What is the advantage of Blu-ray to Sony now?

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TheRealMafoo said:

KylieDog said:

I've just posted this in another thread.

 

Blu-ray is too little, too soon.

 

VHS lasted 25 years or so, DVD is 10 years old, DVD only became the main format over VHS 5 years ago in 2003.

For movies Blu-ray doesn't really offer much more than DVDs do, a slightly higher def that most people don't have the TVs for to start with (maybe wait until HDTVs are standard?), and those that do most people can't tell the difference, or just don't care.

 

Just something to up the price for somethign a lot of people won't use.

 

The attempt to copy the PS2/DVD package hasn't worked.   I see no important benefit of the PS3 using blu-ray as a format.  Space?  I can manage to effort to swap a disc every few hours.

The advantage is space... a LOT of space. DVD is 9 gig, they have 400 gig BD's in development.

As to the OP, Sony does not control BD, they are part of a consortium, and probably come in 3rd when it comes to power on that board.

Sony will make money off of BD, but that's about it. They didn't gain the ability to completely limit what goes on a BD, or who uses them in the future. If MS wants to put a BD in there next console, they will.

 

Yes but what is the benefit of that space?  Not much.  It's not like a 400gig disc is going to make the sound and picture like something from the year 2025.  It's not like they will put a whole series of Lost on 1 disc and sell it for the price of a movie.  Maybe they will include loads of extra features on the disc but who really cares other than the biggest geeks.  So really what is the benefit of a 400gb or even 1000gb disc.  Now if there was a small sized 400gb blu-ray disc that you could play on a disc man or something then I would see a true benefit.