Blu Ray vs. HD DVD
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- ETM0
HD-DVD does have some benefits. Despite the capacity issue, they are easier to make (vendors can modify existing DVD manufacturing equipment), are more resilient (data is 0.6mm below surface vs 0.1 on BluRay) and the format has more interactive features. Plus it's not proprietary Sony.
They also have created a 51GB 3 layer HD-DVD format.
Currently,I really don't care which format wins, as a good upconverting DVD player does the trick for now. But hey, for once maybe Sony will bring out a format that actually goes somewhere. I mean with a track record like... betamax, memory stick, digital 8, UMD etc. you be the judge :)
- kcstock0
Being Region free is going to hurt any proposed media. with all the HDCP and HDMI integration in everything, the last thing the studios would want is for you to be able to share or copy your DVD.
As far as being "Proprietary to Sony" I am not sure if I agree. Sony may have lead the development of the technology in blu-ray, but you dont have to buy a sony player to play the discs. nor do you have to watch it on a sony tv. the studios may have to pay sony some of the profit, but i dont really care about that. Some may argue that it will drive the prices of movies up, but i would retort that DVD's were $40 when they first relesed and the consumer drove the prices down. People wont pay over $24.99 for a movie.
there will also be the previously viewed rack at blockbuster since they too have adobted Blu-ray for in-store rentals, however i have not seen HD-DVD there.
The reality is HD content is here to stay. With the broadcast format changing next year to no longer support SD signals, ppl will be forced to get new HD sets or invest in a signal down scaler (which makes no sense to me). So why would the studios continue producing SD-DVD much longer after that, or Consumer Electronic companies making antiquated players. There will be a shift in the next 5-10 years, and durring that time HD1440 will start to rear its ugly head and the large scale implementation of Video on Demand will show up.
This will most likely be the last time we will see a physical media used to distribute movies, the next step is broadband distribution. But that is 2020 stuff.
For my 2 cents i think the format wars are rediculous. there is no reason a Blu-laser cannot read an HD-DVD disc. the only thing preventing my PS3 from ready HD-DVD is a CODEC. HD-DVD works on the same principle as DVD, multi-platter discs working with a RED laser. its just that HD-DVD's have more platters in them so they can hold more data. These companies need to stop posturing and adopt a format...
- ETM0
Regarding your quote:
"With the broadcast format changing next year to no longer support SD signals, ppl will be forced to get new HD sets or invest in a signal down scaler (which makes no sense to me)"You are WAY off mate LOL. SD TV is not going away. Analogue over the air SD signals are going the way of the Dodo, in favour of digital signals and freeing up UHF bandwidth for other devices. But SD will be here a long time. Do you really think they will FORCE HD, a technology still in early adoption, with so many barriers to entry on the populous? Plus, many studios are still not even HD equiped yet. I hope you didn't buy your HD TV and expect there to jump from a handfull to a few hundred HD channels next year... sorry.
- toe_knee0
its like poking a brain tumor with a fork
- Raniator0
At last...
- Jaline0
Toshiba is lowering its prices to battle Sony.
http://www.betanews.com/article/…WAR!
- Yeah, I just heard about that.
*cues up 'Eye of the Tiger'Raniator
- Yeah, I just heard about that.
- Randd0
you GEEK!
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- mrdobolina0
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/20…
It's over now.
- yep, just read it too
finally they gave updesignerror - the power of walmartakrokdesign
- it was over long before walmartdesignerror
- I'm just glad they went with the format that had more capacity.mrdobolina
- me too..designerror
- yeah, I am glad their decision actually made sense...finally.Jaline
- yep, just read it too
- Jaline0
Finally...an almost final decision.
- 7340
anyone know when they're planning to re-issue laserdisc?
... ive got all this porn, and well my laserdisc player broke about 15 years ago...
- Jaline0
"Sony selling their Blu-Ray factory to Toshiba"
http://www.rlslog.net/sony-selli…- I hope this puts toshiba bak on the map, they been doing terrible lately :)Meeklo
- sikma0
if this is true it just goes to show how little the average consumer knows about what goes on beyond closed doors.
- Ramanisky20
I don't like how movies look on Blu-Ray they're too sharp or something and they don't look cinematic at all (theres no noise or graininess to the film) ... they look like they were shot with a home video camera
my2cents
- that happens on dvd too btw..
stick with magnetic thenMeeklo - a movie on an HD channel looks great but the same movie on Blu-Ray looks weird to meRamanisky2
- that happens on dvd too btw..
- Jaline0
Blu-Ray prices go up:
http://www.rlslog.net/blu-ray-pr…"Within just the last two weeks, te average prices for LG’s BH200 player and Sharp’s BD-HP20U have climbed significantly. Every standlone Blu-ray-specific player in the chart above is now more expensive than it was at the beginning of the year. Ironically, although Blu-ray has been declared the winner, it is right now about the worst time to invest in a standalone Blu-ray player."
- PS3 is cheaper than most of themdesignerror
- Yup, It's probably the cheapest of all.Jaline
- Fariska0
normal market laws.