Home Theater: Third Competitor for Blu-ray and HD-DVD
January 11th, 2007 in Dvd, Home Theater
If you’re still wavering between Toshiba’s HD DVD and Pioneer’s Blu-ray (and who isn’t) then you’ll either be very pleased or very angry that Warner Home Video has announced a third format: the Total Hi Def disc, a hybrid choice containing both formats.
The title they were showing off at CES 2007 was Superman Returns (pictured) which apparently played on a Pioneer Blu-ray player, a Toshiba HD-DVD player and an LG Super Multi player (which plays both formats anyway) looking exactly the same on all three.
A nice technological achievement for sure. But is adding what’s essentially a third format really the right way to solve the format war? Even though it’s a great compromise between the two, Warner will still have to market the Total Hi Def disc and beat out the Toshiba and Pioneer products, effectively making themselves just another competitor.
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January 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
The high-def dvd battle has been big talk this week and this new dual dvd is a big intro into the market. The Compete.com blog today take a more in-depth look at the market and who is winning the race by tracking internet traffic and who is shopping for each of the players online and who is shopping for both of them. It’s worth a look… http://blog.compete.com/2007/01/11/blu-ray-hd-dvd-lg/