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Vetteman94 on 22 March 2010
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Grey21 said:
Vetteman94 said:
Grey21 said:
The difference between a Blu-Ray and a DVD are substantial but they are not issential. Having an old VCR wth its decreasing picture quality became unthinkable when the DVD market started to grow. Now there is nothing wrong with talking down on the Blu-Ray, infact many people think your cool when you say your saving money for important things. Saying that about the DVD would net you a dicussion about why the DVD is better then the VCR.

I think many families out there have no need or no momney for Blu-Ray + HDTV. Students and some rich folk can find the time or the need but Blu-Ray's width spread succes will have to wait a few more years. It could be that by then another (cheaper) competitor has shown himself to take the cake. Afterall none of Sony's formats has ever been a succes, it's like they are cursed.

Wow well for one,  that point has been brought up and discussed many times in this thread,  no need to keep bringing it up.

Also Blu-ray is not a Sony format, if anything its Panasonic as they own the most patents for Blu-ray.  Also  Sony had a part in making DVDs and CDs,  how did those formats turn out?


The way I understand it Sony lost big time with the DVD,  they had another format and it lost on multible fronts and they had to throw away years of research and accept the basics of the DVD. The CD isn't really a Sony format, I don't know the details but the way I remember it Sony played a part but most of the credits for the CD go to Philips. And I don't know what point has or hasnt been brought up because I'm not following this forum on a regular basis.

I don't know exactly how big Sony's part was in the DVD and CD but neither are truly from Sony. But you shouldn't forget the long list of formats that didn't make it, like the disc used by the old PSP. I'm not convinced by the Blu-Ray, it is slowly gaining marketshare but I think the majority of  the market has no plans to buy a Blu-Ray player at this point. By the time that the HDTV has spread to all four corners of the world then we are years further and nobody knows what other formats have seen the light at that point.

Well I think you understood wrong,  Sony actually refused to get involved in a format war at the time, and quickly adopted many of the ideas that Toshiba and others had come up with at the time for the DVD.  But Sony and Phillips both had ideas that have been implemented into DVD that are still used today, one being Dual Layer instead of Dual Sided as that is what their prototype had.   

And yes the CD is very much a Sony & Phillips product,  Sony actually showed the first prototypes for it,  followed by Phillips.  They then created a team of engineers together to come up with a standard,  which they did. 

If you want to get right down to it,  CD is more of Sony than Blu-ray is, and that is where your fault lies,  you are trying to line it up with Sony when it doesnt belong there. Are they apart of it,  Sure.   Are they a big part,  yes they are.   But are they the biggest?   NO, they are not.    Hell Microsoft has a part of Blu-ray, did you even know that?

Bringing up Sony's old failures for formats is childish, and doesnt have any bearing on how this will turn out. Phillips had the Laser Disc, but then shortly afterwards created the CD with Sony,  should we have sat back and said,  OMG there is no way I am going to trust them after that Laser Disc debacle!!!!!!   No because that is foolish.  UMD format for the PSP works for the PSP,  and while they had ambitions to broaden its use, they reeled back those ambitions when no one else picked up on it.