Odie
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Post by Odie on Feb 20, 2008 0:04:31 GMT -5
I read that this morning as well. Seems Sony will take over the DVD sector for awhile. I dont own a blu-ray yet, probably wait until the prices starts to fall which will be soon since everything will go to blu-ray now.
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Post by Thrakus on Feb 20, 2008 8:12:24 GMT -5
you know that brings up an interesting point.
Blue ray will drop drastically now that the tech will be more commonplace. (just like DVD players went from 300-500 to 100-200 in one year)
So will the PS3 see a drastic price drop as well since that was there big reason for the $600 price range.
Now if blu-ray is in the 200 range they can't use that argument anymore.
hehe if they don't drop the price after that they are gonna take alot of heat.
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Post by GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth) on Feb 20, 2008 9:35:41 GMT -5
I have a dual player that I won in a raffle. On my way home from picking it up, I stopped and rented the only movie that I could find at the rental place in both formats: The 300. First of all, to play the BD, I had to upgrade the firmware right off the bat. Ok, no problem...15 mins later I was all set to try them (lesson here is, test the movie FIRST, if you are planning an evening of entertaining guests with your home theatre or something). Firmware update done, I started messing with the Blu first. It took a while to boot up, but it looked and sounded very good. Marginally better than standard def. DVD. (Not $400 better, though). I jumped around to a few specific scenes, and then unloaded it and popped in the HD-DVD. Very first thing I noticed was that the HD-DVD booted way, WAY faster. I don't know why. (but I blame DRM anyways...because nothing sets back & hampers technology faster, or sours the consumers experience more than DRM). I jumped to, and watched the same scenes again, and really couldn't tell a difference in video or sound between it and the Blu. Just for shits and giggles I popped the Blu back in to see if it booted any faster this time, and it didn't...it still took a way longer time.
Looking at it strictly from an ease of use, and price standpoint, and based on my experience, I would much have prefered to use HD-DVD rather than Blue-Ray. Video & sound quality was a wash between the two.
I think one of the comparison points people were using between the technologies was that BD holds more, and thus they can pack on more extra features. Personally, I hardly ever watch that crap. I watched it for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and listened to the director/cast commentary, but otherwise, the only time we watch the extra stuff is on Pixar DVD's and such, and even then, I'd be fine if it was on a seperate disc. So that argument, for me, is irrelevant.
I'm just glad I haven't sunk any money (not counting rentals) into one or the other yet. Even if I hadn't of won this player, I don't think I would have signed on to either technology for quite a while.
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Winin
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01/2004 DAoC
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Post by Winin on Feb 20, 2008 12:06:43 GMT -5
It was a company, but they are affiliated with Amazon. I guess they pay Amazon to have Amazon be their storefront.
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Post by Ghlore "MacInnes" on Feb 20, 2008 19:02:26 GMT -5
Glad i didnt buy the HD player for my 360, though i do remember reading somewheres if Blu-Ray takes off over HD Microsoft will come out with a Blu-Ray player for the 360 as well.
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