[Invader Tails]

Before I start, this article explains most of it.

As most people with brains know, Sony is planning to use the Blu-Ray disc on their PS3, making it the only console to use the next media storage. As Sway said earlier, Sony and Toshiba were in talks to make only one Media storage disc, but that is now cancelled, as Sony would rather push out the PS3 and not let Nintendo and Microsoft gain ground. The point I'm trying to make, but may not be clear, is that if HD-DVD wins the media storage war, will PS3 also fall with the Blu-ray discs?

First of all, new movies would not be playable on PS3, at least in better quality. Well, thats all I actually thought about. Anyway, what are your thoughts,

And sorry if Sway posted this earlier, because his topic titles confuse me.

[Sway]

Well to be honest either format should have plenty of space for games and high definition movies. So that's really a moot point in the format wars. It sounds nice to say Blu-Ray has x amount of extra space, but there's no way our hardware can take advantage of it currently, and holographic discs should blow these formats out of the water when the time comes when we do need that much space. Blu-Ray's big advantage would probably be less discs for TV seasons. Even then, maybe not, because the algorithms used to compress video has been improved tenfold since DVD. Games are the same way. Even Half-Life 2, probably our most resource-sucking game to date, uses significantly less than one dual-layer DVD worth of space. That's right, the game fits on a DVD with space to spare.

Say HD-DVD wins the format war. Sony shouldn't be affected too much. By the time there is a clear winner, the PS3 will already be in millions of homes, and HD-DVD players should be relatively cheap at that time. In other words, by the time we found out HD-DVD was VHS and Blu-Ray was BetaMax, the PS3 would have such market penetration it wouldn't make a difference. Want to play your movies? Buy a player. The same goes for Blu-Ray vs. the Xbox 360.

In my opinion, both of these formats are going to be supported very well for quite a while, with huge names behind them on either side. Dual-format players should be common within a short timeframe, and adapter drives could be made for the next-gen systems anyway. It'll all be okay.