SvennoJ said:
Zappykins said:
Well, I thought it was common knowledge now. Like how Sony walked out the the video format talks because they thought if they got their Beta out first then everyone would use it. Many of my friends got stuck with video players that you couldn't get any movie for. I really lost a great deal of respect for Sony company after that. But they did make the best consumer televions for many years. Till Samsung finally passed them.
HD DVD had some advantages over Blu-ray. Blu-ray can store more, but gosh darn they take forever to load up. I don't think one was really signifianctly better than the other. They both use blue lasers and similar tech. The whole war was stupid and avoidable.
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Why not blamce JVC for not going to Sony sooner with VHS, and instead launching a competing format?
My parents went with video 2000 from Phillips, superior quality, dead. You could record on both sides, it had reverse and different play speeds without any distortion, full quality pause. It was quite a step back switching to VHS.
I still have the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player with a bunch of HD DVDs. The quality is not as good, but those were early ones ofcourse. Still HD-DVD has a maximum specced bitrate of 28mbps for video, Blu-ray 40mbps. Blame the producers for slow loading discs. I have blu-rays that boot fast and directly to the menu screen, although those are the exception. And disable internet for your blu-ray player if you can, some download up to date trailers or other crap. I hate BD live.
Competition isn't always good and being an early adopter is risky. Typical prisoner's dilemma in business. I'm glad the best format won this time. Philips was first with home VCR in 1972 and made the best with VC2000, got them nowhere.
As a collector digital movies are worse now than the video tape format war was. Which service will survive, have the most complete catalog, best consistent quality, stable collection, who knows. REDRAY player, Kaleidescope, Sony 4K player, Netflix, Amazon video, iTunes video, XBox video, PSN, UltraViolet, Disney digital.
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