It really doesn't take a keen eye for news these days to spot the all-out PR blitz by team Blu-ray to convince the masses that the format war is over and Blu-ray has won.
ENGADGET: Toshiba not so impressed by Blu-ray's victory cries HD
An Iraq War veteran, Eddie Ray Routh, 25, has been charged in the killings of Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.
Beyond the Greater China release of The Flowers of War, Blu-ray Disc titles including the Joe Satriani concert film, Satchurated: Live in Montreal, and San Francisco Symphony at 100 have been premastered using Dolby TrueHD with advanced 96k upsampling.
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
ENGADGET: Sony says it's open to creating a single DVD standard
Each team put its own spin on the numbers, with HD DVD-backing Universal pointing out that despite a 5:1 advantage in hardware due to the PS3, disc sales are still nearly even, while Blu-ray supporter 20th Century Fox sees the format war as being in its "final phase, " and fence-straddling Warner merely noting that both formats are "selling well".
ENGADGET: Blu-ray surpasses HD DVD in disc sales for the first time HD
This will provide a large installed base and make Hollywood studios, which are expected to determine the outcome of the standards war, keener to back Blu-ray.
The format war between Sony's Blu-Ray and Toshiba's HD DVD has been a self-defeating mess, confusing consumers and slowing acceptance of DVDs boasting high-definition picture quality.
And that's exactly why HD DVD had to die: folks who should be trying to sell pricey video gear have had to waste their time walking buyers through HD DVD's format war with Sony's Blu-ray.
Not that we were ever that optimistic about peace breaking out in the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, the two rival high-def disc formats that are duking it out over which one is going to succeed the DVD, but you can forget about whatever Sony was saying in recent weeks about being open to burying the hatchet and working to develop a single standard.
Sir Ray points out that he survived not just the second world war but also five previous recessions and the advent of new media.
Offering a Blu-ray media player with its console at a time when the HD format war was in full swing was a pretty gutsy move on Sony's part -- one that paid off as HD DVD fell by the wayside.
Dr. CHARLES KUPCHAN (Council on Foreign Relations): I think her star has fallen in part because the Iraq war has gone very badly and it's difficult to find any ray of light.
Some analysts believe that while Blu-Ray may be winning the battle with HD DVD to be the next generation DVD format, neither will win the war, since future consumers will probably choose to download their movies and transport them on memory disk.
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