Remember the HD-DVD Blu-Ray war?

[Riosan]

Good times, good times.

[えっちーせんぱい]

Okay, what about them?

[Totla]

I like how people still rip on Sony for choosing Blu Ray, even though it won when no one thought it would.

[Riosan]

Okay, what about them?

You're telling us to discuss something, I'm discussing.

[えっちーせんぱい]

Okay, what about them?

You're telling us to discuss something, I'm discussing.

I suppose, its a start.


Anyway, violet lasers whee~

[phatyo]

Also good money waist. For all those that bought an HD dvd or that 360 HD dvd converter.

[Silverhawk79]

I personally wanted HD-DVD to win, just because I don't like Sony. D:
But oh well, it's just a DVD.

[ThePowerOfOne]

Blu-Ray ftw

[Triforceman22]

I'll pick either...

Blu-ray can store more, but has long-ass loading screens (MGS4)

I swear, I had to wait 4 minutes for the darn thing to load for me.

[Tupin]

It was so easy to predict that Blu-Ray would win.

[Beatnik]

I was pretty sure Blu-ray was going to win. Better name, better capacity, and they announced it something like 5 years ago and got hype going for it.

I'll pick either...

Blu-ray can store more, but has long-ass loading screens (MGS4)

I swear, I had to wait 4 minutes for the darn thing to load for me.

If you went to a five star restaurant would you bang on the table if your food wasn't there in 5 minutes?

Games like MGS4, much like gourmet food, take longer for a reason: Perfection takes time.

[Riosan]

It was so easy to predict that Blu-Ray would win.

Obviously. If the PS2 beat out the Dreamcast just because it had DVD compatibility, it was so easy to see that the successor to the best selling console in history would win.

[Tupin]

It was so easy to predict that Blu-Ray would win.

Obviously. If the PS2 beat out the Dreamcast just because it had DVD compatibility, it was so easy to see that the successor to the best selling console in history would win.

Well, proprietary Sony formats didn't go well before.

Oh, and nice Faceball 2000 avatar.

[L10]

http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/313/format-war/QT

These people have pretty good videos.

[THEEVILSPERKY]

I like how people still rip on Sony for choosing Blu Ray, even though it won when no one thought it would.

As a lurker of the forums of the site "highdefdigest", I can say I saw a fair amount of people were rather sure of blu-ray. >_>
Just the headlines that appeared on the site all the time showed blu-ray had more promise.  More capacity, more studios supporting it, Warner ceasing hd-dvd and going blu-only, Disney being behind blu-ray as well, stores such as Wal*Mart and Best Buy recommending blu-ray over hd-dvd, sections in such stores not 50/50 on shelf-space, stores going blu-only, etc. etc. etc....

The Toshiba format's good news never rained on the parade of success blu-ray was achieving.

I don't know if saying Sony "chose" blu-ray is quite correct either.. I thought they were behind it and other entities chose it.