| MikeB said: People who want to play PS3 games but aren't interested in high definition movies are forced to buy a Blu-ray drive that they do not need because a common DVD drive would be sufficient for games. (I know Sony-affine developers are claiming the opposite, but what else should they do? Telling people that Blu-ray is not necessary at all for their game wouldn't be very smart.) Well launch games like Motorstorm, Resistance and Oblivion (the three games I bought) all use well beyond the storage capacity of DVDs. I don't have to read about what developers have to say, I can figure this one out myself. |
Well, we do not know how many duplicate files (to speed up loading times) and dummy files are on those discs and what kind of compression is used (if at all). Since I cannot provide any facts (I don't have a PS3), I won't try to convince you any further, but I still think a basic DVD drive would have been sufficient.
| MikeB said: Nevertheless the DVD Forum has voted HD DVD to be the high definition successor of the standard DVD. The DVD Consortium as it was originally called included the following founding members: * Hitachi, Ltd. Blu-Ray * Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. Blu-Ray * Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Blu-Ray * Pioneer Electronic Corporation Blu-Ray * Royal Philips Electronics N.V. Blu-Ray * Sony Corporation Blu-Ray * Thomson Blu-Ray * Time Warner Inc. Supporting Both formats non-exclusively * Toshiba Corporation HD DVD * Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) Blu-Ray (Blu-Ray consortium, technology contributor, not member of the the board of directors) Amongst the companies mentioned above Blu-Ray board members include companies like Apple, Dell, LG, Samsung, Sharp, TDK, Sun Microsystems, etc. |
True, but that doesn't change anything about the fact that HD DVD is the official DVD successor (as can be read in the Wikipedia article that I referred to above). This is also the reason why Blu-ray isn't even mentioned on the official site of the DVD Forum, while HD DVD has a complete section devoted to it:
