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windbane on 13 July 2008
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Onimusha12 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
Onimusha12 said:

CD made a better format

DVD made a better format

Blu-Ray just made a better DVD

 

 

How is the DVD a better format then the CD, yet BD is not a better format then CD? Every advantage you can say the DVD has over the CD, the BD has over the DVD, and by a larger factor (other then sound).

The size delta is better.

The resolution delta is better.

Sound is better on BD, but not as extreme.

One of the advantages BD has over DVD, that DVD does not have over CD, is a much better surface coating.

BD is the right amount of jump if you ask me.

I did not list DVD as the successor to CD, I listed them both seperately as respective solutions to thier media. CD replaced Cassettes and DVD replaced VHS.

Simply making a disc that can hold more means little to an industry that wasn't necessaraly hurting for disc space. And better picture and sound are nice, but are ultimately aesthetic improvements, not utility improvements in the way DVD was to VHS in terms of ease of navigation, non-degradable digital format, and the advent of multiple viewing options for a movie or tv show.

Blu-Ray is only a jump in the same respect that DVD-9 was a jump to DVD, sure the jump was bigger but ultimately it was only in superficial aspects, not the convenience or utility of the medium. Even if you can argue that the processes by which Blu-Ray surpasses DVD are far more complex and varied, the end result remains the same, a format that by large improves picture, sound and space, not utility or convenience.

Does this make Blu-Ray bad? Not necessaraly, but it does cast it in a far more questionable argument of whether it meets any standard of necessity as one would expect from a new and emerging format.


For games, the advantage of Blu-ray over DVD is the same as DVD over CD. Games are already using the extra space (Stranglehold including a Blu-ray version of Hard Boiled being the first great example), just like Baldur's Gate coming on 1 DVD instead of 6 CDs was an early example of the advantage of games on DVD. Do you think the games would be the same if we stayed with CD? No. The space will be a bigger advantage as time goes by.

The movie quality is significantly better. No, it's not DVD over VHS great, but once people see it they are generally impressed enough to care. Perhaps you haven't seen Blu-ray on an HDTV just like you never saw MGS4 despite criticizing it all over the place. The extra space for movies is used for the higher resolution video and audio. Check out torrent sites to see how much space that takes.