Well for Christmas this year I received an Xbox360 with an HD DVD Player. I was thrilled that I could not watch movies in full 1080p on my new TV, we went out and bought many HD DVD’s. I am still very happy with my player. I love the quality. But with all the moves BlueRay has made since Christmas, I now wonder what the life of my HD DVD player is.

I have been a proponent of HD DVD winning based simply on the fact that with identical video quality, that the winner would go to the format which can make the media cheapest to make and which format would have devices cheap enough to encourage people to buy. Currently, HD DVD is winning this battle. However with the latest news that Warner Brothers and the Porn industry have moved to BlueRay, that put a scar on my theory. But now, according to Tech.co.uk :

“Cost savings come from a simpler manufacturing process that will yield dividends in mass production, while other features include the ability to handle dual-layer BDs and disks with organic dye in the recording layers. Organic disks can be churned out from existing DVD production lines, so it’s a win-win situation here. “

Well now BlueRay will be able to make the media cheaper and this will also drive the cost of BlueRay player. To what extent, this is not known. What is known though is HD DVD better come out with something, and it better be big, everybody is jumping on the BlueRay wagon right now. And I am not talking like just a little more than before. I am talking like nearly 95% of the sales after the announcement have gone in BlueRays direction.

Will this be the first “Sony made” format that wins the popularity battle? I am not calling the time of death of HD DVD quite yet, but I think HD DVD has gone to the hospital with heart problems.