19 February 2008, 22:57 | #61 |
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BTW, BD-Java is crap. My friend tested the top of the line Sony Elite BD player on a Di$ney title, which had so much animation that bogged down the menu selection and there was no way to skip.
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A interesting side note is that the actual hardware requirements for running java means that when $60 players arrive, modified firmwares can go really crazy. Think xbox media center, but blu-ray instead. Last edited by spiff; 19 February 2008 at 23:37. |
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When they find a way to DRM without you even knowing, they will. I never denied being a Sony fanboy, but what has that got to do with the price of fish, Blu-Ray is superior, anyone that actually wanted the inferior product to win has got to be drinking someones special cool-aid. If they live in America I can understand the cost argument as HD-DVD players have been heavily subsidised there, but not in the UK. |
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Sony fanboy, I have nothing else to say. I just hope that the right product has won and Sony don't try to screw the consumer, again. Btw how IS the backwards compatibility of UK PS3's?
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20 February 2008, 08:09 | #67 |
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...and just as importantly related to BD movie playback: who will win the elections?
btw: do you realize at all, that BD is NOT a Sony format? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association Sony was just one of the major players supporting it by integrating playback capabilities into the PS3 and thus helping it to achieve a strong market penetration. As Ian said HD DVD players are sold at the same premium prices with BD players in Europe so price was not a deciding factor, the real market economy and technology was. People buying these players are early adopters: 1, rich, buying any new toy 2, people who are technology aware, and for them the difference in storage capacity meant more than to the average consumer who will buy into it once it will be cheaper - which will happen NOW that HD DVD is killed off for good. 3, people with a PS3 or Xbox 360. For the 360 you had to buy an additional player which did cost roughly the same for the bargain price you would get a standalone player for in the US. Europe gets shafted as always, so no love for HD DVD on 360. PS3 has BD built-in. Which one do you think one would go for...? Even if you just play games, curiosity kicks in, you will buy a few movies. Microsoft clearly backed HD DVD to generate fragmentation in the market, and to become a saviour through its own digital download distribution. This is a major blow for Microsoft, although they won a one year headstart for their download service by sacrificing some hardware cost - which is nothing compared to the expected revenue generated from DLC. |
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Why not just admit you've lost the argument rather than trying to be clever. BC is just fine on mine. I couldn't give a crap if people buying one now cannot play PS2 games on it. Me being a Sony fanboy doesn't make me any less right or you any less wrong by the way. |
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I've never denied it. No shame in supporting a product through thick and thin, if there was no one would be here in the first place, would they?
There are a few people that I bet "love" their Microsoft noisebox360's which is really why they are so disappointed by blu-ray coming out on top. There is no logical reason for someone living in the UK to have wanted HD-DVD. It's not better and it's not cheaper either. |
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So long as you go for the 60gb version, its quite adept at backwards compatibility.
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you know, if they'd called ASBO's 'HD-DVDs' then they'd not be as popular as they are now too.
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The answer to this is one word: Pr0n.
Once the pr0n industry announced it was behind (oooerrr) Blu-Ray, it was all over (even more oooerrr). The Internet was built by pr0n and anything driven by pr0n is guaranteed to be successful. Merlin |
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I don't give a shit about HD movies as they cost more. I'll stick with DVD for couple of years (maybe more) and I'll make a move when I can by pack of 50 BD for less then 20 bucks. (how much I'm paying right now) I see the point of getting all of my AVI files on couple of disks... and being able to encode at 1400kbps video - 128kbps sound and have all season of series on one disk. |
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So basically, it shoves more pixels on the screen and the menus are a bit flashier. Whoopy-do. |
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I think it's a mercy the "war" has been a relatively brief one. In the interim I can't see it making too much difference in terms of multi-platform releases on 360/ps3 but in the short term at least it does provide a little extra marketing leverage to the ps3. And dvd playback did the ps2 no harm when it was launched either. |
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Well Michael Bay was probably right, Microsoft wanted iHD utilised, and were probably a bit miffed that the Blu-Ray group didn't take it.
Common misconception that people have that Blu-Ray is a solely Sony medium, when its not. Sony happened to be ONE of the many partners in the format. Now that Blu-Ray is the winner, it stands to reason that sales of the PS3 will go up as its currently the cheapest way to get Blu-Ray and a decent console. Only thing that will hamper that is Microsoft significantly dropping the price of the 360 and releasing a dirt cheap external Blu-Ray drive, but then that would then be Microsoft admitting that there is a digital format that they don't have a stranglehold on. |
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MS would not sell the player at a loss, so player addon + console will not be any cheaper than a PS3.
Rumour has it, MS are going to release a blu-ray addon as soon as May. |
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I see no point in it tbh for films. Standard DVD is cheap, cheerful, looks crisp, clear (Anchor Bay releases tend to be brilliant) and sound wise are fine to my ears with a decent set of cans on my head Another gimmick and not really a quantum leap in picture/sound. There will also be far less releases of older DVD releases too onto the Blu-Ray format and there's not a cat in hells chance I'm going to replace all my DVDs I'm waiting for the day when Isolinear optical chips are released with 2.15 kiloquads of data storage |
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There is a significant difference in picture quality. I was watching Blade Runner BD on 2 of my friend's TVs. One was a LCD that the picture quality looked better than the theatre screening, and the other was a projection TV that matched the theatre's quality. Overall, I saw enough of a quality jump between the DVD and HD format to think about accelerating my purchase of the new format.
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