IGN: Why DVD's better than Blu-Ray....

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Ascended_Saiyan3 said:

sinha said:

I buy more movies than anyone I know, and I have around 350 DVDs and only 4 Blu-rays.
The main problem is I can only play Blu-rays on my PS3, whereas I can watch DVDs on any of the 10 DVD players around my house, and with friends and relatives, none of whom have PS3s.

If Blu-ray is going to become the next standard, the price of Blu-ray players needs to reach the $100 range before digital downloads catch on. It will be interesting to see who wins that race.   Personally, I doubt that will happen, so I think some form of digital downloads will be the next standard.  Blu-rays will still exist even if that happens, but then so did LaserDisc, Betamax, UMD, etc.

It was the same with DVD.  These are the same things brought up with EVERY major packaged movie successor (just check the links I provided, earlier in this thread, to VHS vs. DVD websites).

BTW, UMD is not a movie standard meant to  take over DVD or anything.  It's just the type of disc that PSP games and movies use.  In other words, UMD is NOT a movie standard...period.  Also, Laserdiscs and Betamax doesn't exist.  UMD will exist as long as the PSP does (movies are still put on UMD).

 

 

Laser disc production didn't stop until this year, 2009. The first Laserdisc came out in 1979, I think.

 

And I do believe that Sony wanted UMD to become the new portable standard for movies and media. They tried to use the PSP as the trojan horse for the medium, just as they've tried to do with the PS3 and blu-ray. Don't kid yourself. It just failed, much like their superior Betamax got wiped out by VHS.