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makingmusic476 on 10 April 2008
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Xeno said:
makingmusic476 said:
If you take it in steps, it obviously won't be much of a difference. 540p isn't much better than 480p. 720p isn't much better than 540p. 720p to 1080p is a much bigger difference than any of those listed yet, but depending on the TV size and how close you sit, it could still mean little.

480i > 1080p, however, is a very big gap, and it's the jump most people will be making.

And here's a good comparison of some 480p to 1080p goodness, though it's not quite the same as on a nice TV from 8 feet away.

http://xylon.haloapplications.com/bluray/kingdomofheaven/04/

That's a very nice post. However, I think that, even from five feet, if you don't have 20/20 vision -- for example, if you have 20/30 -- it's not that compelling.


Well, I'm sure more people will find it compelling than those that found SACD compelling. :P

And as prices fall, it won't be as troublesome for people to adopt. DVDs cost around $40 when they first came out, much like Blu-Rays cost last year. Look at DVDs now.

Tbh, I think that manufacturers will force adoption of Blu-Ray over time. As manufacturing costs fall, eventually they will make Blu-Ray playback standard in all DVD players to cut back on the number of SKUs they have to deal with, and then they'll essentially be forcing people to upgrade as their old players die. It's kind've like HDTVs. Soon you won't be able to find SDTVs anymore simply because manufacturers don't feel like making them any longer. This is one advantage that Blu-Ray holds over DVD that DVD never had over VHS - backwards compatibility. A Blu-Ray player can do anything a DVD player can do.

Really, at this point in time price is the only factor keeping people from buying Blu-Ray players instead of DVD players. As prices drop and CEs begin to push Blu-Ray players in full force, they'll slowly gain in marketshare, and once they hit 80% or so studios will stop producing DVDs, much like they stopped producing VHS tapes when DVD reached a similar penetration level.

In the end, Blu-Ray will take over the hard disc media market entirely. Of course, the market may be much smaller at that point due to DD, but it will happen nontheless.