Hand me another nail, please.
Looks like Sony won one this time. Guess this time they paid off a lot of companies (Warner.....) to win the battle, though perhaps still nursing the pain from the Betamax loss. May be tomorrow another format will zoom up, making BR absolete.
Warner made 63 million dollars more on Blu-ray over hd dvd in 07 with 25 titles missing from the Blu side including The Matrix, V for Vendetta and Batman Begins.
Warner also said it was cheaper to produce Blu-ray encodes because of the higher bit ratres and GB.
They also said they were not paid off, and with the above statements, they didn't need to be.
That's Best Buy, Netflix and Wallmart picking Blu in one week following at least 15 other studios to go Blu only after Warner.
Apparently the entire industry knows that Blu was selling better and has more potential., and evidently Blockbuster figured it out first.