Posted on 06/15/2006 8:01:01 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
I've still got my Sony Beta. It's the best format, you know.
Folks who don't get burned by choosing wrong will be burned when they find their High Definition display doesn't have the necessary decryption software to display true high definition. The image will be downgraded to prevent piracy.
How the mass market will vote:
[_] HD-DVD
[_] BR
[*] None of the above
Early adopters, lacking up-to-date HDMI inputs on their
displays, are apt to get screwed, as the analog YPbPr
"HD" output from these "HD" players is reportedly degraded
from full HD.
> The results have been lackluster.
And Sony, being late and continuing to slip, may well
decide to cancel the intro. If Wal-Mart, seeing dour
results so far on HD-DVD, elects to not stock BR,
Sony may have to cancel.
The present offerings are expensive videophile products
that disrespect the videophile. And videophile was never
more than a niche market anyway.
Blu-ray is a much cooler name than HD-DVD. It's like 'Viper' versus 'Elantra'. If you asked people who knew nothing about the technology which they would prefer, they would all want Blu-ray because it sounds better.
I am just giddy with the money I save by not buying anything.
Part of me is even glad to see both formats fail, given the cultural degeneracy in which these companies are involved.
Seems to me that if they chased down where the REAL pirating is happening (China, Russia come to mid) they'd expend less effort crippling the technology they purport to advance.
The Toshiba decks are displaying full resolution from the composite outputs.
There has reportedly been an agreement among the HD-DVD camp to allow full resolution out of component connections until at least 2010.
HD-DVD has one big advantage -- with some modification, the disks can be produced on current DVD manufacturing equipment.
Cool. The next format is more brand new movies from the video rental store that skip right out of the package. Even VHS tapes could be rented a couple of times before they were poor quality. I hope the next format is digital files shared on the internerd.
My parents bought a betamax right off the bat when I was a kid. I liked that thing. Of course, I like records better than cds. I like 8 tracks, too. I have a thing for abandonware formats.
Just wait a couple months until the "I got mine first" crew buys theirs and they'll be $99 at your local drugstore.
Maybe not. I've heard that the PS3's are so delicate that just bumping it will cause it to need repairs. If that is the case, it won't bode well for it's future.
They both suck and both have crazy DRM stuff.
I think I'll just stick with regular DVDs for the time being...
Someone needs to market an HDMI to Composite adaptor.
Between the coming demise of analogue broadcasting (making most US tv receivers obsolete for plain vanilla over the air reception), the DVD format wars, high-definition tv...I would not be surprised to see all but a handful of deep-pocketed consumers...buy nothing at all.
Americans have become used to cheap, good, color tvs. You can still buy one--new analogue sets STILL have no warnings on them about their coming obsolescense.
When the reality sinks in of the death of analogue and the rest, I expect consumers to be angry. Very angry.
Samsung is making one unit that will play both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. I saw Underworld Evolution on Blu-ray. Looks great except the thing costs $40...
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