News Sony Blu-Ray discs won't kill analogue

That's pretty one-sided, tbh. And it's also inaccurate:

You're right that most people won't look beyond capacity. Truth be told, the eventual winner in the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD contest will be decided not by tech-savvy people like you and me, but by the average consumer. And the average consumer won't even get as far as looking at the technical specs of the disks - his train of thought will be: (a) which player can I afford, (b) which offers a bigger / wider selection of movies that I am interested in watching, and (c) how expensive are the disks? This is why PS3 is such a boon for Blu-Ray - if they have anything like the success with PS3 that they had with PS2, that's a huge installed base of users ready to start buying Blu-Ray movies, which in turn will entice more studios to produce Blu-Ray movies, which in turn will encourage more people to buy a Blu-Ray player over an HD-DVD player.

 

Its the fact that the files will be so huge that for a decent sized file you would have to compress it so much that it almost wouldnt be worth it. I never said nobody will try it.

 

I don't know about you but for most people the real purpose of these next generations optical mediums is HD films. The BluRay vs HD DVD capacity is really a argument that can go either way, it's safe to say that the difference is minute at best.
But let me remind you Sony owns two major film studios/distribution groups. MGM and Sony Pictures Classics which means Sony holds exclusive rights to an almost limitless supply of films both classics and future releases, some of which are a must own for any film buff. Which means so long as Sony exists those films will NEVER be released on HD DVD and to add insult to injury Sony still produces films through MGM and Sony Pictures every year not to mention Sony Picture Classics purchases both foriegn and indie hits yearly to expand their already massive library. All these films will be BluRay exclusive!
So right away before the wars have even begun HD DVD is at a handy-cap, because at least 20 percent of hollywoods important titles will not be coming for HD DVD. For any film buff who intends to build up a decent HD film collection this will be a huge deterring factor in adopting to Toshiba's format.
Unless Toshiba convinces Microsoft to buy up WB and Viacom, HD DVD is destined for failure.
This isn't just my personal opinion but it's cold hard facts, I have no hatred towards Toshiba, in fact I kinda feel bad for them for not thinking things through before going up against a media giant like Sony. But hey Toshiba always has there new SED TVs to fall back on.

 

Right, but I did say NATIVE codec support.

 

Yeah, and you were wrong - "all Blu-ray players and recorders will have to support playback of these video codecs" pretty much means that those codecs are natively supported by Blu-ray, unless you can explain the distinction to me.

 

Hmmm... maybe they changed their mind and they're supporting MPEG4 as well as MPEG2. Here's where I heard the announcement from: GamesIndustry.biz. Just search blu-ray and you'll find the article. But looking at Blu-Ray website, it seems you're right.