js 0 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 http://www.blu-ray.com/ Seems like this will make all our current CD's and DVD's redundant? " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" /> Apparently they are on sale in Japan now - don't know if they can read both 'red' and 'blue' formats or just the one. Nothing will last as long as vinyl records or VHS, eh? (Consumerism gone nuts!) Link to post Share on other sites
base40 0 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 I thought there were 2 competing, blu ray and hd-dvd. Some machines going to let us watch both - as well as normal current DVDs. Sony are doing the blu ray thing, and its going to be in the PS3, right? Link to post Share on other sites
concrete-bagel 0 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 And how do these "Superbit" things fit in? http://www.skijapanguide.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/8/4153.html Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 No a HD DVD or a Blu DVD player will be able to play old DVDs and CDs no worries, When you buy a DVD you vill be able to buy a old school DVD or a new HD or Blu DVD, the latter will just look spectacular on a big plasma screen. You regular old telly wont be able to cope with it, it wont look all that flash. I dont think there is a player though that will read both HD and blu which is creating the war. Sony blu is bigger and better (25GB to 15GB and double the transfer rate at 36Mb/s )than HD which is going to be cheaper to produce the discs. Both are a resolution 1920 x 1080 compared to 720 x 480 for current DVD. Sony bought MGM and will sell all their old titles in blu format. It remains to be seen if you will be able to buy a popular movie in both formats or whether the particular movie studio will side with one format. There have been a lot of good articles in Time mag recently about it all HD dvd is Toshiba Electronics NEC Electronics Paramount Pictures (Viacom) Entertainment - Universal Studios (GE) Warner Bros./New Line Cinema And coming out to bat for blu is Sony / Sony Pictures Dell Hitachi Hewlett-Packard Panasonic (Matsushita) Pioneer Philips Samsung Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) The Walt Disney Co. HD has Warners, Paramount and Universal but Blu has most of the big consumer electronics companies Link to post Share on other sites
guzzlers-baps 0 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Thanks. It all sounds so confusing though. Link to post Share on other sites
brett_jackson 0 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I wonder if they'll re-release the Special Directors Editions of the LOTR movies since they'll be able to fit each movie on one disc? Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 They'll release as many versions as they possibly can. Probably no extras versions first so people buy that. Then with lots of extras so people buy it again. Then some other idea so people buy it again. Link to post Share on other sites
brett_jackson 0 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Is that a touch of cynicism? Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Realism, perhaps? Hardly an unrealistic proposition when you see how many DVDs are released these days. Indeed, including all the LOTR DVDs themselves..... Link to post Share on other sites
meat 0 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 You're gonna need a hi-def tv to see any difference as well. They're gonna look awesome though for movies and the like. Looking forward to it. Link to post Share on other sites
brett_jackson 0 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Heck, watching my normal DVD's through a DLP projected image on the wall is just fine for me. I don't think I'll bother upgrading unless they completely scrap current DVD. I predict the next step will be to get rid of plastic storage altogether and people will just have stuff stored on HDD's (like TiVo only with 100's of GB of storage). Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Interesting piece about this Bluray vs HD-DVD here http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/techno...OjYPySSN3/PREEA Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 And I thought they were close to making an agreement on 1 format. Apparently not according to that one. Link to post Share on other sites
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