Who will win? Microsoft or Sony?
Posted in Home Theater by Ben on May 22nd, 2006 
Who do you think will win, Microsoft or Sony?
What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fight over the format for High Definition television DVDs.
There are two competing formats. HD-DVD which is supported by Microsoft and Blu-Ray which is supported by Sony. Sony’s Playstation3 will feature Blu-Ray and include games on Blu-Ray discs. It will also support Blu-Ray DVDs, regular DVDs, Playstation2, and Playstation video games! Wow, thats a lot of stuff all wrapped up into one super game system.
I’m still not sure that is enough though. Playstation3 is going to run $500 and by the time you buy games and extras it will be well over $500.
Do you know anyone buying the Playstation3 for the Blu-Ray high definition DVDs? I doubt it!
Everyone will be buying Playstation3 for the video games!
Meanwhile HD-DVD will continue pumping out new titles at a lower cost than the equivalent Blu-Ray movies. Plus Microsoft is backing HD-DVD, so the new version of windows will undoubtedly support HD-DVD but not Blu-Ray.
Lets see. If you could sell one piece of software to every playstation3 owner, or every owner of a Windows based PC. Which would you choose?
That’s why I am choosing Microsoft to win and for HD-DVD to become the defacto standard in High Definition movies. Theres just a heck of a lot more computers AND media center enabled PCs than there are video game systems… AND eventually Microsoft will release a new XBOX which also ties into HD-DVD.
Hands down, HD-DVD wins!
- Ben Fitts
Get HDTV
PS. Disagree? Leave me a comment and let me know why!
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