Saturday, May 12, 2007

Iger Makes Stronger Commitment to Blu-Ray

Disney CEO Bob Iger made a stronger exclusive commitment to the Blu-Ray format in his conference call to analysts this week.

We made our bed with Blu-ray because we believed more in that format for a variety of reasons; some technical in nature, some due to the fact that it simply had broader support from a variety of industries, notably the motion picture studios but also what I’ll call the consumer electronics and the tech industry.


I think he is underestimating one important aspect of this whole issue - the porn industry that most have "credited" as the determining factor in the Betamax versus VHS battle. Rumor has it that both Disney and SONY has prohibited Blu-Ray disk production plants to produce adult high-def DVDs. The adult industry has not come out yet with a strong support of either format, but when they do, this could easily be the "swing vote" in the Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD format.

As for us, we are still waiting - waiting for the combo player to come down in price. That way, we won't care who wins! :)

Zz.

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