Gaming Victory For Blu-ray

[Sean Mota]

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The Blu-Ray Association have said that games giants Electronic Arts and Vivendi would both support its DVD format. The next generation of DVDs will hold high-definition video and sound.

This offers incredible 3D-like quality of pictures which major Hollywood studios and games publishers are extremely keen to exploit in the coming year.

In a separate press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toshiba announced that DVD players for its technology would be on the market by the end of 2005.

 

[korsjs]

let's just hope all dvdplayers/game machines are compatible with both formats.

 

[cdru]

The funny thing is that EA and Vivendi could really care less what the medium is, as long as it holds data at a high enough capacity for what they want to store on it. From a software standpoint, it makes no difference what the storage medium is. Sure the cost of the medium and initial investment for the hardware to produce the medium is a factor, but the cost to upgrade to the new format likely is near the same no matter which next-gen DVD technology is used.

The only people that really care about what format is going to be the next greatest thing since CDs and DVDs are the manufacturers and patent holders.

 

[ShadowEKU]

The EA thing means NOTHING to me.... i am currently in a boycott of ea because of their monopolistic actions.

 

[Derwin0]

All EA cares about is what the PS3 and XBox 2 will use.
If PS3 uses blue-ray and XBox 2 uses HD-DVD, then EA will make PS3 games on blue-ray and XBox 2 games on HD-DVD.