Comments on: Online Users Show Little Love for Blu-ray?

By: Denver John

Denver John — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:56:50 +0000

First time commenting, just found you guys, love the site!
Is it true that if I want to play my current DVD titles that I can't do that on Blu-Ray and I can do that on HD-DVD? So if Blu-Ray wins and I want to enjoy both, I would either have to add another component to my already filled cabinet…or wait for a Blu-Ray player with a dual lens system to play both discs? If that's the case, I hope HD wins, and from what I'm reading it's half the price of Blu-Ray?? Sounds like HD-DVD should win for the everyday consumer if they are so close, and that Blu-Ray will end up in our computers. Anyone got some insight for me?

By: Speedy

Speedy — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:46:13 +0000

Costa's. I don't believe you :D. HD DVD Discs cost more than Blu-Ray discs :D And besides, 1x HD-DVD is the only discs i've seen being made. :D. But Blu-Ray has atleast 5 writers, as i can remember just now. And discs is about $10 and going down. It's the future. They both use damn same codecs, BD only has more space. I'd rather want that.

By: Kevin C. Redden

Kevin C. Redden — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:03:35 +0000

Personally I'm sick of the format wars, period. Although Sony is definately the MS of the hardware companies to me. Need ANY support from Sony? Good luck. Make a totally new DVD format, instead of just getting together with HD-DVD's people was a brillent idea. I haven't bought a new drive yet, and won't till the prices come down more. But it'll be a combo HD/BR read/writer, and I'll only use HD-DVD formats. Totally bypassing BR. At least if someone sends me a BR disk, I can read it.

It didn't help that there is *4* formats for DVDs now, that's what burned me big time. So if you want holographic storage to take off, settle on 1 standard first otherwise, you might as well kiss it goodby too. 25 years of R&D wasted.

- Kevin

By: Costas

Costas — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:35:43 +0000

Now Rob... I also produce HD video... and (!! Oh My God !!) I can burn it to both HDDVD and BluRay...

Now, about whats the best format? I like both (prefare HDDVD cause of cost right now). The winner? well only time will tell.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:23:29 +0000

Silly. Most people are morons, anyway.

Whether or not Blu-Ray flies, the notion that it is disliked because people resent that PS3s are expensive or hard to come by is ridiculous.

Blu-Ray is a better format than HD-DVD and hopefully the larket will reflect that in the next year.

After all, I produce HD videos for my customers. And I cant burn them to HD-DVD. I can, however, burn Blu-Ray.

Take that, pollsters.

By: hyperhyper

hyperhyper — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:36:43 +0000

"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that."

lol.. statistics.. I stopped believing in them when I took several courses on them in University.
So here is a question based on the disproportionate population sample.

Which websites were "queried"?

I'm sure I could write the same story about HD-DVD if I went to websites that were "Blu-Ray" friendly. The questions I like to ask are "Who pays the editors?" and what do they have to gain from writing these statistically flawed articles? Did they buy an HD-DVD and want to see it win? You are barking up the wrong tree here - show me some cold hard numbers and when you pull some stats out of your *SS, try cleaning it off first. ;)

tata,
/HH

By: Glen Cote

Glen Cote — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:45:26 +0000

Physical media is dead. Download everything!

By: Glen Cote

Glen Cote — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:45:26 +0000

And what ad is playing whilst I read this article? You guessed it; a Blu-ray ad :)