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Old 12-08-2006, 11:15 PM   #16
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Don't care, I wont support either of them until the price is low

not reletively low

not low for what it does

real, and genuinly low.
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Old 12-08-2006, 11:28 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by exhausted mules
isn't sony the biggest player in the digital disc format market?


if "blue-ghey" loses, i'll be very surprised.
no its Philips


Edit- RC beat me to it
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Old 12-08-2006, 11:49 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by RC45
Originally Posted by goodduck
I read somewhere that the sony beta max was actually a superior format but died anyway.
This is true in many ways.
Beta is still being used today by Television studios; it never died, it just went higher-end; and more expensive, and more limited
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Old 12-09-2006, 12:19 AM   #19
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the results won't be known for years....the movies that are out now for either format are shit....blu-ray will take it since its got the most support and they'll sell 2 million + ps3s....
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=747
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Old 12-09-2006, 12:21 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Max Power
the results won't be known for years....the movies that are out now for either format are shit....blu-ray will take it since its got the most support and they'll 2 million + ps3s....

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=747
vs 10 million HD DVD?

who knows

I stand by what I said

It wouldn't suprise me to see blu ray become the TV tech standard; yet unable to win in the mass consumer market.

the sad thing is, people actually shelled out 600$ for a PS3 because its the cheapest Blu Ray on the market.... yet, sony controls the price, and will maintain levels to keep the PS3 wihtin a margin, until outside-ish forces force sony to drop the retail on blu ray consumer players...
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Old 12-09-2006, 12:29 AM   #21
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initial launch for hd -dvd players was 100,000....blu-ray will kill that with in a month of ps3 release...toshiba is the only one relatively speaking making the players...it will not be able to keep up with Panasonic, LG, Samsung, Sony for developement, marketing or lower costs later on...Most of studios are behind blu-ray although a lot of them are releasing for both...bd is got too much backing for Sony to fuck it up this time

http://www.blu-raydisc.com/Section-1...s/4/Index.html
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6394173.html

Originally Posted by twboy1999
so far blue ray sucks compare to hddvd

blue ray still using mpeg2 decoding

it has the potential to be better cuz it holds more dadta,, but thats in the future

and more movie on hd dvd then blueray
BD vs HD DVD
BD max bitrate: 54 Mbit/s
HD DVD max bitrate: 36.55 Mbit/s
And they use the same codecs...

Initial versions of Sony's Blu-ray Disc-authoring software only included support for MPEG-2 video, so the initial Blu-ray Discs were forced to use MPEG-2 rather than the newer codecs, VC-1 and H.264. An upgrade was subsequently released supporting the newer compression methods so the second wave of Blu-ray Disc titles were able to make use of this. The choice of codecs affects disc cost (due to related licensing/royalty payments) as well as program capacity. The two more advanced video codecs can typically achieve twice the video runtime of MPEG-2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
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Old 12-14-2006, 04:22 PM   #22
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Not really HD-DVD vs Blueray, but DVD vs HD -

http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/index.html

Move your cursor over the image to see the difference.
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Old 12-14-2006, 04:25 PM   #23
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link doesn't work
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Old 12-15-2006, 12:25 AM   #24
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yeah
hd-dvd from that link
seems alot more clear
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Old 12-17-2006, 05:08 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by Engadget
Nothing like a little false hope to brighten your Saturday, right? Of course, we hope the current stalemate in the Blu-ray / HD DVD war actually yields a combo player, but after the on-again / off-again (and again) love affair with the idea, we're not holding our collective breath.

Nevertheless, it seems that the current state actually doesn't have one format trouncing the other as many believed would happen after a few months unfolded. Essentially, consumers are "generally indifferent" to the two, and considering there's just seven more HD DVD titles currently available than BD titles, it doesn't look like one or the other will win on sheer studio popularity. While we've seen the Blu-ray-equipped PS3 outsell Microsoft's HD DVD drive 5 to 1, there isn't much substance in such a statistic, but apparently Taiwan-based manufacturers are rethinking their previous denials of unleashing a player that handles both discs.

DigiTimes has it that Samsung is "planning to offer dual-format recorders that can record and play back BD and HD DVD movies," while Hitachi (a devout member of the BDA), is also "considering production of dual-format devices." They also went so far as to point out the obvious when noting that a "dual-format device would be more expensive than a single-format unit" -- but hey, it's likely cheaper than buying one of each, eh?
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/16/b...-combo-player/
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Old 01-05-2007, 02:38 PM   #26
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http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-...yer-160688.php

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jh...technologyNews

LG officially announced it will develop a dual-format Blu-ray and HD DVD player, and analysts are saying that the company plans to launch the much-rumored device this fall. John Taylor, a US spokesman for LG, said

LG is a supporter of Blu-ray and is now considering a dual format player for later this year.

Last week, LG became the second member of the Blu-ray club that said it would also support HD DVD. The first was HP, which should be credited for having the presence of mind to be the first to decide to straddle the fence in this absurd replay of the VHS/Betamax wars.
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Old 01-06-2007, 01:16 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by RC45
BetaMax lost... Blu-Ghey will lose..

Sony is good at backing the loser
Wow - talk about eating my own words here ..

I guess Blu-Ghey is the winner for me.. hehe
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Old 01-06-2007, 01:30 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by RC45
Originally Posted by RC45
BetaMax lost... Blu-Ghey will lose..

Sony is good at backing the loser
Wow - talk about eating my own words here ..

I guess Blu-Ghey is the winner for me.. hehe
LOL!

Just had to be from you that RC, just had to be
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Old 01-06-2007, 01:32 PM   #29
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Its different this time around and I bet they will both do just fine, I guess the real winner will be the first to offer a cheap mutil format machine.

I remember the "war" between dvd-r and dvd +r I think they are both still around right ?
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Old 01-06-2007, 02:21 PM   #30
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I remember the "war" between dvd-r and dvd +r I think they are both still around right ?
Very true!

But what about Vcr Vs Betamax
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