Comments on: HD DVD group shrugs off Blockbuster announcement

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:17:20 +0000

My opinion about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is that even
if customers have a hard time to make their choice for the next format I believe that the winner will be:

Blu-Ray

Reasons:

* Have more support from the movie-studios than HD-DVD have.

* BD+ the little extra copy-protection may lead the few
movie-studios who support HD-DVD to choose Blu-Ray instead.

* The movie-studios will do anything to protect their movies from pirates and their for choose a format that has an extra barrier in their hip-pocket.

/Mac

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:23:08 +0000

Very interesting comparison to Universal supporting HD DVD before launch, but it’s a bit different since Blockbuster is not a content producer, just a rental outlet.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:31:52 +0000

The first response had Graffeo insulting Blockbuster’s business model saying basically they were irrelevant to today’s market. That’s nice.

This response is also basically the same thing. Rentals may be only 1% of Universal’s business, but it’s a multi-billion dollar consumer business with Blockbuster holding over 70% of that market.

The first response Graffeo said it was a “premature” move for Blockbuster. Apparently the irony was lost on him as his company chose to support HD DVD exclusively before $1 in sales were made, and Blockbuster used 6 months of sales to make their decision.