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Kynes on 22 September 2010
zgamer5 said:

so its safe to say that games on next box will come in 4 discs?


He isn't talking about nextbox. He's answering a question about X360, it isn't that difficult to understand if you try.



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bobbert on 22 September 2010

Unless a movie is 4 hours long, the movie's file size is <10GB. Technically, we don't even need blu-ray for blu-ray movies. All you need to do is use compression rather than needing a new format. Heck, if we just switched to dolby pro-logic II for CDs we would have our perfect stereo sound as well as 5.1, 7.1 etc. all still fitting on that same CD. New storage media isn't really needed for anything to this day.



Munkeh111 on 22 September 2010
Jordahn said:
Munkeh111 said:

Well blu-ray is quite nice, and I do think blu-ray is far more useful than DD. Dodgy internet connections, and excessive internet use issues with ISPs mean that having the physical copy is much better with big things like HD movies


Wifey and I were watching Origins (anime) on Blu-Ray.  In the famous words of Mr. Sulu, "Oh... My..."


I agree, I remember watching Quantum of Solace having not watched a blu-ray for ages, and it is just amazing, especially as most of my HD comes at 720p (most PS3 games and Sky)



zgamer5 on 22 September 2010
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
zgamer5 said:

so its safe to say that games on next box will come in 4 discs?

4 discs, 4 discs is the present, the next 360 will have 10 discs ...

 

typical trash talk the others sucess!!! learn something with Sony mister ... mister microsoft idiot that make idiot comments !!!


the important thing is that sony doesnt come out with a new disc.



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Jordahn on 22 September 2010
Munkeh111 said:
Jordahn said:
Munkeh111 said:

Well blu-ray is quite nice, and I do think blu-ray is far more useful than DD. Dodgy internet connections, and excessive internet use issues with ISPs mean that having the physical copy is much better with big things like HD movies


Wifey and I were watching Origins (anime) on Blu-Ray.  In the famous words of Mr. Sulu, "Oh... My..."


I agree, I remember watching Quantum of Solace having not watched a blu-ray for ages, and it is just amazing, especially as most of my HD comes at 720p (most PS3 games and Sky)


Not to go Off topic, but what kind of HDTV do you have?



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Vetteman94 on 22 September 2010
NiKKoM said:
Vetteman94 said:
NiKKoM said:
Carl2291 said:

"As for movies, Avatar broke all records for Blu-ray sales in the UK and has sold a stunning 6.2 million copies. Blu-ray disc sales in Q1 2010 almost doubled those of 2009 and the current outlook for the format is ‘bullish’."

Well...

That's that. 6.2 Million copies in the UK alone eh? I wonder how many people have downloaded it on the 360 in the UK


Meh.. that's probably WW... Avatar broke record for Blu-Ray AND DVD sales at 6.7 million copies in NA in 4 days... 4 million DVD and 2.7 Blu-Ray... UK sales for Avatar Blu-Ray where 220.000 first day and  0.5 million after two weeks.. highly doubt it has reached 6.2 million in 3 months in the UK...

NA Blu-ray Marketshare for Avatars opening week was 49%.  So if the opening week was 6.7 Million,  Blu-ray version would be at 3.28 Million and the DVD version would be at 3.42 Million.

That's not what the Studio is saying: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10474107

Twentieth Century Fox announced Sunday that James Cameron's sci-fi epic has sold 2.7 million Blu-rays and 4 million DVDs since April 22.

My error,  I keep forgetting that Home Media Research tracks revenue and not sales. While my 49% number was correct, it applies to revenue.



Jordahn on 22 September 2010
Kynes said:
zgamer5 said:

so its safe to say that games on next box will come in 4 discs?


He isn't talking about nextbox. He's answering a question about X360, it isn't that difficult to understand if you try.


No, but zgamer5 is talking about the nextbox by logicly speculating.  "It isn't that difficult to understand if you try."



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Kynes on 22 September 2010
Jordahn said:
Kynes said:
zgamer5 said:

so its safe to say that games on next box will come in 4 discs?


He isn't talking about nextbox. He's answering a question about X360, it isn't that difficult to understand if you try.


No, but zgamer5 is talking about the nextbox by logicly speculating.  "It isn't that difficult to understand if you try."

Well, he can't speculate logically about the nextbox with an answer about X360.



Darth Tigris on 22 September 2010

I found this story about PC gaming embracing DD to be interesting:  http://www.pcworld.com/article/205979/why_digital_downloads_are_soaring_on_pcs_not_consoles.html?tk=hp_new

So does that mean it really IS the future for next gen?  Not for Sony, because they have royalties tied to disc formats that they'd be foolish to give up.  But what about MS and Nintendo?

Anyway, as for THIS gen of GAMING, Blu Ray has proved to be a superfluous luxury.  The movie thing is debatable, though.  Does anyone have a link to a professional comparison between the same movie 1080p downloaded through the Zune marketplace or Playstation store and one played on Blu Ray?



Jordahn on 22 September 2010
Kynes said:
Jordahn said:
Kynes said:
zgamer5 said:

so its safe to say that games on next box will come in 4 discs?


He isn't talking about nextbox. He's answering a question about X360, it isn't that difficult to understand if you try.


No, but zgamer5 is talking about the nextbox by logicly speculating.  "It isn't that difficult to understand if you try."

Well, he can't speculate about the nextbox with an answer about X360. It's not logical.


It's logical when you consider the bigger picture that a handful of developers THIS gen have complained about DVD storage "restraints" when compared to Blu-ray.



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