A news story over at Yahoo caught my eye this morning, claiming that the Blu-Ray format is going to win the format war.
Forrester Research on Wednesday declared Blu-Ray…as the winner in an increasingly heated battle over next-generation DVD technology…
… it is now clear to Forrester that the Sony-led Blu-ray format will win,” said Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler in a report.
Strangely there’s not much to really back this up, however personally I do agree, they are set to have the most players in homes by the middle of next year and that’s what counts. Bums on seats. The other thing that makes me think that this might be a decent report is the comment regarding our buy in:
“Unless the HD-DVD group abandons the field, it will be another two years before consumers are confident enough of the winner to think about buying a new format DVD player. In the meantime, they will expand their video on-demand, downloadable video, and Internet viewing habits,” he said.
Spot on. I think we’ve seen that from all the comments throughout the posts about the format war. People are going to wait. However Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will still get into homes through stealth – PC’s, XBox’s and PS3’s.
