Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Buy an HD-DVD Player

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> This time I should point out that it's not really Sony against the rest 
> of the world to the extent that it was during the Betamax wars. I have 
> no idea who is going to win yet, which is why I have decided not to try 
> and guess right, even for a $99 player. By this time next year, I'm 
> guessing this will have all been sorted out.


You're right.  The Blu-ray group started with nine leading electronic 
companies: Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, 
Sharp, Samsung and Sony; but other companies signed on including Apple, 
TDK, Dell, Hewlett Packard, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. and 
Universal Music Group. At the moment there are more than 250 members and 
supporters of the Association.

So history is not repeating itself to the degree that I thought it was.

The DVD Forum has 195 registered members, but note that some of the 
founding members of the DVD Forum are the same as the founding members of 
the Blu-ray Association.

It seems that right now the two formats are running neck and neck in terms 
of number of discs released -- about 325 discs for each type.

Mike

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