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Punisher on 12 July 2008

Not gonna touch this post because so many wrongs in it.



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Rainbird on 12 July 2008
Onimusha12 said:
whatever said:
Umm, Sony made nothing off of the DVD standard. They will make ALOT of money off of BR.

@Onimusha - your kidding right? I mean if you have an HDTV, it's a no brainer to get BR. It looks amazing. This Christmas should be HUGE for HDTVs and the PS3. I think it will outsell the 360 in all regions.

BR is about the only thing Sony has done right so far this gen.

 

 So all in all, the most you can say for Blu-Ray is that it is pretty, which I fail to see how such a claim was in contrast to my allegations of its contributions being superficial and those of a luxury item.

DVD
- Shows improved picture and sound over that of VHS on any TV.
- Was a non-degradeable format unlike VHS.
- Allowed for easy navigation thus eliminating the inconvenience of Rewinding or aimless fast forwarding.
- Allowed for extra content and disc menus which were impossible on VHS.

Blu-Ray
- Shows improved picture and sound over that of DVD noticeably only on expensive HD TVs.
- Has more space than a DVD for reasons yet to be realized.

Somehow the leap from one format to the next is less impressive for Blu-Ray as oppossed to DVD's emergence as the replacement for VHS. Blu-Ray's improvements are fairly superficial and vain, while not bad improvements they don't really beckon the notion we've become familiar with as being a true step forward in formats.

HDTVs are not necessarily a luxury item any more. At least where I live you can get a decent HDTV for a fairly cheap price, so while I agree blu-ray is still a "luxury" item, I think it is closer to becoming standard then you think.



davidc538 on 12 July 2008

sony's advantages are huge, bluray has killed off hddvd(thanks to sony having the balls to put it in ps3) sony now sony will prolly see 15 years or so of bluray movies and soooo much money



whatever on 12 July 2008
Punisher said:
Not gonna touch this post because so many wrongs in it.

 

Yes, this is advice I should have taken. 



tuoyo on 12 July 2008
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.

 



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tuoyo on 12 July 2008
whatever said:
Punisher said:
Not gonna touch this post because so many wrongs in it.

 

Yes, this is advice I should have taken. 

Actually your post above is one of the wrongs

 



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alephnull on 12 July 2008

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KBG29 on 12 July 2008

Sony has the advantage now of having the only product to Play Blu-ray movies, DVD Movies, or Downloadable Movies right out of the Box. This IMO is a huge point that Sony must drive to the consumer this winter. Many people I talk to want a Blu-ray Player for movies, but they would also like to be able to download TV shows. If SOny gets things right with their download service I think they will strike gold on the PS3. People are just sitting on the fence waiting for an all in one device, but it truly must be All In One for the mainstream to say OK I want that. To me The PS3 is right on the edge of being able to be the lone piece of hardware next to many, American, Japanese, and European TV's.



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TheRealMafoo on 12 July 2008
Kasz216 said:

Sony owns the highest percentage of the blu-ray IP. 30%.  

 

Link please. last I heard, no one knew how much it was, and the guess was they were behind a few other companies.



TheRealMafoo on 12 July 2008
tuoyo said:
TheRealMafoo said:

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

Yes but what is the benefit of that space? 

All A CD/DVD/BD is, is a storage medium. If you see that there was a reason to go 13x in storage capacity to go from CD to DVD, then why don't you see there is a reason to go 44x from DVD to 400 Gig BD?

If I could get a season of Lost on one disk for the same price, I would love that. That's worth it to me right there (plus it's worth it to them, as it's cheaper manufacturing, packaging, and shipping).