The next-generation optical format wars have begun, and so far the most common response from consumers is a collective yawn. Market research firm Forrester believes that those YAWNS will ultimately translate into a victory for Blu-ray down the road, but with adoption of either next-gen format moving at a glacial pace in the near term.

Wouldn't alot of people be switching to Blue ray then? So this means DvD players are worthless?
It makes me mad

Read the rest
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061010-7947.htmlUmm that article is 1½ years old. The format war is over, Blue-ray won. Hats off to Sony, shipping the PlayStation 3 with BD support was a stroke of genius. They have now been redeemed for the whole Betamax fiasco.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/official-hd-dvd-dead-and-buried-format-war-is-over/

Is DVD worthless? No, movies will still come out on DVDs for a foreseeable future and Blue-ray players can still play your DVD movies.
But as more people buy HD TVs they'll want to watch movies in HD as well. So when the market for DVD movies is no longer profitable the DVD format will die.
Why is this making you mad? Did you really think the DVD format would never be replaced? Ever heard of VHS (or Betamax for that matter)?

wait what really?LOL!
where ya been wefro? KEEPING up with DeerPark will definetely broaden your scope of knowledge...UMMM this is embarrassing..

I thought there was another format wars?

ok im confusedNope, no more format wars for the time being.
At least not on the "replacement for DVD" front.
But we can probably look forward to the "replacement for blue-ray" war. How much data can you fit on a Blu-ray disc?


A single-layer disc can hold 25GB.
A dual-layer disc can hold 50GB.

To ensure that the Blu-ray Disc format is easily extendable (future-proof) it also includes support for multi-layer discs, which should allow the storage capacity to be increased to 100GB-200GB (25GB per layer) in the future simply by adding more layers to the discs.

What's next after the Blu-ray Disc???
Black-Ray disc?How much will it be, much larger than Tera?
I cant imagine it bluray disc will probably be the last disc. It seems everything's moving toward solid state. I wonder when 3d media will present itself...Although I agree with you Michael about discs being eliminated I'm with the crowd that thinks storage medium for movies (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) will be replaced by either streaming media or direct downloads. Although very likely that the storage used to store those downloads would be some type of solid state medium.

I think it's still a possibility that we could see HVD. Which is capable of 3.9TB a disc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_DiscDVD ftw. Nobody can afford to make bootleg blu-rays. To give you an idea, the cheapest blu-ray burner is $427 on tiger. Then there's the price of the discs themselves.Actually the cheapest blu-ray and most recommended is the PS3, which I believe is around $400 now. Still that's pretty expensive when compared to DVD. Discs are also a lot more expensive around $25-$30 a disc. But I'm pretty sure they are already bootlegging discs.lol... it would almost be cheaper to PUT the movies on a hard drive. With the prices of hard disk drives. It would absolutely be cheaper than Blu-ray. That's why I always told people who asked me who I thought would win the high-def disc war I assumed it would of been HD DVD, because their players were a lot cheaper and usually it's the more affordable solution that ends up winning. I think if they would of got more support from the movie industry they would of won too.Out of the explanations for demise of HD-DVD I've read I agree most with the following.
1) HD-DVD LACKED a console that could bring it in to people's homes. It is a lot easier to get people to hop on board with format if the new drive is built in to the console, than if people have to buy a costly extra drive just to watch HD movies. So if the Xbox 360 had shipped with an integrated HD-DVD drive, things might have looked differently.
2) HD-DVD was out DRMed by Blue-ray. While they share the same basic copy protection, Sony added an extra layer of protection to Blue-ray. This meant HD-DVD was the first format of the two to be broken. So movie studios might have favored Blue-ray because it seemed like the most secure format. The second layer of protection on Blue-ray have later been broken so in the end the extra layer only provided minimal extra protection.