Optical HD Battle May Be Over: HD DVD Wins

Back in August of 2005 we did know that HD DVD, which used DVD production technology, would be easier to bring to market but it simply did not seem reasonable that Sony would put their PlayStation franchise at risk for anything but a technology they were absolutely certain they could bring to market on time. That turned out to be incorrect. The problems with Blu-Ray have created extreme cost and execution problems for Sony and now their premier division (instead of being the profit center for Sony) is predicting they will take a $1.5B loss next year largely resulting from this decision.

This is a very straight forward article that brings up a lot of interesting points. It does look like HD-DVD does have the extreme advantage. As for consumers, they are virtually the “same”, so whatever one is easier and more sensible to get will be the winner.