Posted on 06/17/2007 10:29:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sony has a history of coming out with a competing technology that is better but doesn’t make it due to licensing greed. VHS vs. Beta, Audio Cassette vs 4-track cartridge (anyone even remember the 4 track. I bought one because it was Sony, it died in 2 years (late 60s).)
The porn industry standardized on VHS and Beta died. They are backing the HD-DVD over of the Blue-Ray. Blockbuster has clout that wasn’t there with VHS vs. Beta. I wonder who will win.
Yeah, and Circuit City backs DivX
Don’t worry, all Blu-ray players will play standard DVD’s.
The only advantage hddvd has is price for now, and only for the hardware. The discs are the same.
The thing is, the Blu-ray players have dropped by half in just 1 year in price. hddvd has dropped too, but Blu-ray is always pretty close behind.
I suggest you look at the BluRay consortium membership. There are dozens involved. HDDVD has miscrosatan and Toshiba and Universal.
LLS
Yes, and most will upconvert them to 1080i, via HDMI interface.
LLS
That’s what I don’t get.. People think Blu-ray is just Sony.
It’s a consortium much like DVD and CD’s were. The vast majority supports Blu-ray now, electronics firms and the movie studios.
I have the Xbox360 hddvd player, and I’m not such a fan of it. I really prefer my PS3.
The PS3 will now upconvert standard blu-ray to 1080p.
Still looks near unwatchable compared to real Blu-ray movies on my 56” DLP though.
Maybe. But, most of the best movie titles are coming out on Blu-Ray. I say this as someone who has an HD-DVD player.
Get a new remote. You’ll like the DVR.
I did the same thing. I figured it was a good way to have my cake and eat it too. I get an HD media format with minimal investment while I wait for a winner.
PS3 is mostly a game machine that does a stellar job of playing BD’s. My Pioneer and friends Sony BD players play DVD upconverted as well as a $5000.00 Denon or my $1700.00 Elite Pioneer DVD player.
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PS3 has horsepower. I’ll bet before it is over, you get firmware that will do DVD justice also.
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It’s not that. It already does good for a regular DVD player. It’s just that 2megapixel 1080p looks a whole lot better than 500 thousand pixels 480p.
The MSRP of the HD A2 as of 6/18/07 at 8:00 AM is once again $399. This is only $100 less than the new Blu-ray S300 which streets today.
And who pays MSRP?
Why do these threads attract so many "I'm a Luddite and proud of it!" type posts? ;)
HDMI should be boycotted, unless you want your system hobbled by DRM.
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