Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
Obviously, the PS3 is having some effect, but I also think that the release schedule has begun to swing in Blu-ray's favor. As mentioned earlier, 19 of the top 20 DVD titles from 2006 have already come out on Blu-ray or have already been announced for Blu-ray. IMO, that's a stunning stat and does not bode well for HD-DVD. Looks like that Blu-ray Association declaration of victory at CES, which I thought was nothing more than premature and arrogant boasting, might turn out to be an accurate reflection of market reality.
It really begs the question, was it a bad idea of putting Blu-ray in the PS3. There a few ways to look at this. From a gaming side of it, Blu-ray offers little or no advantage over HD-DVD, it just increases the production costs to make the playstation as well as the games, thus increasing the cost of the playstation, and decreasing the volume of games available.

From the Blu-Ray player side of it, it was very possibly the best idea that sony had. By installing the blu-ray on the playstation, it really increased the awareness of blu-ray. And as Woochifer stated, that the PS3 has significantly increased the number of blu-ray players on the market. The PS3 has taken a lot of heat for having the blu-ray player installed in it. But in Doing so it has risen the awareness of blu-ray to pop idol status, while the HD-DVD still hides in the shadow playing the role of the indie band just waiting and hoping for thier chance. it really does utilize the saying that even bad publicity is still publicity. And that something that HD-DVD has totally missed out on, the publicity.

There are probably tons of factors out there, such as having HD-DVD still being strongly associated with standard DVD. Were as blu-ray is still just as similiar, but the name difference starts to associate blu-ray as a whole new format, with nothing like it available. where as in actual fact Blu-ray and HD-DVD aren't to dissamiliar, sure there are differences but there are more similarities than differences. My HD-DVD comparison can be compared to the next Toyota Supercar to compete with ferrari's (yes its just a concept but stay with me) no matter how it stacks up to the ferrari's and lambo's its still just a toyota, and HD-DVD is still just DVD.