DVD of choice
There is a battle ongoing between different camps in the entertainment industry about which format to chose as a follow up to the current DVD format.
There is one that is called Blu-Ray while the otheris dubbed High Definition or HD-DVD.
Lined up are the woh-is-who of the entertainment industry and the consumer electronics manufacturers:
"Walt Disney, the second largest multi-media corporation in the U.S., announced Thursday that it would adopt the Blu-ray format. Disney will add its formidable clout to a long list of Blu-ray Disc advocates including Sony, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Hitachi and Matsushita." Others are Dell, Hitachi, HP, Panasonic (Matsushita), Pioneer, Samsung and Philips
In the other camp you find names such as Toshbia and NEC and the film studios Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom, Universal Studios, which was recently acquired by General Electric and Time Warner's studios, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema.
The battle reminds many of the earlier ones, in the 1980s, between Betamax and VHS. Betamax was backed by Sony, but ultimately, the VHS won. It is said that Blue-Ray discs have a storage capacity of 50 gigabytes while HD-DVDs' has 25 gigabytes.
Let's hope that the consumer has got a choice in this as well and that may be for once, the preferred or better format wins - otherwise, some might be unhappy.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
There is one that is called Blu-Ray while the otheris dubbed High Definition or HD-DVD.
Lined up are the woh-is-who of the entertainment industry and the consumer electronics manufacturers:
"Walt Disney, the second largest multi-media corporation in the U.S., announced Thursday that it would adopt the Blu-ray format. Disney will add its formidable clout to a long list of Blu-ray Disc advocates including Sony, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Hitachi and Matsushita." Others are Dell, Hitachi, HP, Panasonic (Matsushita), Pioneer, Samsung and Philips
In the other camp you find names such as Toshbia and NEC and the film studios Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom, Universal Studios, which was recently acquired by General Electric and Time Warner's studios, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema.
The battle reminds many of the earlier ones, in the 1980s, between Betamax and VHS. Betamax was backed by Sony, but ultimately, the VHS won. It is said that Blue-Ray discs have a storage capacity of 50 gigabytes while HD-DVDs' has 25 gigabytes.
Let's hope that the consumer has got a choice in this as well and that may be for once, the preferred or better format wins - otherwise, some might be unhappy.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 3:04 pm
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