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Old 12-04-2005, 06:53 AM  
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Originally Posted by aico
Since Piracy is the BIGGEST concern right now of all the studios, I am willing to bet they will prefer to have their titles on Blu-ray. Studios are losing tons of money on DVD piracy.

And people seem to prefer Blu-ray over HD-DVD

"Jul 13, 2005 - Study Shows Consumers Prefer Blu-ray Disc Over HD-DVD

A new poll suggests that as the battle between Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD heats up, consumers overwhelmingly prefer Blu-ray Disc as their format of choice. In the poll, conducted by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, a nationally recognized strategic polling firm, consumers were given a side-by-side comparison of the two formats. Out of the 1200 consumers surveyed 58% preferred Blu-ray Disc, 26% were undecided and only 16% preferred HD-DVD. Of those consumers who indicated that they are extremely interested in purchasing the next-generation format, 66% favored Blu-ray, 19% were undecided and only 15% preferred HD-DVD. Among the key reasons consumers preferred Blu-ray were the ability to play the discs in more CE devices, personal computers and gaming consoles, backward compatibility with current DVD media, disc capacity and the ability to record large amounts of high-definition or standard definition video and data."
Nice find. In the end the consumer decides for reasons that might be unknown at this point. Over the long run I think Hard Drive storage/playback is the going to win. If you read Mark Cubins blog on the subject he makes sum very valid points. Whether you like him personally or not he is a visionary and made tons trying to figure out "whats next".

Hard drives are getting cheaper, faster, smaller. Thats all I want to play with for portable media.

I just bought a 200 Gig external HD for $99! The thing is awsome and its for nothing but movies. The same one probably coast $1000 a few years ago.

I simply want to purhcase an HD Movie online, download it to my hard drive and play it out of my PC to my HDTV Home Theater. Is that too much tooo ask?
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