foxnews.com— By the end of this year, we'll see exactly which next-generation optical media will be on our desktop computers. Or will we?
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@blackbelt88Just wait till the whole 3d versions of those movies come out... gorege lucas is on board... its 3d withought the headaches... its on the internet somewhere....
Well said frem001. The consumer's not the loser, the dvd manufacturers are. Right now, the jump between DVD and HD DVD is not significant enough to me to warrant buying one. The jump between VHS and DVD though was.Cerberus: Ya, when 3D dvds come out, i'll be the first on board. Theres a great article in the new issue of Popular Science that talks about 3D cinema. Samus: Ya, the way he wrote it. I agree though, online distribution is the wave of the future
Well said wilf brim. In other words, whoever makes it more flexible and gives us more choices will probably win the battle.Blu-Ray is a potentially superior technology since its shorter wavelenght permits you to write and read more data in the same physical space that a red laser, but it is not capable or reading current DVDs.The red laser-based HD-DVD should have no problems reading your existing DVD collection and that is a definite plus. If they do DVD/HD-DVD disks for people that don't have HD-DVD players yet, it should put them at the top since people can buy whatever movies they want knowing that whenever they buy that HD-DVD player and TV in the future, they will be able to play them in full quality.I don't care who wins I just want a winner and hope they don't f#$% the consumers.... and that DRM thing, we'll find a way around it!
I agree, especially if all new releases move to hybrid DVD/HD-DVD. Porting all of their back catalog to this format would certainly drive new adopters to purchase the discs that promise an edition for that TV 4-8 years down the line. Yes it will take that long, until a 20" HDTV is available for $200-250 It isn't mass market.
siroccoMay 15, 2006
What do you think that region code is on all of your DVDs?
icepersonMay 15, 2006
suicide kings has some multi-angle stuff on it. nothing too impressive though.
cerberus047May 15, 2006
@blackbelt88Just wait till the whole 3d versions of those movies come out... gorege lucas is on board... its 3d withought the headaches... its on the internet somewhere....
sych0May 15, 2006
Well said frem001. The consumer's not the loser, the dvd manufacturers are. Right now, the jump between DVD and HD DVD is not significant enough to me to warrant buying one. The jump between VHS and DVD though was.Cerberus: Ya, when 3D dvds come out, i'll be the first on board. Theres a great article in the new issue of Popular Science that talks about 3D cinema. Samus: Ya, the way he wrote it. I agree though, online distribution is the wave of the future
javaliMay 16, 2006
Well said wilf brim. In other words, whoever makes it more flexible and gives us more choices will probably win the battle.Blu-Ray is a potentially superior technology since its shorter wavelenght permits you to write and read more data in the same physical space that a red laser, but it is not capable or reading current DVDs.The red laser-based HD-DVD should have no problems reading your existing DVD collection and that is a definite plus. If they do DVD/HD-DVD disks for people that don't have HD-DVD players yet, it should put them at the top since people can buy whatever movies they want knowing that whenever they buy that HD-DVD player and TV in the future, they will be able to play them in full quality.I don't care who wins I just want a winner and hope they don't f#$% the consumers.... and that DRM thing, we'll find a way around it!
iqdeficienciesMay 16, 2006
Based simply on the costs & time to ramp up major production, I'd say HD-DVD is posed to crush Blu-ray provided it receives content.
iqdeficienciesMay 16, 2006
I agree, especially if all new releases move to hybrid DVD/HD-DVD. Porting all of their back catalog to this format would certainly drive new adopters to purchase the discs that promise an edition for that TV 4-8 years down the line. Yes it will take that long, until a 20" HDTV is available for $200-250 It isn't mass market.