Re: Paramount and Dreamworks drop Blu-ray

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:10:31 -0500 Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| In article <fak2rg12hhh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
| wrote:
|
|> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:07:53 -0500 Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@xxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|>
|> | Again, with a 30Gb capacity, you get 3-4 hours of content, so why fuzzy?
|> | The fact is that almost every movie out there can be put on either
|> | format in excellent PQ and AQ. When it isn't, it isn't because of lack
|> | of space, it is because of other reasons.
|>
|> With 50GB you can have more of the same, such as sequels with the original.
|>
| I don't see that happening, although I could be wrong.
|
|> While movies shot at 24 fps won't benefit, some programming could be done
|> at 1080p60 and benefit from the high capacity.
|>
|> And then there's the data use for BR recordable. Do you want to back up
|> 30 GB of your data or 50 GB? In about 2 years both will be at the same
|> price where the cost of the particular technology choice is no longer a
|> factor and the cost of Chinese bulk labor is the primary factor.
|>
| I'm retired and I can back up all my critical data to a cdr with plenty
| of space left over. But that is a good point. BTW, the 51(?)Gb HDDVD
| format is somewhere in the works.

I'm working my way into the last stretch before retirement, and I have
nealy filled my 2TB of USB drives (4x500GB) with backups from several
other disks on 4 computers. I'll need another one soon, but I'm hoping
to hold that off until I finish a couple new SATA-based computers.


|> | And in that case, they made the correct decision I think. But currently
|> | with hi def dvds, the picture all too often is not enough better on a
|> | 40-50" screen at 8-10' viewing distance to entice that majority of the
|> | market to switch over.
|>
|> Let's make the switch now to 3840x2160p120 !!
|>
| NO!!!
|
| I've spent too much money on all these toys as it is! :-)

But America's Top 100 corporations need all your money desperately :-)
(As do many in Japan, Korea, China)

So what's next after HD? Total immersion experience?


| In today's CE world, it isn't about us consumers it is really all about
| the corps. Hence HDMI 1.whatever and counting, DRM out the wazoo and
| owner's manuals and marketing crap that should start with 'once upon a
| time'!

And we buy this stuff.


|> | I don't know about you, but last time I did beta testing for a company,
|> | I got something from them. Either the product after release, or money.
|>
|> They _should_ just go ahead and drop the price down to what we know it
|> will be in a couple years, take the loss, and make up for it when their
|> format wins ... both sides!
|>
| That would be the smartest move, but I don't see it happening. I think
| the corps on both sides are pissed 'cause they didn't get to milk this
| cow long enough.

Or more likely because the cow hasn't come home (consumers are staying
with DVD because they don't really need anything better than their old
multi-dubbed VHS).


|> |> Blu-Ray will also make 1080p60 content viable more easily than HD-DVD
|> |> can.
|> |>
|> | Doing 1080p60 now on HDDVD too, in case you hadn't noticed.
|>
|> But you can get 66% more on BR-DVD.
|>
| Doesn't matter in movies until we get much longer ones.

I like longer movies, personally.


| Both retail prices, total about $748. If the Samsung dually comes in at
| $600 that would be a great deal, even if not cheap enough to attract the
| masses. The new LG is supposedly going to hit the street at $1200, I
| suspect it will be DOA.

At that price, it better make coffee in the morning, too. Oh wait, that's
only $30. Never mind. It's doomed.

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