Blu-ray Player.. That'll be $1500 please

[Burnsy2023]

thats hardly the same

HDD and bluray would be like if BETAMAX and VHS were both going strong,

I doubt that:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/06/lg_blu-ray_hd-dvd_plans/

Burnsy

Edit:

LG - which signed an optical disc drive pact with HD DVD leader Toshiba in February - now seems to believe a dual-format player would be a better product to ship than one supporting just one of the two rival next-generation formats.

 

[cleanbluesky]

As far as fitting loads of videos on 1 disc, do you really want to buy the complete masteroworks of VanDamme?

Personally I would rather buy my movies one at a time...

 

[DailyGeek]

do you really want to buy the complete masteroworks of VanDamme?

HELL YEAH!

 

[SpicyDuck]

I'll wait for dual Blue-ray, HD-DVD and DVD players.

Paying that much now, for something that will be significantly less in one years time is not really worth it, to be honest.

Phil.

 

[cleanbluesky]

I'll wait for BluRay dual layer burners with built-in 180gb flash storage and telepathic programme recording and a shiny blue light on the front and says "HELLO" when you turn it on

 

[Berserker]

My hi-fi says "HELLO" when I turn it on. What's your point?

 

[saitrix]

Obviously has no mates so needs a burner to talk to him.

 

["andy"]

wait so in september a blue ray player will cost $1500

isnt the ps3 "supposed" to be released around then and doesnt it play blueray discs ?

 

[FeFiDoh]

ps2 is nov and yeah its got blu-ray but the standard of PS2 dvd players in all honesty is shocking lol

 

[VeNT]

either its gonna work, ie they will release movies on the format when its relsesed, or its gonna fail, like mini disks, they didn't put enough albums out on MD for anyone to WANT it

 

[Sequoia]

We also had to buy two 1 gig SCSI hard drives at a £1000 each because you put your files on the first and using the DOS software you made an image on the second and then burnt it.

I'd forgotton about that. I had two Micropolis 2.1GB AV drives, in external cases. They made a rather neat little stack, with the inter-drive connectors all built into the cases. Come to think of it, I've still got them. Wonder what they're worth now?

My experience was that if you were doing audio work, you really needed the AV drives, because the thermal calibration lag in standard drives had an annoying habit of turning CDR blanks into coasters, and at £15 PER DISK eek that wasn't funny ... if it happened several times on the trot. So if you had actually got around to using that drive for your band, I hope those 1GB drives didn't suffer from the TCAL problem.

But then, those were the days of seriously expensive PC hardware. Somewhere I've still got a full-height Miniscribe 338MB that cost me £1500. And yes, that's 338 MEGAbyte, not GB.

And somewhere, I've got a contraption that let you use 5 special high capacity floppies in an autochanger mechanism to give 6MB (1.2MB per floppy). That little beauty was also a cool £1500, and ran off an Apple II system.

 

["andy"]

so was the quality of early dvd players ,

i certainly wont be buying one on release anyway. ill be waiting till the likes of alba start making them

 

[Sequoia]

Paying that much now, for something that will be significantly less in one years time is not really worth it, to be honest.

That depends what you need it for. That £4000 CD player paid for itself several times over on the first project I used it for. But for personal, home use, I'd guess you're right.

 

[cleanbluesky]

That depends what you need it for. That £4000 CD player paid for itself several times over on the first project I used it for. But for personal, home use, I'd guess you're right.

Was it a legal project?

 

[Redrum]

+/-/RAM anyone ?

That analagy is not quite the same though, as thats a home writting technology, so there only has to be 5 different discs in production, whereas if both blue-ray and hd-dvd survive, then the movie studios would have to release 2 versions of every single film, and its not just a difference in equipement, there are big technical differences with the digital format of the actual content. HP have announce a dual drive though that will read both.

Theres an interesting article in this months pc format that explains the whole situation and differences. The thing that concerns me is it talks about the copy protection on them that will mean not only will your graphics card have to be specifically hi-def complient, but every component of your pc.

 

[Sequoia]

Was it a legal project?

Yes, absolutely. Legal, ethical and morally justifiable. It wasn't piracy, it wasn't porn and it wasn't anything of that type. Just a business deal.

 

[Berserker]

I've still got a 20MB (yup, megabytes) hard disk. Worked last time I turned it off (circa 1994). What are the odds it'd spin up now if I tried to power it on? I'd love to give it a whirl (along with the PC it's in), but I'm somewhat scared of it doing something very nasty to my house.

 

[pyro]

Give it to the orphans and see what happens

 

[Efaws]

1500 is ridiculous, but the prices will go down, and fast

even if the psu launches at 500-600$, people might just buy it as a blue ray player than a console, as its more furture proof, expandable and cheaper, pushing up sonys market share and ousting xbox 360 totally

could be their secret plan, as i can see people wanting a blue ray player when they have their HDTVs, but i cant see them paying 1500, when they can get a console and blue ray player for $600, theyll fly off the shelves despite the 360 being 400 and probably 250/300$ by then

 

[GSXRMovistar]

I've still got a 20MB (yup, megabytes) hard disk.

Lol I had one of those in my first PC, one of these beasts

286 processor, 640K memory, 20Mb drive, and a nice Gas Plasma CGA screen to warm your hands on.