Re: HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray - who cares?
- From: phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx
- Date: 18 Feb 2008 21:49:58 GMT
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:33:04 -0500 riggor <riggor9999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I see people taking "sides" and proclaiming victory of one format over
| another.
|
| My question is - who really cares? I believe (my own very humble opinion)
| that the majority of people, including myself, are waiting for one format -
| whichever format it is (turns out it's Blu-Ray) - to dominate before
| spending money on buying a HD or Blu-Ray player.
I cared. I wanted the format with the larger capacity. The reason for
that was so it would become a cheap optical disk media for my computer.
As it turns out, I later found out about the profile issues with BluRay
and the apparent risks that current players won't work with new discs in
the future. So maybe HD-DVD would have been better for video.
Now I don't care. This is because I have now decided I don't want either.
They didn't really let the market decide on this at all. They should have
done so. But instead, they played games with the movie producers, who I
consider to be equally guilty if they chose to produce movies in only one
format before the final decision was made.
| Does the average Joe know or care of the technical merits of one format over
| another? Unlike VHS vs Beta, we all have DVD players so the move to one HD
| format over another is not a mandatory move. It's an evolutionary move.
Was VHS to DVD mandatory? Sure, VHS is essentially disappearing. There
is almost no content on VHS anymore, rental or purchase. It's hard to
find blank tapes.
Certainly fewer people will move from DVD to the next generation DVD,
compared to VHS to DVD.
| VHS / Beta was the introduction of video tape - so people had to pick one
| over the other - there was nothing that was already a standard - so people
| could not take a wait and see position. LaserDisc on the other hand - is
| like the HD / Blu-Ray of today. By that point we all had VHS and waited to
| see if LaserDisc was going to get cheaper and popular. It never did.
I took a wait and see on VHS / Beta. I bought VHS only after Beta was dead.
| Even though we all had VHS - the move to DVD was rather quick. VHS reached
| it's limit of visual quality, cheap HW and commodity products . Eventually
| DVD came to one standard, rapid influx of inexpensive players, better
| quality / features over VHS - no brainer.
There was a "last breath" of digital VHS. It was doomed, anyway, since
DVD was as convenient as CD.
| I have a HDTV, and upscaling progressive DVD player and all is well.
| Perhaps it's just me - but I am in no real hurry to upgrade until Blu-Ray
| becomes the DVD of today.
I have only a regular DVD player (no upscale). Likewise, I am in no hurry
to upgrade until not only does BluRay become the DVD of the day, but also
the things I want to watch come out in re-encoded HD (e.g. old films need
to be re-converted from the original, not just upscaled from the SD video).
As for my computer, I've now decided to not go with BluRay there, either.
Memory cards like CF or SDHC, or USB flash keys, are the way I am going.
They are still expensive, but they are reliable even when re-recorded over.
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