Blu-Ray (FFS)!

032Devil

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Was at HMV the other day and it seems Blu-Ray is replacing the common DVD.

HMV seem to be doing a killing on the common DVD by offering loads of titles very cheaply during their sale.

Getting a bit sick of building up a collection (VHS) replace it with DVD and they've just been superceded by Blu-ray! Then of course, there's the option of downloading films on a hard drive but that technology has to improve considerably to allow for the building of a film collection on a computer.

And no doubt that in the next few years another new technology will be launched that will replace Blu-Ray! The only people who are winning all the way to the bank are the sellers!


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i just trowed out 200 VHS movies the other day. fecking heavy boxes.....if you think about it in couple of years 200 movies will be stored on a 3 inch plastic card.
 
032Devil said:
Was at HMV the other day and it seems Blu-Ray is replacing the common DVD.

HMV seem to be doing a killing on the common DVD by offering loads of titles very cheaply during their sale.

Getting a bit sick of building up a collection (VHS) replace it with DVD and they've just been superceded by Blu-ray! Then of course, there's the option of downloading films on a hard drive but that technology has to improve considerably to allow for the building of a film collection on a computer.

And no doubt that in the next few years another new technology will be launched that will replace Blu-Ray! The only people who are winning all the way to the bank are the sellers!


:mad:
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Well, you can't store high definition video on a DVD. Blu-ray was designed to do that.

And remember, a BD drive will still play your DVDs.
 
WeasteDevil said:
Well, you can't store high definition video on a DVD. Blu-ray was designed to do that.

And remember, a BD drive will still play your DVDs.
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What it is is sheer exploitation.

They used to say DVDs were better than LPs. That wasn't the case was it? An LP will play every time but a DVD can be moody: a friend of mine has got an older music centre and it won't play half of her discs.

If I remember correctly, DVDs and Blu-Ray were discovered roughly the same time - but businesses decided to exploit both discoveries at a substantial cost to the consumers.

They've already have the technology to market both BD writers and disks that can hold 100gbs of info. Why not market them rather than market BDs that only hold about 25gbs?

5 to 10 years down the line they'll market the 100gb or 200gb BDs to exploit consumers.
 
032Devil said:
Whatever! It's sheer exploitation.

They used to say DVDs were better than LPs. That wasn't the case was it? An LP will play every time but a DVD can be moody: a friend of mine has got an older music centre and it won't play half of her discs.

If I remember correctly, DVDs and Blu-Ray were discovered roughly the same time - but businesses decided to exploit both discoveries at a substantial cost to the consumers.

They've already have the technology to market both BD writers and disks that can hold 100gbs of info. Why not market them rather than market BDs that only hold about 25gbs?

5 to 10 years down the line they'll market the 100gb or 200gb BDs to exploit consumers.
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Are you sure you haven't mixed some facts?
 
LPs sound great when they are new. . . but not as great when they get older. CDs sound pretty much the same even after they get used a lot.
 
032Devil said:
They've already have the technology to market both BD writers and disks that can hold 100gbs of info. Why not market them rather than market BDs that only hold about 25gbs?

5 to 10 years down the line they'll market the 100gb or 200gb BDs to exploit consumers.
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They have the technology, but they cannot market the 3 layer plus BDs, it's not economical. The disc itself will not change, it's just that older players will not be able to get at layer 3 upwards without modification.

The PS3 BTW can read double layer Blu-ray, which is 50Gb. Current High Definition doesn't need any more than that. It only becomes an issue when we have 5000x3000 pixel displays, and that is a long way off.
 
032Devil said:
If I remember correctly, DVDs and Blu-Ray were discovered roughly the same time - but businesses decided to exploit both discoveries at a substantial cost to the consumers.
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One uses a red laser, the other a blue one, but yes, just like CDs, they are both optical discs. Blue diodes were very expensive to create in the past, and were obviously not that easy to make until recently. It was the main reason the launch of the PS3 was delayed for a year. They could not reliably mass-manufacture the blue diodes to good yield.
 
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