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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Is Blu-Ray The PlayStation 3's Ultimate Determining "X Factor?"

The Anarchyz on 25 November 2008
amp316 said:
The Anarchyz said:
amp316 said:
Seeing that 95% of the market is still DVD I have no idea where anyone can say that Blu-Ray will ever be the majority choice.

Blu-Ray reminds me of Beta. Beta was a superior format to VHS that no one switched over to because of the price.

I, for one, am an avid movie collector with over 1000 movies that are on DVD. I am not about to switch over to Blu-ray unless everyone loses their minds and goes out and buys them which in turn would make DVD's irrelevant.

 

I lived the time of the video format war and the comparison is flawed.

1. Betamax and VHS were released at the same time and were rival formats from the start.

2. Betamax and VHS were a lot alike (Beta having the better quality), and the key to the format win was not the price, it was the lenght, VHS put more hours in a single T-120 than a Betamax cassette. By the time Betamax improved this the war was over.

3. JVC improved the VHS format with the VHS HQ has a quality near Betamax, with this the difference is almost impossible to see for the common eye.

Now you're comparing this with the DVD/Blu-Ray situation??? let's see...

1. DVD launched in late 90's as the unified video format to avoid a war, Sony and Philips put their rules, and Toshiba and others like Matsushita put their rules as well. Blu-Ray launched in 2006 and it's not an unified format, he had to fight a war with HD-DVD (this is the real comparison).

2. DVD only handles 480i and 480p resolutions, Blu-Ray handles them and the HD-ones (720p, 1080i and 1080p), and HD-DVD did that as well... So they're a lot different, and they're not direct competitors.

I also was alive during the VHS and Beta war and I do think that the comparison is a good one.  Beta was defeated because of price more than length.  Trust me.

Explain to me how in the blue hell DVD and Blu-Ray are not competitors.  That's like saying that albums and cassettes weren't competitors because they came out at different times.  Let me guess, you're one of those guys that claims that the Wii is in a different market than the 360 and the PS3.  It's a good argument when you're getting trounced.

 

I don't think Wii and the HD-consoles are in a different market, they came out this generation, but is the PS2 DIRECT competition of the PS3, 360 or Wii??? of course not, and the 3 current consoles together don't get near the PS2 marketshare, doesn't mean they're DIRECT competitors...

Is the same with DVD and Blu-Ray, they're not DIRECT competitors, just like the VHS and DVD, of course this will not be like that, because of the nature of both, Blu-Ray players are compatible with DVDs, both are digital formats and one needs a TV-upgrade...

That's why the comparison of DVD-BR and Beta-VHS is flawed...

And Betamax lose by lenght, in the Reagan era the industrialized capitalist countries were in a bonanza, so people were able to spend more if the product did what they wanted, while the Beta format only got 1 hour of recording the VHS got 4, and people preferred a tape that allowed them to record an entire sports game, 3 hours of primetime, or a TV-special like the Academy Awards... Hollywood took advantage of this too because their movies are more than 1-hour, and the porn industry really took advantage of this, everyone preferred the VHS because of the lenght more than the price...