K'dash Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 No prblm..Me keep quite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamerZ-Cloud Strife Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 .......don't Mind.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 A good read (a few excerpts from the article): http://www.tvpredictions.com/2007/10/blu-r...is-winning.html 1. Neither side is selling well. Quite frankly, the sales numbers from both formats remain pathetic. This may be a war with no winner. A lot of fuss was made by Warner about the sales of 300 reaching 300,000 combined on both formats. One problem, the DVD sold several millions. Quite a difference. 2. The real war is High Definition media vs. DVD. With sales of a disc on either format being a small percentage of their DVD counterpart, it is clear that the public does not see enough of a benefit to either format to pay the extra cost. The public is very happy with the quality of DVD on their HD sets. The difference between HD and BD and DVD on sets under 50 inches is not all that great and not enough to get people to spend exorbitant amounts of money for the players and the discs. With upconverting players available for well under $100 and new releases available on DVD for $13.99 and catalogue titles for under $10.00, most people do not see the need for players over $200 and discs priced at $34.99 and up. Why spend $34.99 for the new Fantastic Four BD disc when the DVD can be had for $14.99? For most consumers, that is a no brainer. 6. Sony may win the format war but at what cost? Sony’s gaming division is already suffering huge losses due to the PS3. While the PS3 has helped give BD the edge, although not much of one, the high cost of the players and lack of games has made it a loser in the console wars, which is much more important than the home theater market. HD media will be obsolete due to downloads long before the gaming market moves on to some other form of distribution. 10. Despite the claims of technical superiority from the BDA, both camps can produce outstanding looking and sounding products. With the VC-1 and AVC codecs, the BD capacity advantage is not much of one at all in the real world. Nor is the higher bitrate encodes possible on BD as evidenced by the recent Nature’s Journey disc reviewed here. V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Let us keep our games and consoles aside for a while. Let us look at what the rest of the world thinks about this format war. After all we are neither american nor japanese, so why get emotional. We, Indian buyers, deserve the best out of our hard earned money. Theoritical Limit. http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/19/blu-ray...ion-s-division/ Why BLU will win. http://www.gearlog.com/2006/12/why_bluray_will_win.php BLU the winner. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=175803712 BLU has already won. http://gizmodo.com/archives/bluray-has-alr...-won-023974.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 BLU has already won.http://gizmodo.com/archives/bluray-has-alr...-won-023974.php that article was published in 2004. bro, thats 3+ years ago! :roflroll2: V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 If BLU wins M$ will support it - U.K. MS head Neil Thompson. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15568 PS: Had I been an irresponsible and immature boarder I would have said, "If BLU wins M$ will lick it's balls". But I am not. Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 BLU-RAY wins a battle in the HD war - US News and World Report. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/artic...070624/2dvd.htm Like I said, let us keep the gaming outta it and then see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Blu-Ray wins a battle in the DVD format wars June 18, 2007 http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/200...vd-format-wars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 ^^ refrain from using multiple posts that provide similar information. V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 As Vinit posted yesterday, the HD format wars are meaningless at the moment because standard DVDs outsell the next gen formats by an embarassing margin. Admittedly, the offtake of HD format players has also been slow and if not for the PS3, Blu Ray would probably be trailing HD-DVD (kudos to Sony on that move). But we cant actually draw parallels to the Betamax / VHS war because at that time they were competing to be the standard for home video where no prior affordable standard existed at all. In the current HD wars, consumers have the choice of the best selling format of all time in the form of the standard DVD which still provides great picture quality thanks to DVD-9, and is comparable to the HD formats on smaller screens which the majority of the world is currently using. My final cent: It will take another 5 years before the HD battle starts to shake itself down and by then a new, superior format will hog eyeballs. There are already three competing formats being developed for Ultra High Definition Video (7,680 × 4,320) and movies are today being shot at this resolution before being downscaled to HD resolutions. This will give you taste : Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 ^ one minute of uncompressed footage consumes 194 gigabytes (2 hours of full length movie will use roughly 25 terabytes of storage) :ko2: V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 ^^ Exactly. Current HD formats are still not comparable to Ultra Hi-Def video. One of my clients from my previous job runs the largest chain of theatres in India and is converting all them to digital theatres in a staggered manner. I had the chance to see actual UHDV video being played out. It was a music video. I nearly passed out at the quality. It was the most wonderous thing I've ever seen in video and I kept pestering him to see if he could get his hands on the Star Wars Ep 1-3 digital masters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DIRECTOR Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 this is an endless battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 ^^ Not really. HD-DVD and Blu Ray will most likely be crushed by another, far superior, format within the next 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 hmm thts food for thought...wat makes you say tht Mt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Refer to the Wikipedia link a posts up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightySkate Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 In the next 5 yrs huh... mean time we shell out our money on exclusive movies on either hd-dvd or br and end up being the losers when a better format appears. When is this cycle gonna end :cry5: I know it happened with the launch of the dvd, but i hope the studios or whoever's responsible for this come up with a better deal for the us the consumers, because i'd hate to have a movie in multiple formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ne0 Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 I doubt if either of these will succeed as much as DVD....or even come close to it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 ^^ Exactly. Current HD formats are still not comparable to Ultra Hi-Def video. One of my clients from my previous job runs the largest chain of theatres in India and is converting all them to digital theatres in a staggered manner. I had the chance to see actual UHDV video being played out. It was a music video. I nearly passed out at the quality. It was the most wonderous thing I've ever seen in video and I kept pestering him to see if he could get his hands on the Star Wars Ep 1-3 digital masters. i don't think this is gonna be a consumer tech per se - at least not for the foreseeable future. 720p is considered good enough for displays under 40inches. resolutions of 7680×4320 would only make sense for giant screens (cinemas, stadiums, etc) V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Some would argue that even 1080 is overkill for current display sizes. But believe you me, once you see UHDV, you'll cry even even with 1080. And I dont think its too far away. Trust manufacturers to shove the tech down our throats as soon as they can build the equipment cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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