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In Reply to: BBC's Planet Earth series a "killer app" for HD DVD? posted by 4season on May 4, 2007 at 22:11:50:
I'd wait until players which support DTS HD MA become available before buying one. Also, expect the price of next generation players to drop. OTOH, I couldn't wait when I found out about the LG combo player.All other things being equal, I'll opt for the Blu-Ray version over HD-DVD. Re: Blu-Ray has higher storage capacity (translation: better ability to hold higher bitrate video and audio) and better studio support. HD-DVD may be cheaper (now), but sometimes you get what you pay for. The only thing good coming out of this format war might be Sony et al won't be able to gouge you on Blu-ray player pricing if HD DVD players continue to be fairly "cheap".
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The effect of lowing the price of HD DVD is running out.see link
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Actually, what a variation of that data suggests to me is that while Blu-Ray is currently supported by more studios, when a program is available in both formats HD DVD sells about as well, or slightly better.It also suggests to me that, aside from an occasional gem like those BBC documentaries, I won't be purchasing too many HD movies in either format just yet. That could change if The Criterion Collection ever gets in the game!
Weekly numbers are worthless. Still waiting for the *BIG* PS3 effect. 3 million PS3s sold, 1 million Blu-ray discs sold. Yea, I'm impressed. Both formats together are less than 1% of DVD.Jack
You know, about 18 months ago I was so sure Blu-Ray was already the winner, what with the much broader industry support and Sony's hot Playstation 3 poised to be the trojan horse that got Blu-Ray into millions of homes disguised as a hot game console.But I've since come to the conclusion that:
-PS/3 seems to be selling more slowly than expected due to price and a dearth of must-have exclusive games
-The spike in Blu-Ray movie sales was probably due to promotions (free movies with PS/3) and PS/3 owners trying to find some use for their $600 brick, but this won't necessarily translate into ongoing movie sales.
-The situation with movie studio support can change fast if they sense they're pouring money down a bottomless pit: Universal Media Disk (UMD) also started off with major movie studio backing, but this evaporated pretty quickly
-I already wanted a DVD player that could scale standard DVD video to 1080p, and $400 doesn't sound like an unreasonable price for that, plus the HD capabilities.
Again, HD-DVD is currently cheaper, but the higher storage capacity with Blu-Ray could make Blu-Ray a keeper.There's a whiff of a hope that Blu-Ray offers a more robust (?) DRM scheme than HD-DVD and probably explains why Blu-Ray has most of the studio support currently. OTOH, I'm skeptical any DRM scheme is going to survive the hackers.
I vaguely recall reading the lack of "cheap" blu-ray players is the lack of cheap Blu-Ray ROM drives. This is alleged to be about to change this summer.
My 9-5 job involves IT matters, and I've thought of BD-R as a possible backup medium, but at the moment, it's not looking super compelling because I don't really know how archival it will be, and hard disk storage is super cheap.Both Blu-Ray and HD DVD use AACS encryption, and at the rate things are going, that will be fully and irrevocably cracked pretty soon, and that's fine with me, because I want to be able to watch those movies on my existing computer and elsewhere.
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