Posted on 05/06/2008 11:04:35 AM PDT by Notary Sojac
Right. On one hand we were discussing the difference between HDTV and BD, on the other we were discussing the differences between BD and DVD. I guess things got a bit mixed up here.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but BD has 5x the resolution than DVD, and twice the resolution of HDTV.
I know you can pull that statement apart technically, but to my eyes it is quite apparent.
Right. On one hand we were discussing the difference between HDTV and BD, on the other we were discussing the differences between BD and DVD.
Most of the discussion has actually been about HD-DVD versus BD. Like BD, HD-DVD is an HD format that has about 50GB per disk.
Fundamentally, the question between HD-DVD and BD is whether you want to cozy up to Microsoft or Sony...
Sorry, but Flash is far more expensive than optical media.
for now.
Jump drives are not routine gifts at conventions so it is only a brief matter of time.
Sorry, but if Flash were ready to supplant optical media, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD wouldn’t have existed in the first place.
For Flash to take over the media market, two things have to happen: one, Flash’s storage capacities have to increase such that we can talk about price per GB, rather than price per MB. Refer to the SSD vs HDD arguments. Two, that per-GB cost needs to become comparable to optical media’s.
You are advocating a format transition that is economically impossible for another decade.
Sony is more involved with Blu-Ray (they invented the laser, they were a founding member of the BD Consortium) than Microsoft is with HD-DVD.
The fundamental question between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is “do you want to buy a format that’s still alive?”
Sure Flash is expensive, but that's mainly because it needs to be erasable. Why not just use a pre-burned ROM, or OTP ROM? The manufacturing process would be cheaper.
You still have the problem of high cost per MB/per GB. Then you need an infrastructure of players to support the things in the first place.
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