see on the walmart commercials
all toshiba needs to do is make some ads on tv just like those hd dvd ads you see on the walmart commercials. one more thing hd dvd is a storage media not a format. there are different types of formats that hd dvd requires for movies such as mpeg 2, VC-1, mpeg 4, etc. even me a 14 yr old knows more than most of you guys. Also, you can put ANYTHING on an HD DVD basically ANY type of data on it, its just like CD and DVD and micrsoft does not own hd-dvd in anyway it is toshiba's disk storage type