Sony:”The format war is over”
In the next generation recording format war Sony now feels comfortable enough to declare it’s own victory. With the addition of Warner Brothers to support the Blu-ray optical media format, Sony now has five out of six major Hollywood studios in the Blu-ray team.
It really seems that Sony and Blu-ray is really getting an advantage. Blu-ray has had more visibility and attention than the rival HD-DVD. The PlayStation 3 will automatically guarantee millions of supporting playback devices. And last but not the least it seems that in peoples’ opinion, Blu-ray is the leader.
“With this, the format war is now over,” a Sony representative said last Friday, adding that with Warner Brothers’ support “five out of six Hollywood studios are supporting Blu-ray disc, which has a much larger market”.The move by Warner Brothers, one of Toshiba’s staunchest supporters, follows the decision by Paramount earlier this month to bring out content in both HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc standards.
It appears to tip the balance in favour of Sony’s format.
In addition to the growing support of Hollywood, the Blu-ray disc format has the backing of companies accounting for 90 per cent of the PC market, 80 per cent of the games market and 90 per cent of the consumer electronics market, Sony said.
Source: The Australian
