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jankazimierz on 29 November 2007

I love blu-ray movies, and i am surprised at how crappy some dvds look on my 1080p hd television.



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ProfDallas on 29 November 2007

Don't worry, the nastier knight gets, the worse he thinks that his side is doing.



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ProfDallas on 04 December 2007

5.6 Blu-ray movies have been sold for every HD-DVD movie sold in Australia! This was just an added tidbit of info but the main point however, was that Blockbuster of Australia and Video Ezy are planning to continue supporting BD only.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/youre-missing-the-boat/2007/12/04/1196530626138.html



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ProfDallas on 04 December 2007

Another Amazon.com buy-one-get-one free sale

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000172941&plpage=1&tag=bluraynews-20



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makingmusic476 on 04 December 2007
ProfDallas said:
Another Amazon.com buy-one-get-one free sale

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000172941&plpage=1&tag=bluraynews-20

You left out the most important part:

It's a WARNER buy-one-get-one.

Ding ding ding! 



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makingmusic476 on 04 December 2007

Michael Bay's thoughts on the format war (from Michael Bay's forum):

What you don't understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth.


Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott have all been very pro-Blu-Ray from the start. It's most likely because, as Directors, they feel that the added capacity and higher bitrates of Blu-Ray will lead to a better representation of their films.



LordTheNightKnight on 04 December 2007
makingmusic476 said:
Michael Bay's thoughts on the format war (from Michael Bay's forum):

What you don't understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth.


Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott have all been very pro-Blu-Ray from the start. It's most likely because, as Directors, they feel that the added capacity and higher bitrates of Blu-Ray will lead to a better representation of their films.

So it will be really interesting to see if the 3 layer HD-DVD changes this, assuming your guess is correct. 



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libellule on 04 December 2007

""So it will be really interesting to see if the 3 layer HD-DVD changes this, assuming your guess is correct. ""

==> is it not possible to get multiple layer on BR too ?
(just a question)



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Diomedes1976 on 04 December 2007

Yes it is ,there are currently 100Gb BR discs and they were working in a BR disc with up to 200Gb .

Michael Bay is quite clever ,he saw clearly whats happening and had the guts to tell it .

I wont be donwloading movies by paying .I can download a Divx film to see in my computer here and then ,but if I am spending money in something I want to have it in a phisical form and not only in a hard drive wich data can be corrupted and has a memory limit .I just cant imagine having all my movies in two personality-less external hard drives .



LordTheNightKnight on 04 December 2007
Diomedes1976 said:
Yes it is ,there are currently 100Gb BR discs and they were working in a BR disc with up to 200Gb .

Michael Bay is quite clever ,he saw clearly whats happening and had the guts to tell it .

I wont be donwloading movies by paying .I can download a Divx film to see in my computer here and then ,but if I am spending money in something I want to have it in a phisical form and not only in a hard drive wich data can be corrupted and has a memory limit .I just cant imagine having all my movies in two personality-less external hard drives .

No. There are experimental discs. They aren't ready for mass production yet. This applies to both sides, as there are also experimental ten layer HD-DVDs.



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