Posted on 08/11/2005 7:44:57 PM PDT by Lauretij2
Perhaps it’s not a huge surprise, since filmmaker Twentieth Century Fox has been sitting on the board of the Blu-Ray Disc Association since last October, but today the company formally announced that its home entertainment subsidiary will release new TV programs, films and other titles on the Blu-Ray disk format when Blu-Ray hardware launches in North America, Japan and Europe.
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Does this mean I have to buy a NEW DVD player?
Yes, or a Playstation 3..
Forget it.
I'm going back to my 8 track and quadraphonic system.
> Does this mean I have to buy a NEW DVD player?
Yes. Different laser frequency for starters. But the
new player will play all your existing 5-in and 3-in
media (except the video on the long-gone LaserDisc
CDV-5 format).
And you may need a new TV display, and not just because
the res is HD. The Hollywood lawyers want to make sure
it's a "secure" display that won't let you do anything
but watch.
Will you have to pay money every time you watch the
disc? Stay tuned.
This may just be the new Beta-Max. With bazillions of DVDs and players in place it will take a lot to make people like me buy new stuff. And the new stuff would have to be inexpensive.
I'm about to buy myself a Samsung or Sony HDTV and was thinking that I should buy a PS3 for my grandkids so they could play some HD games
Are you telling me that I will be able to use the PS3 as a DVD and a Blu-Ray player? That would be a very big plus.
Will I continue to let them make movies and watch them themselves? Yes.
"Will you have to pay money every time you watch the
disc? Stay tuned."
If this is the result of the newer technology, I believe that book publishing stocks will increase in value.
Yes, a PS3 will work as a blu-ray DVD player.
Despite the naysayers on here, they'll eventually all move to this format. HDTV is just too big of a thing. Old DVD players and movies still have another 6-8 years left in them though.
Eventually, you'll want the HD stuff. 480p is all DVD can do. Blu-Ray can do 1080p
Pay per view died forever, IMHO, with the utter failure of Divx (not the codec we know today).
He was being sarcastic with a veiled reference to failed pay-per-play schemes.
You won't be paying per-view.
> This may just be the new Beta-Max.
Indeed, because there is also a competing HD standard
called HD-DVD.
We could see a period of dual-stocking, and then, as
with DVD-R v.DVD+R and DVD-RW v.DVD+RW,
dual-standard players.
Or one std could just go belly-up, or both replaced
something that doesn't require so many fragile layers.
The computer industry would like to have NN GByte
optical recorders for backup, and their preference
(and the archival data reliability) may bias which
standard succeeds.
An awful lot of heavy weights are behind blu-ray now. I think hd-dvd is DOA.
I'm kinda glad too, because blu-ray's just got so many advantages. Better bitrate and raw storage space.
I hope you are right.
But I wouldn't be surprised to see them try some new tech to achieve the pay per view scheme.
> He was being sarcastic with a veiled reference to
> failed pay-per-play schemes. You won't be paying per-view.
I'm not so sure.
I haven't deeply studied these standards, but some things
have that caught my eye enable such possibilities.
The industry would love to have one-way rentals, for
example. That implies tiered media: few-play and
multi-play. Once you have tiered, there could be any
number of levels, including various kinds of timebombs.
Yes DIVX was a failure. Don't assume that the IP sharks
learned from that what we'd like to think they learned
from that.
I'd definitely be surprised to see DivX-like schemes make a serious comeback.
The content protection schemes in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, not to mention the HDCP connection requirement to get HD footage out of those DVDs, will be enough to placate the content providers.
Content protection like BD+ will probably be the reason why Blu-Ray wins.
Won't matter since I threw away my TV sets.
So...are there DVD players available now that are compatible with BluRay? Does this mean that BluRay will be the standard? I'm going to be looking at HD equipment this weekend.
That's about all my eyes can do.
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