Sony’s Playstation 3 is now the Best Choice for Blu-Ray
The high-definition DVD format wars have finally come to an end, with the Blu-Ray format edging out HD-DVD. With striking similarity to a U.S. political party nomination race, Blu-Ray won because the big industry players decided it would do a better job supporting their content. All parties are now relieved that the race is over, since the movie studios don’t have to decide which format to burn their movies onto, and consumers don’t have to decide which type of player to buy.
Predictably, though, the end of this competition has brought an end to the dropping prices. Most dedicated Blu-Ray players have spiked in price at least 20%, some much more. It may be some time before the competition between different brands of Blu-Ray player forces the price back down again.
For now, it seems that one of the factors in HD-DVD’s demise is still relevant, but in a different way: Sony’s popular game console, the Playstation 3, doubles as a high quality Blu-Ray disc player, and it isn’t participating in the price spike. It’s not much more expensive than the cheapest dedicated player, and it plays games, too.
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