Gizmodo Buzz Index: The most accurate graphs since cavemen first scratched pie charts into the walls of French caves. The upcoming high-definition format war is heating up, with Sony and company backing the Blu-Ray format (Sony confirmed yesterday – to no one’s surprise – that the Playstation 3 would in fact use Blu-Ray discs), while NEC and Toshiba (and Microsoft?) is pushing the competeting HD-DVD standard. There’s not a clear winner yet – the standards are just dipping a toe in the market at the moment – but for now, it looks like Blu-Ray is winning the GBI by a large margin. HD-DVD really needs a major product backing it now. How about Xbox 2?
https://gizmodo.com/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray-the-saga-continues-20663
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Update: Reader Damian Roskill makes a good point that both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are planning to use Microsoft’s hi-def codec, so Big M is (rightly) hedging its bets at the moments. In a way, that makes the format choice of the Xbox 2 even more interesting.
