Posted on 04/26/2007 8:22:22 AM PDT by mjp
The Golden Rule:
Those with the money - make the rules.
I STILL SAY BETA IS BETTER!...............
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What is the big deal? I read a few months back that LG Electronics would be coming out with a player that plays both. Once that happens this “battle” would be moot.
So Blue Ray will soon be going the way of Beta.
What's with the long nics? Whatever happened to six character nics?
LG already released a hybrid player a few months ago. Their second generation player will be out soon. Samsung (formerly a Blu-Ray supporter) has announced they will also release a hybrid player this year.
If the rumors are true, one of the Blu-Ray supporters (I believe Pioneer) was furious at LG for going format neutral, and not sticking with Blu-Ray only. I expect Samsung will get some of the same heat from the Blu-Ray camp.
Didn’t Sony put out the Beta format also, losing out to VHS?
Its a sad reflection on society, but if the Porn industry goes with HD-DVD, then thats the winner; despite Walmart. Porn was why VHS won, helped create video on the internet, and the explosive growth of DVD discs and players.
SONY LOSES AGAIN.
-Eric
WalMart is the corner drugstore next to the Empire of Porn.
This was debunked completely. It was a chicom IPO statement of intent from a chicom manufacturing company raising money for an IPO.
Total bunk... even CNET had an article about this hoax!
LLS
Samsung's latest Blu-Ray player, the BD-P1200, is very nice. If they can make that machine play HD-DVDs as well, they will have a killer product.
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That player costs $1200.
You can buy one of each for less. The battle goes on.
Not if there are dual format readers/writers that don't cost too much more than single format machines. Don't be surprised if in three years all new high definition DVD players read both formats and cost less than half as much as the current single format players. Compared to computer equipment from two decades ago any of the high definition format DVD players are dirt cheap. What's this $200 for an HD DVD player? I remember when single CD players were $1,000 in 1985 dollars.
What killed Betamax was that even if Beta had marginally better picture quality, VHS cassettes could hold two hours of tape at standard speed which is enough to record most movies and could record a whole football game on half speed. The Beta and VHS cassettes were completely incompatible so in order to use both required two separate VCRS that cost over $1,000 in late 1970's dollars.
If one machine that is a fraction of the real cost of VCR (when they were introduce) can play/record both formats, then what really matters is whether the addtional features of the higher end format are compelling enough to studios to release films in that format even if intially the costs more to master and manufacture.
VHS vs Betamax all over again. Looks like the “grim reaper” for Blu-Ray.
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