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Industry,
Blu-ray,
HD DVD,
Sony 
While some folks just can't
make up their mind, and other have already leaned
one way or
the other, a recent independent survey points to Sony's format being the one losing ground and interest, but we can't say we're surprised. Betamax,
ATRAC,
MiniDisc, and
UMDs were all crafted by Sony, and all fell (basically) flat before ever really catching on, and it seems the costly Blu-ray format may be headed for the same fate. Cymfony, a market influence analytics company, found that "positive discussions" about HD DVD were "46-percent higher" than talks about Blu-ray, with over twice as many post authors being "impressed with HD DVD" rather than "impressed with Blu-ray." A good deal of the negativity shown towards Blu-ray was attributed to Sony's "heavy handed" approach of
forcing Blu-ray upon PlayStation 3 owners, not to mention the notoriously
delayed (and
pricey) standalone players. Although it's still far
too early to tell which format will rise victorious (you know, since
peace talks have all but
ceased), there's no denying the high costs associated with both next-generation discs, but Sony's
track record with these proprietary ideas definitely doesn't bode well for it.
[Via
TechDigest]
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