Fox back Blu-Ray

[Nick]

The co-chairman of Fox, James Gianopulos, is putting his money on Blu-Ray...

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[Twigman]

Blue laser/leds are expensive atm, but im sure by the time PS3 (i hear its meant to have blu-ray?) comes out and people start mass producing them then it will just get cheaper.

[smtkr]

All content producers are going to back whichever has the most restrictive DRM. According to most /. posts, this is BR

[Dooms]

It does look like majourity is backing blue ray but there are some majour people behing HD DVD (isnt Microsoft one of them?)

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Yes MS is one of them.Im personaly n favour of Blue-ray due to its large capacity.You could fit a Game trilogy in one disk, i.e. PGR 1,2 and 3

[autopilot]

Up until now i have avioded most of the Blu-Ray Vs HD-DVD stuff, the thought of another format war just bores me. I have to say, from the little i know, I feel BluRay may emerge the winner. But it's early days and i am a little worried about the reports of BluRay disks being extremly easy to damage due to the very thin coating they have had to use. Some people have suggested that they are much easier to damage then current CD's/DVD's. And with a new era of Nazi DRM on the horizon, is anyone else not getting particually excited about all this?

I just hope the competition between to two will force prices down. These things are going to be insanely expensive for the first couple of years.

[directhex]

blu-ray has nazi drm, is expensive to produce, and is easily damaged - but is being released first. and i never thought i'd say that microsoft's favoured format was the one with the least restriction

we'll see how betamax^Wblu-ray fares in the marketplace

personally, i'm not interested until one or t'other can be played back in my linux pcs

[Deadlight]

And the advantages of BR are - larger capacity. Am I the only one who fails to get excited about this? What will it mean to the gamesa industry - bigger games? Remember, the bigger the game, the more it costs and the longer it takes. Perhaps higher-resolution textures, and better quality audio, sure, but even so...

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Yea, They need to device a new way in making games faster! Like someone said here, the more larger a game is, the more time it takes to develop and nowadays games are becoming larger by itself i.e. gta 3, gta vc and gta sa. a blue ray disk could probably enable developers to implement a whole country(England?) for future gta games

[Deadlight]

Err...I think youu've kind of missed the point there matey. Think how long it'd take to crowbar a whole country into a game; how many programmers, graphic artists etc. that would need. The costs involved! Don't think so, somehow.

[directhex]

bear in mind that the real capacity difference between BR and HD-DVD isn't that large. it's not as if people exploit the full space on a DVD yet anyway

it'll be the same as when games moved from floppy to CD - same size game, hours more crappy video