The latest spin by the Masters of FUD - The BDA

[r.jones1116]

Blu-ray boss: HD DVD is not good enough - News - Tech.co.uk

 

[teachsac]

Saw that. Total FUD. Your link doesn't work. Try this one.

Blu-ray boss: HD DVD is not good enough - News - Tech.co.uk

S~

 

[r.jones1116]

Thanks for fixing it.

 

[diogen]

It just shows that Andy Parsons is the only guy in the BD camp worth reading, others probably pick their talking points from Bill Hunt... and screw up presenting them.

BTW, Andy Parsons was the only person realizing, that the moment AACS on HD was broken, BD compromise will follow in a matter of days (CES 2007 happened between those two events). The rest of the BD executive gang already celebrated BD's security superiority...

Diogen.

 

[CochiseGuy]

Blu-ray boss: HD DVD is not good enough - News - Tech.co.uk

The majority of Hollywood studios have chosen Blu-ray not because we have asked them to - we let them make up their own mind. They choose Blu-ray because it is the superior format," Simonis said.

Was this statement before or after Disney said "No Comment" to the question had any of the studios received "incentives" to release on Blu-ray?

"For Disney to do the movie Cars in HD including the interactivity, a 50GB disc is needed. Pirates Of The Caribbean you couldn't do on an HD DVD disc. You'd have to have multiple discs. How can that be a good thing?

"Masters of FUD"? Naw, not even a "C" effort - to easily debunked:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - 143 Minutes
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 150 Minutes
King Kong (HD DVD) - 187 Minutes
Casino (HD DVD) - 179 Minutes

All rated 4 Stars at HighDefDigest.com.
So, does Universal know something about High Def encoding that Disney doesn't?

But this FUD From the BDA is a Masterpiece!

IFA 2007: Blu-ray Conference = Kicking Ass, Putting people to sleep.

Today at IFA press day, the BDA gave a presentation running through the status of operations along with studio bigshots from Disney, Warner Bros and Fox. Here's the rundown on what they said:

Butt Kickings
- Blu-ray holds 90% market share in Japan for both movies and hardware
- In US Blu-ray has 63% standalone unit market share and over 66% of hi-def disc sales
- 70% of hi-def sales in Europe are Blu-ray with 3:1 ratio over HD DVD

Wait! Blu-ray has 63% of the standalone market in the U.S.! This one really had me scratching my head. It was just a few weeks ago that Video Business reported -

According to NPD Group, HD DVD set-tops dominated the market in the second quarter, with a 61% market share, compared to 36% for Blu-ray.

How did the standalone market turn Blu over night????
- Until an insider on the AVSForum revealed that number is based on sales revenue, not unit sales.

Yep, with BD players costing up to twice as much HD DVD players, HD DVD ain't never going to win the standalone player race when they count overall revenue instead of actual units.

Now that is a Master of FUD.

 

[JoeSp]

What differance does it make if Disney took money to support BD? You sure seemed to like it when Paramont and Dreamworks took money to become HD-DVD exclusive. Hummm?

And don't look now but on the hardware side BD standalone players are catching up and passing HD players in sales in many retailers accross the US. On top of that there are more BD manufactures coming to market with newer, lower cost and more featured players this XMAS. Check out my post in the BD section on BD annoucements from the IFA.

 

[tnsprin]

It just shows that Andy Parsons is the only guy in the BD camp worth reading, others probably pick their talking points from Bill Hunt... and screw up presenting them.

BTW, Andy Parsons was the only person realizing, that the moment AACS on HD was broken, BD compromise will follow in a matter of days (CES 2007 happened between those two events). The rest of the BD executive gang already celebrated BD's security superiority...

Diogen.

AACS actually was never broken. It was pretty much an open secrity definition without secrets. What was broken was the way that first HD and then Blu-Ray were storing the keys. I hate to say it but they should not allow them to go into ordinary (i.e. PC) memory, doing them in hardened security chips.

 

[diogen]

AACS actually was never broken. It was pretty much an open secrity definition without secrets. What was broken was the way that first HD and then Blu-Ray were storing the keys.

True.
Its implementation in HD/BD was broken.

Diogen.