TIME magazine deems PS3 a bust

[TheDruid]

Love some of the comments at joystiq.com, especially this one (it starts otu childish, yet ends up being surprisingly insightful)...

Posted at 8:29PM on Dec 18th 2006 by notu:
38. Sony will win because of Blu-Ray. It's obvious dummies.
...as far as next-gen movie playback formats go, Blu-ray has a brighter future than HD-DVD. All of these 2006 movies are Blu-ray exclusives in the future, meaning anyone wanting them in HD will HAVE to get a Blu-ray player (or a PS3).
- Of the top 25 highest grossing films of all time (translated, the most popular films), 16 are by companies that are exclusive to Blu-ray, and 8 others are on both formats. Only 2 are exclusive to HD-DVD.
- Next year, there are currently more than four times as many Blu-ray movies listed for release than HD-DVD
- Average price of a Blu-ray movie (about $23 on Amazon.com) is less than the HD-DVD average price

The fact that Blu-Ray has Disney and such is the very least of my concerns.

Sadly, it appears to be more than just Disney/Pixar. From the above-quoted commenter:

- All movie studios except Universal are commited to Blu-Ray. A number of them are not making any HD-DVD versions at all, like box office leader Sony (Spiderman 3 in '07-woohoo!), Fox (Star Wars, Aliens, and Die Hard franchises), and Disney (including Pixar's awesome flicks and Pirates 1-3). Only Universal is exclusive to HD-DVD, and they have been averaging near the bottom half of all of the big movie studios in how well their pictures do over the past few years.

:-\

Thanks for reposting my qutoe... see above

[Darren Dirt]

Yeah, but I *sourced* it



Funny, sharp-witted op-ed at ExtremeTech: "PlayStation 3 Losers Need to Get a Life"

[Cova]

Just something to keep in mind about movie studio's and the formats they are supporting...

The only HD-DVD exclusive is Universal.

The Blu-Ray exlcusives are Sony (Duh - it's their format), Disney, and Fox.

Disney and Fox were the only two studio's that backed the Divx format (not the video codec - the disk format), along with Circuit City, and that entire concept failed.  Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that the 3 blu-ray exclusive studios are also the 3 most consumer-unfriendly studio's?  Think it's coincidence that blu-ray has stricter copy-protection?  How about the fact that a lot of the delay's in getting blu-ray to market were in getting that copy-protection system built.

And I'm pretty sure HD-DVD is still well ahead in total number of titles released, as well as the obvious advantage in cheaper players and cheaper disks.

[Thorin]

Of the top 25 highest grossing films of all time (translated, the most popular films), 16 are by companies that are exclusive to Blu-ray, and 8 others are on both formats. Only 2 are exclusive to HD-DVD.

I read this a couple of times before I realized 16+8+2 != 25...  Which makes me wonder, if the additive math is wrong, is it possible that the numbers for each of the three choices (BluRay only, HD-DVD only, both formats) is wrong, too?  I guess I could check that myself, but I'm too lazy

So how many movie studios are not exclusive to either BluRay or HD-DVD?  We're focusing here on movie studios that are exclusive to one or the other, but it's possible (I haven't done the research and math) that the majority of movies will not be created by studios that are exclusive to a single technology.  Which really is the smartest thing to do, if you want to sell the most number of DVDs possible.