Right now, at this very second, yes it does. The more support you have, the more likely it'll stay around several years from now. Was this not a key factor in Betamax/VHS?
The word "technically" in the phrase "technically speaking" is key. Choosing a format that will be around is obviously important, but this is a discussion about which format is superior. IE: which "deserves" to win. Not which is more likely to.
Assuming Blu-Ray is more likely to come out on top (and I'm not necessarily agreeing with you there), I'd say that would make it "safer," not "superior."
Also, not to belabor the point, but you didn't answer my question as to whether or not you have to pay for these sorts of things on your own. I don't mean to pry into your personal business, but it's directly relevant to the conversation, as price is (rightfully) a major contributing factor for many consumers.
You can only go SO far. DVDs are no bigger then 8.5 GB and have been since they stated using them. HD-DVDs have a max capacity of 50GB, while Blu-Ray has a max of 100GB. Storage space may not be important now, but it sure will be later down the road.
Sure. But I take it for granted that both will undergo plenty of changes, and an increase in storage space for both seems pretty inevitable. Various types of innovation can come in stops and starts, but ever-increasing disk space is a constant in virtually every medium.
Because of two reasons that I mentioned earlier; one, not everyone is educated about the two formats and two, not everyone cares about those features.
I'm not sure how the word "everyone" snuck its way in there; of course not
everyone cares about them. But I'm sure some people do, and I'd wager it's a significant number of people. Do you have any basis to claim otherwise, or are you guessing??
Honestly, they're not THAT important. If they were, HD-DVD would be leading Blu-Ray by a mile.
But earlier you said that people weren't educated about the two formats. If they're not educated about them, then sales thus far can't be used as a barometer for what they want. They can't genuinely prefer something when they don't really know what their options are, so they can't both be true.
Anyway, I'm not sure how important "THAT important" is. I think they're significant. I think people like cool features (always a safe bet), and HD-DVD has had them for quite awhile now. I also think that, were the shoe on the other format, you'd be hammering it home as another point in Blu-Ray's favor.
When you can rub the bottom of your disk with steel wool and still play it, it's a hell of an extra.
Not unless there's some kind of tangible benefit to rubbing your disks with steel wool. But if you're the kind of person who cares less about product quality and more about impressing people, then yeah, great extra. Say, you wouldn't want to buy some Ginsu knives, would you? They can cut through your shoes.
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