blu ray or hd? oh fook it have both
08 January 2008, 08:41 PM
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blu ray or hd? oh **** it have both
09 January 2008, 10:19 AM
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I think Blu Ray will win this one now that Warner Bros have also gone Blu Ray exclusively: BBC NEWS | Technology | Warner backs Sony Blu-ray format
I was surprised by this as I would have thought Microsoft would have plowed bags loads of money into HD to pursuade all the big studios to back them, but perhaps Blu Ray is simply better, it can hold more data for a start.
Id save my money and get a blu ray player, although that is a seriously nice unit and does upscaling as well (dammit, I just bought an upscaling Panasonic!! should have saved my money and got this)
It's worth waiting a few months, I believe Blu Ray will win out given recent events, and then all the manufacturers will start producing Blu ray players and prices will drop (except Toshiba, who will go down with their HD ship).
I was surprised by this as I would have thought Microsoft would have plowed bags loads of money into HD to pursuade all the big studios to back them, but perhaps Blu Ray is simply better, it can hold more data for a start.
Id save my money and get a blu ray player, although that is a seriously nice unit and does upscaling as well (dammit, I just bought an upscaling Panasonic!! should have saved my money and got this)
It's worth waiting a few months, I believe Blu Ray will win out given recent events, and then all the manufacturers will start producing Blu ray players and prices will drop (except Toshiba, who will go down with their HD ship).
09 January 2008, 10:57 AM
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personally i back HD-DVD as it is the better format and has set specific standards for itself but it actually likelyhood Blu-ray will win this fight! Until Blu-ray standardise there machines and format I will not be buying a blu-ray player.
09 January 2008, 11:30 AM
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Will we see the return of the video store spilt into two!
09 January 2008, 12:07 PM
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It is another VHS vs Betamax story, and Blu Ray has managed to pretty much become the VHS of the two.
There are still things to work out, and Toshiba (one of the largest embracers of HD) are remaining positive on the outside, but Blu ray will take it.
It wont be long before all the standards will be sorted out and it'll become the new standard.
Good excuse to get a PS3 I guess.
There are still things to work out, and Toshiba (one of the largest embracers of HD) are remaining positive on the outside, but Blu ray will take it.
It wont be long before all the standards will be sorted out and it'll become the new standard.
Good excuse to get a PS3 I guess.
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09 January 2008, 12:47 PM
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Again only my opinion but i think it is a daft idea to buy a PS3 for watching Blu-ray movies and my reason behind it is......It doesn't support the new audio formats apart from PCM to me makes no sense as the biggest improvement from SD-DVD and HD content is not the picture but infact the audio performance! Even my HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox sounds better than the PS3 as it at least outputs the HD audio sources at DTS which is a huge setup from Dolby Digital.
I actually can't think of any reason why Blu-ray should succeed over HD-DVD but the fact is it has!
I actually can't think of any reason why Blu-ray should succeed over HD-DVD but the fact is it has!
09 January 2008, 12:48 PM
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They are all doomed, who is going to mess about buying disks if you can download a HD quality film for the same or less, enviromentally its a winner, less landfill generated by no plastic being required (once the infrastructure is in), nobody making 2 round trips to the video shop. Obviously there will always be some form of portable media but I think its going to a back seat over the next ten years, look how Youtube took off and thats mainly videos of American teenagers hurting themselves.
09 January 2008, 12:51 PM
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The Times"...the final nails in the coffin of Toshiba’s HD DVD standard..."
"Backers of HD DVD point to the relative ease of producing the discs and the lower cost of building machines capable of reading them. Unlike previous format wars, particularly the Betamax v VHS skirmish in the 1980s, the Blu-ray v HD DVD war effectively has been decided in board-rooms, rather than in electronics showrooms."
"Backers of HD DVD point to the relative ease of producing the discs and the lower cost of building machines capable of reading them. Unlike previous format wars, particularly the Betamax v VHS skirmish in the 1980s, the Blu-ray v HD DVD war effectively has been decided in board-rooms, rather than in electronics showrooms."
09 January 2008, 02:13 PM
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09 January 2008, 02:23 PM
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Jacko has a point, the future is downloadable movies, and Microsoft have already begun moving towards this with IPTV.
That way you can download an HD movie/TV program and play it from the hard disk, much better than buying disks of any sort.
I didnt realise PS3 didnt play many of the sound formats, Ill wait till the battle is well and truly over and some good Blu Ray players are available, and then buy.
That way you can download an HD movie/TV program and play it from the hard disk, much better than buying disks of any sort.
I didnt realise PS3 didnt play many of the sound formats, Ill wait till the battle is well and truly over and some good Blu Ray players are available, and then buy.
09 January 2008, 02:28 PM
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Only if you want to watch 1 movie a month, UK ISP's have appallingly low bandwidth limits which means you can't keep downloading all these movies even if you wanted to.
09 January 2008, 02:30 PM
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People like to have the item in thier hands for something they want to buy - It just built into us.
Downloadable movies maybe a offered service, but it is year, probably decades away form being the "norm"
Until then, BluRay will do just fine.
The battle is over HD-DVD is dead as dead - And PS3 does play the formats, it just converts some to PCM, and yes it supports DTS. Other formats will be supported by firmware updates.
At the end of the day - does it give you quality surround sound? Yes.
09 January 2008, 03:16 PM
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it cannot convert anything to PCM as PCM is an uncompressed audio which some but not all Blu-ray disks use. As for outputting other HD formats to DTS it does not as of yet do this.
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