Shoot! I'm sticking with Betamax!
Posted on 05/06/2008 11:04:35 AM PDT by Notary Sojac
I also watch DVD's on my home LAN, and I can't easily rip Blu-Ray for HD storage as I can a DVD.
I think it will be quite a while before anything other than a good ol' DVD crosses my threshold.
“I think it will be quite a while before anything other than a good ol’ DVD crosses my threshold.”
That may be true, but as the article points out PS3 alone will drive plenty of Blu-ray adoption. Since Blu-ray players also play DVDs there’s no issue with losing access to the old library.
As to ripping Blu-ray discs, I thought software was already out there...
BluRay will slowly filter in as people replace DVD players but only if the costs fall to a level where people decide it’s worth it.
It’s the price. How much easier can you get than that? DVDs didn’t EXPLODE until units hit the magic $100 price point. At this rate, we’ll have to wait two years(excluding inventory clearing black Friday sales) before we get to that point with BluRay.
This isn’t rocket science.
THere is no advantage to Blu-Ray in your van. You need a large screen TV to appreciate it.
It is truly amazing though. HD is fuzzy in comparison.
Blu-ray will take off when there are more titles available.
While the economy is touch and go and people are having to cope with $4 gasoline and their home equity going “poof”, $400 “new and improved” video players ARE NOT APPEALING TO THE MASSES! Rocket science it is not!
The problem is that Hi-Def junk is still junk. DVD resolution is just fine for all of the film classics (and classic TV) that folks really want to own. Beyond that, the real difference between upscaled DVD (which all current DVD players do) and BluRay is marginal. And then there’s the “benefit” of BluRay’s DRM features (remember, HD video was never about delivering a better product to the viewer, but all about closing DRM holes in the DVD format).
Bottom line: Movies/Programming which isn’t worth watching isn’t worth buying in any format.
--chuckle--
Sony is the only company who can lose a one horse format race.
The death of a competing HD format was supposed to be a good thing. I didn’t get it then, and I don’t get it now.
Is that why HD-DVD was killed by the other manufacturers?
How can Blu-Ray be higher def than HDTV?
I have HDTV and the images are very nice- my question is technical- it can’t have higher definition than 1080p (or i), which I receive digitally
Or if the price of gas ever comes down...
They bought their players. It's a capital investment, not a consumable. You buy one, you have it.
Those who didn't buy one probably don't have HDTVs to plug one into, so there's no point in getting one. Authors of such articles seem to forget that the ~$400 players need a ~$1400 monitor to plug it into ... and most people still don't have HDTVs, and most of them aren't in a hurry to get one.
I keep looking at HDTVs, and keep not getting one. The compression wrecks the potentially pristine image, LCD panels have a jitter that bugs me, Plasma panels have a finite (improving, but still finite) lifespan, rear-projection systems are unwatchably bad (move slightly to the side and image rapidly fades), laser systems just aren't here yet, and whichever way I go the entry cost will be realistically upwards of $4000.
I'll stick with my 27" CRT and Netflix DVDs for now, thanks.
such as?
with DVD players below 50 dollars there is very little incentive to fork out 300 for a blue ray to watch the same garbage.
What is out there?
Anti-amerirca themed movies?
Just look at what bombed at the box office recently.
The content is just not there.
Actually, there was a lot of applause at the REO show I went to in 2002. So there.
Hmmmmf.
I would be in seventh heaven if they ever start remastering some of the old music I like (60's particularly) and putting into one of those HD Audio formats.
When laser systems are cheap enough, that’s probably when we’ll get one.
It took years (unto decades) for CDs and DVDs to penetrate the market to a degree these people are looking to achieve in months ... and those involved formats that didn’t require a whole new audio/video monitor to achieve any benefit at all.
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