| DirtyP2002 said: turkish did not get the point. Of course BluRay was not available I was talking about the time before BluRay, nobody wanted it. And the jump from VHS to DVD was way more than the better picture. The picture was MUCH better (bigger jump than DVD to BluRay). The main reason was that it was completly digital, you could skip chapters, had bonus material, WAY better sound and a menu. All this was not available with VHS. The jump now is much smaller. Better picture (not that big of a jump), better sound (even smaller jump) and some gimmick-features only hardcore fans care about. |
The AVS forum definitely wanted blu-ray and hd-dvd. There was a heated format war at the time starting years before the release of either.
DVD became popular so quickly bevause of it's convenience, rather then the better pq. The jump from VHS to DVD was not bigger then DVD to Blu-ray. uncompressed 240p to compressed 480p is a smaller jump then 480p to 1080p. The jump from Laserdisc to DVD was even smaller. Dvd was a godsend for rentals, no more rewinding, no more half broken tapes.
It's that convenience that's making digital distribution so popular so quickly. People are willing to take a hit in quality and features for the ease of digital distribution. Netflix operates at 0.7 mbps standard (0.3 GB/hr), that's less then 1/5th of dvd... Basically going back to VHS functuonality and quality :/ Picture quality has nothing to do with where the masses go unfortunately.
