Re: Microsoft Now 100% Behind HD DVD

ZnU wrote
(in article <znu-3F8C02.18161605022006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

It is in this case, sice capacity is about the only technical difference
between the formats.

Then either one is good enough, and no matter which one wins,
consumers will have a better format than DVD, which has already
been WILDLY successful. DRM issues are the only problem here.

So hours and hours of hi-def isn't enough for you? Do you plan on
watching movies that last all day long? Who wants to? Who needs to
watch it without interruption and without changing media?

As I've pointed out before, the larger capacity would be pretty handy
for TV shows; it would reduce the number of discs you needed per season.

I keep forgetting that some people still watch TV. Chewing gum
for the mind.

Or, are you hoping for a new backup medium? Given that hard drive
prices are on the floor, the best backup is an entire drive.

Hard drives are just fine for 'active' backups, but they're not a good
choice if you just want archive a bunch of stuff and stick it in your
closet.

Sure they are. An external firewire drive in say 250GB or 500GB
capacity makes for an excellent, relatively safe storage format.
Recent research on the shelf-life of burned media indicates
that storing CD or DVD burned media in the closet might be a
hole lot less reliable, and certainly less convenient.

They're also a really bad choice if you e.g. want to give
someone 50 GB of files. With a hard drive, you have to arrange to copy
everything to their media; with a disc, you can just hand them
something.

Unless they bring over their own portable drive and ask you to
fill it up. It's also less time consuming and cheaper if you do
it often.

I work with digital video fairly often, and it would be
really nice to be able to toss entire FCP projects onto a single disc.

It's even nicer to toss them onto a jumbo raid system and forget
about them.

And the majority of the population will be renting media at the store
or buying it online, not looking to the playstation for direction.
When you can buy a player for your living room for a reasonable price
and buy movies mastered onto it from Amazon, then there will be a
chance for replacing current DVD.

Uh, a PS3 *is* a player for your living room, which is effectively free
if you were going to buy it as a gaming system anyway.

If it's anything at all like the PS2 in quality, it'll be a
piece of *** that is unreliable and prone to breaking easy,
with marginal picture quality compared to the dedicated players.

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