Where do you stand?
Where do you stand?
difficult one. i like bluray for data storage because of its higher capacity in multiple layers. But its DRM seems a bit ott.
I have a feeling both will continue long term and we will see dual players in the not too distand future.
there's no button for Betamax...
both taking off is possible in theory - but i dont think the licencing folk will let it happen.
i think ps3 getting a blue-ray player into a vast number of homes will be a deciding factor. i dont think the improvement over dvd will encourage most people to invest in the hardware (sure, some people will invest, but a large number of average joe's wont care) - however if they already have the hardware for another reason (1 million ps3s per month being produced creates a pretty big user base in 2 years) then they may be willing to pay the little extra over dvd prices for the increase in quality..
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Neither, i want an industry standard or i'm not buying.
I won't touch either till someone has lost...
TiG
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Thats exactly how I feel.Originally Posted by TiG
I dont want to waste my money on two players to find out 6 months later they are pulling it out of production.
I think Sony will win the battle, they have an edge with the PS3 and the amount of film studios they own.
Personally I think that HD-DVD will win the battle. The average consumer already knows and trusts the "DVD" tag so seeing HD infront of it will probably not be as daunting to them as a whole new format; and at the end of the day, the consumer decides who wins or not.
I'll wait until Pioneer/Denon make a player that will play both. If they don't release such a device for "licensing issues" then I'll skip both.
im gonna love the prices for a Blu Ray writer....
liek the time when DVD-RW's where around £100+
Sony dont really have a good track record on media formats, Betamax and Mini Disc are hardly what you would call massive sucess stories.
This.Originally Posted by TiG
It doesn't matter about the tech - it's all down to marketing, and people already know what DVD is, and most people have heard the phrase 'HD' being thrown around already too.
Depends how you look at it, they also co-founded the Compact Disc with Philips and were heavily instrumental in the sucess of the DVD format.Originally Posted by TheBuZZard
Mini Disc is still very widely used in a number of industries, and is still widely used as a consumer device in Japan, although now rapidly being replaced by flash and hdd music players.
DRM has nothing to do with any of it, both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are using AACS.
I personally think Blu-Ray will have the legs on it (it not only supports dual layer discs, but can support multiple layers - TDK has already produced 4 layer prototype discs capable of storing 100GB of data), to last until the next, next-gen format arrives commercially in ten or so years time (holographic data storage - wiki HVD ).
Given the sheer bulk that the PS3 *will* sell, and the fact that they've got the adult entertainment industry with them this time (one of the things that crippled betamax, along with the unwillingness to licence the tech out to 3rd parties), I honestly can't see Blu-Ray failing.
(late edit due to being busy at work - how dare they! )
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Im going for HD-DVD will support it with the new external optical device.
I hope you guys won't consider this as thread stealage but what I'm more concerned about is the lifespan of DVDs/DVD-A and SACDs. Personally I think that they will prevail for a good 5- 10 years at least considering that you can STILL buy movies on VHS. I'm not sure if I will be jumping on the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray bandwagon any time soon, but then again they need to come out first and it'll take at least a year after release for decent releases to follow....
VHS isn't exactly "prevailing" at the moment is it? Yes its true that you can still buy things on VHS but DVD's took over the market very quickly once they became affordable.
Personally i think DVDs will be around for a long time to come, there are a lot of times you just don't need HD disks. I also expect the HD disks to be released at the same time as regular DVDs as the premium version, the market is big enough to handle SD and HD formats.
Put it this way, DVDs have all the features that most consumers want: Random access, bonus material, surround sound, sharp picture (compaired to VHS and TV), reliability and durability, size/weight, etc. You never know, regular DVDs might even outlast the current HiDef formats, stranger things have happened.
As for SVS-A and SACD, i can't see them gaining any more popularity than they already do. The average consumer has poved that they do not care about audio quality with their embracing of poor quality downloads.
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