Re: Gartner: The future is blu

You know I'd like Blu-Ray to win just because I'd hope it would put an end to it but then we'd probably end up with posts like this.

"Blu-Ray gaining on SD-DVD"

"DVD dominance over future is Blu"

"DVD players on clearance"

"Warner drops support for SD-DVD"

"Bluray pays studios to drop DVD"

did sony use to back divx? cause i was reading somewhere that the ps3 pushed divx are something like that. but anyways if i do go blu it wont be until there format is standardize, thats really my only gripe with blu.

Nope - Sony did NOT back Divx.

Divx was a PPV DVD format, full-screen edition only, no extras, was supported primarily by Fox and Disney, and also Paramount and Dreamsworks. Retail support by Circuit City, and player support by Zenith and RCA. It started in Sept 1998, and was discontinued in July 1999.

From the beginning of standard DVD, Sony was one of the leading supporters of the format (along with Warner), and each company early on released most of their discs in 16x9 Anamorphic editions.

-LH (The Loverboy)
~ DUAL HI-DEF FORMAT SUPPORTER ~

At least the world will know that few stood against many and that even a god-king(sony) can bleed.

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[Post edited by chemteam on Jan 29, 2008]

I've always preferred (and still do) HD DVD, and I'm willing to predict Blu-ray a winner. I said that the day WB made their announcement because I knew that's all it would take, and it did.

But admitting that doesn't make Blu-ray a good product. It's flat out bad all the way around. You watch. Build those pretty Blu libraries all you want. I'll rent 'em, but I'm not falling for this whole Blu-ray thing either...it's potentially the winner, but it's garbage.

I do wonder why Toshiba is going to bother with their Superbowl ads. They may as well go to the casino and put it all down on one hand of blackjack. At least that way they have a chance to double it. Well, no they wouldn't...casinos cheat too.

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[Post edited by JPSofCA on Jan 29, 2008]

The only reason blu is winning is because Sony is using Money and Incentives to lure Company's to go Blu... This war is not going to be won by the consumer but by the monopolization of these Studios/Retailers (Blockbuster)rentals)...

Blu-ray isn't any more superior then HD... (Vid/Sound quality)
Tho, from exp. i think HD is better or more consumer friendly...
And whats with all the profiles 1.0/1.1 now 2.0 Sony hasn't even fixed the glitches in the first profile and now there talking about 2.0 ???
And everytime a new movie comes out, your going to have too wait for the new firmware to play it. So you cant watch it for a couple of months after it has come out... What the hell is that !!!

I have a blu-ray and HD player i have had a few problems with blue and none with HD.
HD has better support and far better players.
HD is cheaper to manufacture & players, and is a simpler format.

Video/Sound quality should be the same on blue and HD, but is based on how well the company's that do the hd transfer, i feel in most cases that HD does a better job at doing this.

So What that blue has more capacity, blue and HD don't use any more then 25-30g of space on their discs.
King Kong on HD is 182mins long...

HD has a nice feature with there HD-DVD combo disks.
HD has Ethernet connections.

Don`t get me wrong i like Sony and they do make good products (I own some), But it doesn't mean that their God... I just don't like the way they are going about winning this format war, forcing us to choose a format and not letting us make our own decision ???

motogp34, your post is so early 2007'ish!

Glad you were able to read it