Actually it is better if the person is a gamer, if i'm a person who wants to watch blu-ray movie, i would go for PS3 for US$599, rather than buying a Xbox360 Elite with Blu-Ray add-on for around the same price, this is because the PS3 already got the function in one box, rather than a quite bulky add-on as you've seen for HD-DVD. Many of the movies made for HD-DVD already come out for BD-ROM.

If Blu-Ray wins the war, this is not good for me, because I'm Sony-hater (yes I own PSOne, PS2, and the PSP...), but the Blu-Ray is made by Sony, every company that's making Blu-Ray player must pay royalty to Sony, this is same to Toshiba when DVD went famous 7 years ago, this will make that arrogant japanese company to control the media market.

This post has been edited by revived_irfan: May 13 2007, 09:58 PM

READ carefully, I did not said ALL, but MANY of them, if it's too complicated, then it's the same meaning as MOST.

In a recent interview with GameSpot, when quizzed on the new LG HD DVD/Blu-ray combo players, Sir Howard Stringer CEO of Sony had this to say: "It's an expensive way of showing Universal discs. The three biggest box-office winners of this year were, in order: Sony, Disney, and Fox. Those are the three Blu-ray players. When you consider that those three successful studios will be delivering last year's successful box office in home video this year, then that's an enormous advantage. The fourth is Warner, and they release in both formats, so it doesn't hurt. If you are going to be buying discs, you are going to be buying an awful lot of Blu-ray discs going forward-if you want Pirates of the Caribbean or James Bond or Da Vinci Code or Spider-Man. Universal is the only one with HD DVD. I don't feel terribly intimidated."

Original article: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164270.html?...=result;title;1

Only Universal Studios is not supporting Blu-Ray....is this true?

Also, see this:
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/23/blu-r...the-first-time/

Of course, it's only in the US that the HD-DVD lost the lead, remember, I'm Sony-hater, the victory of BD will not be good, the war is yet to over.........

Yup, the same strategy for PS3, which losing hundreds on one unit sold. It is expected for a big corporation to see some profit in the 3rd or 4th year in the console lifecycle, the 5th and the rest is huge profit, this is absent with the first Xbox, and Microsoft game division had never made profit until now, but I seriously doubt they re-coped the losses made before this....time will tell......