rip hd dvd

**docKnubis** · 04-25-2008 02:15 AM

why didnt any one tell me that hd dvds lost the high format war?

come i was like ya hddvd... hd hd hd ...dvd

no actually i was behind blue ray all the time

long live king blue ray

**Sornaensis** · 04-25-2008 02:16 AM

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**Grod** · 04-25-2008 02:18 AM

I can't see any difference between the two, they lookk identical to me.

**Sornaensis** · 04-25-2008 02:22 AM

But Grod!

How can you say that! There are clearly two pixels on the left of your average Widescreen, HD tv that just look absolutely marvelous in BluRay.

**AmazeO XD** · 04-25-2008 02:53 AM

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

But Grod!

How can you say that! There are clearly two pixels on the left of your average Widescreen, HD tv that just look absolutely marvelous in BluRay.

Who the fuck cares. Everyone wanted Blu-ray to succeed because anyone who wants to buy a Blu-ray player would just buy a PS3 because its a cheap Blu-ray player.

**Sornaensis** · 04-25-2008 02:59 AM

You're telling me that the average BluRay player costs more than Four Hundred dollars?

wat

**Wavefunction** · 04-25-2008 03:07 AM

This thread is going to take a walk to Tech Talk now.

**AmazeO XD** · 04-25-2008 03:09 AM

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

You're telling me that the average BluRay player costs more than Four Hundred dollars?

wat

Price for a Quality blu-ray player

**Ynot** · 04-25-2008 09:24 AM

the hi-def format war took so long, they'll likely be redundant in 2-3 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

**Identity X** · 04-25-2008 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by Ynot

the hi-def format war took so long, they'll likely be redundant in 2-3 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

Not necessarily... BluRay has enough capacity to store an HD movie, and that's what they're for. I think market success is more about fuctionally than sheer capacity. Any production made today, whether it is a film or game, will have serious trouble even making the slightest dent on an HVD, so with the exception of data storage and backup, the HVD is kinda redundant right now...

**Ynot** · 04-25-2008 01:26 PM

films on physical media is pretty much dying on it's feet
(there'll always be some market for it, but downloadable content is really coming into it's own now)

there's subscription services popping up now, that download a film onto a set-top box - either to buy or to rent for x days

current services need a fast net connection
and can grab a DVD in 10 mins, and hi-def in 1 hour

it's more prevalent in Europe than the US or UK at present
(Sweden has 100Mbps duplex Ethernet into homes as standard - the best we can do is 20Mbps)

physical media (really) is going to be more about data storage and archiving, than films / music

**ninja9578** · 04-25-2008 02:26 PM

Sucks for Microsoft who was betting on HD-DVDs winning.

**Replicon** · 04-26-2008 03:07 AM

I thought the porn industry chose HD-DVD, and that it would be the clincher

**theSheep** · 04-27-2008 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ynot

the hi-def format war took so long, they'll likely be redundant in 2-3 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

holy shit!!!!!!!!!! 3.9 tb!?

wow, it'd be awesome having a drive that can read those, and then you'd have like 3 discs for each operating system, and you can just put the hvd operating suystem u want!