hdbeat.com— Microsoft and Intel have both gone on record stating they would join blu-ray if it supported managed copy, now it looks like it will. HP formally requested the blu-ray committe add that and iHD today.
Oct 19, 2005View in Crawl 4
What people don't nottice (and i want to know everybodys oppinion on this) is that you could fit 14 HOURS of HD content on a single layered dvd using divx or xvid. This should be the real push. Forget a new format use divx or xvid dvds.
Only the bleeding edge will ever get a blue-ray or HD-DVD player. 95% of customers still don't have HD TVs and wont for some time because of the still bloated prices. It took DVD a while to catch on but now almost everyone has one and nobody wants another 2 competing formats. I don't think most people will ever get one of these new format players. I predict that both will be a flash in the pan and will be swallowed by downloadable content on upcoming set-top boxes.
Re: Next Generation Consoles. Are the next gen discs even needed for these new console games? I have my doubts that game developers will actually be taking advantage of the PS Blu-Ray capabilities at least until a couple years out. All this does is make the PS more expensive for Sony - which means that in order to compete with MS, they are going to be taking steep losses on their hardware. Sony has a lot to loose with this format war, but the price for them to succeed is going to be pretty high as well.And thank goodness for competition. The prospect of having multiple formats suck, but the prospect of having one format is even worse. Competition should keep the DRM to a manageable level (hopefully) and we are seeing pressure to include copy features and things that otherwise wouldn't be included because it isn't a priority for the movie studios. And the price of these players should also drop more quickly as these companies try to push to become the mass market 'standard'. Toshiba is reportedly recruiting Chinese manufacturers to crank out a ton of cheap HD-DVDs - which is unheard of this early in the game because the big brands usually try to milk the beginning of the development cycle to maximize profits. This will cut into Toshiba's profits, but it will make for good competition for Sony who is (was?) planning on gouging $1k each for the first blu-ray players.
no body buys SACD or DVD-Audio, but people will use or buy mp3, divx, AAC, etc.this is a big freakin hint which direction HD content will go.soon, people will wonder how the heck they are going to put a bluray or HD-DVD video onto their iPod and Cellphone.discs will be pointless.
smerndmgyOct 20, 2005
DRM is garbage. i have no interest in purchasing DRM'd files.
indiraider2Oct 20, 2005
What people don't nottice (and i want to know everybodys oppinion on this) is that you could fit 14 HOURS of HD content on a single layered dvd using divx or xvid. This should be the real push. Forget a new format use divx or xvid dvds.
titanassOct 20, 2005
Only the bleeding edge will ever get a blue-ray or HD-DVD player. 95% of customers still don't have HD TVs and wont for some time because of the still bloated prices. It took DVD a while to catch on but now almost everyone has one and nobody wants another 2 competing formats. I don't think most people will ever get one of these new format players. I predict that both will be a flash in the pan and will be swallowed by downloadable content on upcoming set-top boxes.
alaerusOct 20, 2005
This reminds me of the format wars between + and - DVD recordable media. I wonder if we will end up with both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media?
rileyjtOct 20, 2005
Re: Next Generation Consoles. Are the next gen discs even needed for these new console games? I have my doubts that game developers will actually be taking advantage of the PS Blu-Ray capabilities at least until a couple years out. All this does is make the PS more expensive for Sony - which means that in order to compete with MS, they are going to be taking steep losses on their hardware. Sony has a lot to loose with this format war, but the price for them to succeed is going to be pretty high as well.And thank goodness for competition. The prospect of having multiple formats suck, but the prospect of having one format is even worse. Competition should keep the DRM to a manageable level (hopefully) and we are seeing pressure to include copy features and things that otherwise wouldn't be included because it isn't a priority for the movie studios. And the price of these players should also drop more quickly as these companies try to push to become the mass market 'standard'. Toshiba is reportedly recruiting Chinese manufacturers to crank out a ton of cheap HD-DVDs - which is unheard of this early in the game because the big brands usually try to milk the beginning of the development cycle to maximize profits. This will cut into Toshiba's profits, but it will make for good competition for Sony who is (was?) planning on gouging $1k each for the first blu-ray players.
ishmael5Oct 20, 2005
i'll be getting a blu-ray player...it'll be called a PS3
bacon_skodaOct 20, 2005
no body buys SACD or DVD-Audio, but people will use or buy mp3, divx, AAC, etc.this is a big freakin hint which direction HD content will go.soon, people will wonder how the heck they are going to put a bluray or HD-DVD video onto their iPod and Cellphone.discs will be pointless.
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