Future of DVDs etc
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It already has taken off. Have you seen the sales?
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no ? whats your viewing distance then at 50", I regularly watch DVD's on a 100" screen on my old panny projector @ 576p (720x576) and it's more than fine.
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I did, but I bought the bluray player to play PS3 games on
and I think it's actually a 28" tube tv.
One day I'll get round to claiming my tax back for this year and buy a big TV, then maybe I'll start to buy some BRs.
edit: I love watching HD content on my PC though (20" ws), it's like watching a DVD with my specs on, but I don't have to put my specs on
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quite right, however they did try to force hdi on the industry, and that failed didnt it, with sony adopting bd-java instead. there was an interesting article posted over at avforums a week or so ago, i wonder just how true it is? it certainly all seems to fit. its a lot to read but do read it
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/21/lessons-from-the-death-of-hd-dvd/
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quite right, however they did try to force hdi on the industry, and that failed didnt it, with sony adopting bd-java instead. there was an interesting article posted over at avforums a week or so ago, i wonder just how true it is? it certainly all seems to fit. its a lot to read but do read it
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/21/lessons-from-the-death-of-hd-dvd/
Seems to have a significant anti-MS vein running through it, without knowing the author and his intentions it's difficult to read seriously, for example:
"Windows XP has floated along as the default choice for PC consumers, but when Microsoft tried to raise the price and tack on fluff features with the Vista rebranding, buyers demanded to upgrade to the previous version."
This has been debated for years in the windows forum, to say vista is crap because it's XP rebranded with some extra bits shows that the author either hasn't read up the subject or is ignoring large areas.
"Its hardware partners have been led on wild goose chases with WinCE, desktop Windows, PlaysForSure, and now HD-DVD, leaving alliances with Microsoft looking more like charity exercises than business decisions."
Is he really trying to say that MS is making billions of dollars profit on the back of being a charity case?
for every failure MS has had you could add dozens of success stories."That’s very bad news for a company that exists solely as a licensee of third rate product ideas."
I think that statement sums up the attitude of the author, to me it reads as a very cleverly disguised anti-MS rant that uses facts to underwrite some simply absurd statements.
Interesting read though, but half the article could be ripped apart in a sensible debate.
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What will probably start to happen now that Blu-Ray is the winner is that films will still be released on DVD but prices will probably start going up as production transfers over to Blu-Ray making Blu-Ray more attractive. Also in an effort to really push the new format the produces will probably only release Uber Special Collectors Director's Re-Edited Edition on Blu-Ray.
Wonder if the ability to see scenes from different angles will finally come to Blu-Ray as well, I remember this was one of the things promised on DVDs when they first came out?
Wonder if the ability to see scenes from different angles will finally come to Blu-Ray as well, I remember this was one of the things promised on DVDs when they first came out?
to be honest im in no hurry to go out and buy a BR player for my plasma. nothing about it screams "BUY ME!" when my current DVD player is perfectly good. i think a lot of people (especially non-techie people) will be thinking the same thing.
I guess it depends on what sales figure you call "mass-market"
Agree DVD is a long way from being dead. But HD TV's are now the only TV you can buy these days at >=23" screen size so the majority of people with an HD TV probably don't have an HD source anyway! I can promise you, HD is easily noticable at 32" screen size.
show us, BR sales are piddling next to DVD sales. It hasn't 'taken off' yet.
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if you compare sales to something thats been established for a long time now, of course it isnt going to fair as well. im wondering, how is it doing compared to the first few years of dvd sales?
Much more of a realistic comparison - and even then BR/HD-DVD where both hampered for the first year due to two incompatible (but similar)formats
DVD didnt have any real competitors for the first few years (as it was a vhs replacement)
I don't predict DVD will ever disappear so long as standalone players are around, given that all new standlone players whether they be HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or whatever else there may be in the future, are all backwards compatible with DVD.
I think what's more likely to be happen is eventually standalone players will disappear, and we will have TVs that are net capable and/or have the ability to plug flash drives into (with content being sold on those).
I think what's more likely to be happen is eventually standalone players will disappear, and we will have TVs that are net capable and/or have the ability to plug flash drives into (with content being sold on those).
My flatmate bought a big ol' 28" Tube tv brand new at christmas - so you're claim is obviously false.