HD and the Future of Home Entertainment: A Love Story

ScarlettFever · #1 (**permalink**) 08-24-2006, 06:34 PM

Hiddenwires.co.uk recaps a recent study done by Screen Digest: "HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc and the future of home entertainment: a strategic analysis"

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Broadly speaking, Screen Digest believes that there are 4 possible outcomes to the format battle:

The HD DVD format achieves a dominant market position and supporters of the Blu-ray Disc format switch their allegiance to that format.
The Blu-ray Disc format achieves a dominant market position and supporters of the HD DVD format switch their allegiance to that format.
Neither format achieves a 'knock-out' position of market dominance and both coexist until combi-format solutions become cost-effective and eventually dominate, mirroring the current market for recordable DVDs
Both formats 'lose' in the sense that neither is successful enough to achieve mass consumer adoption, resulting in a situation comparable to that of the battle between 'next generation' audio formats SACD and DVD Audio.

The Full Monty...

Buy the report here

With high definition films on the rise and the sales of camcorders on the up as well, I don't see how the move to high definition will not happen. There are tons of filmmakers waiting to transfer their materials to HD disks and tons of festivals now screening in HD.

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