Community weekly poll: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars?
- 3/7/06 3:37 PM
Rootkits came first... READ my MAIN post: "DRM"
by btljooz - 3/8/06 1:37 PM In reply to: Sony's DRM Focus by PubliumYou'll find out all sorts of things;)
Neither will catch on for years, so Blu-Ray
by tony7896 - 3/7/06 9:15 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
I have a great hi-def TV and I can see that hi-def broadcasts look better than my DVDs, but I'm not going to upgrade to blue laser discs until the content is widely available and close to as cheap as DVDs and the players are cheap also. That's going to take years (>5?), and by then I think that the blu-ray's technology advantage will count more than HD-DVDs faster time-to-market and lower cost.
Tony
Sony will not allow itself to lose this one.
by polarengineer - 3/7/06 9:54 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
After the Betamax failure, Sony has a lot at stake. This time Sony owns so many media rights, they can easily ensure distribution of their media on their own format and rule the roost. This is a powerful argument for a, sadly, complicated and expensive (to the consumer) system. Now we need some clever people to come up with the universal reader-writer-HD-blue- wave-ray-DVD. Better still, would be something solid state like a 40GB SD card. It will happen, so I advise all to save your money for the near future developments.
Next generation DVD
by glengary - 3/7/06 10:26 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
My choice will depend on
(a) compatibility with current DVD (i.e., Will you be able to play your current DVD's on the machine?
(b) If no whether I will be able to effectively transfer my inventory to the new format.
Makes no sense to jeopardize the current investment in videos if it can be avoided.
HD dvd
by goodguy222 - 3/7/06 10:31 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
I have read that the HD dvd will NOT have componant output so My tv will not work with any of them, so I have decided to just NEVER buy in to any of them...........let the greedy SOBs keep their new HD DVD.
sony - betamax intellevision vs atari
by rdboyer1 - 3/7/06 10:35 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
Remembering the above two wars dates me: but if the past is future, I would bet on HDTV With VCRs and early video games the superior but more costly technology lost out to the less costly and poorer one because mass drives the market. Program suppliers went for numbers of customers. I'd bet that will happen again. Henry Ford was pretty smart
Dave Boyer
Blu ray!!
by Synthesis - 3/7/06 10:36 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
You can fit more data into the same physical format.
Check out this link for instance!!
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I love technology and we should all do more for the companies who want to bring this next gen of data storage to our tables and work benches!!
If you cant see the benefit, you are as old as the AT style towers!!
Jump on, it's going to get good!!
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Wait it out - it's beta vs. vhs all over again!!
by jlchaney - 3/7/06 10:40 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
In the tape wars, beta lost out, even though the video was visually superior. Reason - consumers wanted to be able to record a full length movie (2 hrs) in HQ, but could not. VHS won out.
At that time, those machines were expensive! Chose wrong and you were out some real cash. Same thing here. These machines are not your standard $40 dvd unit.
I suspect the public will decide once again by their ability to record (depends on what the manufactuers will cut loose with, along with quality. The customer will sacrifice a little on each side, but in the end, whoever puts the best package of quality and recording along with driving down the disc costs will win. Wait . . . and that might mean a couple of years.
Both will fail!
by HiDefBob - 3/7/06 10:50 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
I think the industry has totally blown the move to HDTV DVD. What with the format war and the issue of not being able to use either with older HDTV's (with only component inputs). Early adopters are getting screwed! Greed and egos got in the way of a potential gold mine for the industry!
HD DVD for me
by minzawaung - 3/7/06 11:27 PM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
1.Sony will lost the war again ,similar to obsolete betamax,minidisc,Sony mavicas, Sony clie PDAs,Sony UMD and Sony memory stick to SD card.
2.Sony will produce HD DVD machines in 5 years time
3.In life better technology not always win ,it is the mass volume market,affordability and universal compatibility are the keys.
4.That reflected in Sony Lost ALL the wars including this one
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It all Depends......
by tielknight - 3/8/06 12:23 AM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
The success of the Blu-Ray will mostly depend on whether Sony's Playstation 3 will be as great of a successor to it's predecessors. If the PS3 is successfull, the Blu-Ray will share the profits by "Hitch-Hiking" along with the PS3 to make it's way up the ladder. In the end, this all comes down to the public's acception of the PS3. I am also sceptical about the prce of the players, hearing that they are close to $1,000. If this is right, I don't have a clue why anybody will pay that much for an extra 10 GB of disc space. Now if the Blu-Ray discs were industructible, then that would be a different story.
DVD Wars
by maimee_jingjing - 3/8/06 1:02 AM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
I too went through the confusing times of VHS v BetaMax. What made it worse was that the the inferior product won. BetaMax tapes had a smaller format and the quality of play-back was better. We have suffered decades of poor quality recorded films because of that war I can only hope they get it right this time.
Blue-Ray
by Dave White - 3/8/06 1:39 AM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
Most recording programs are already putting out updates for the blue-ray technology. Thus that tells me that even though it might cost more, you will better satisfied with its direct results when it comes to recording movies and music.
HD DVD vs BLU-RAY
by TomahawkZA - 3/8/06 2:20 AM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
The way I see it this move is firmly rooted in the anti-piracy drive and digital rights management with little to offer the consumer in the short term.
Sony has recently burn't its fingers around DRM issues and it seems the new format will be entrenching this type of evil with lots of spare space for DRM software utilities and elaborate protection schemes. And you can be sure the recording speeds will be throttled severely to discourage copying and "back-ups".
DVD movie rental shops will likely be slow to adopt the new formats as all their clients own DVD players and at introduction price premiums the dual layer DVD will surely be around for the foreseeable future.
For the home consumer it will only be viable for data back-up when the media price for blank discs of the new format work out at less per GB of data to be stored.
Strangely enough, the 3.5 inch floppy diskettes are still selling well ... strange when you consider one CDR or RW holds about 500 times the data at a quarter of the cost of a single 1.44 and a DVD+-R or RW holds over 2000 times the data at less than half the cost of a blank 1.44
Go figure ... there just is no logic at the end of the day.
HD will be the Standard, for the simplest reasons.
by forgot 2 duck - 3/8/06 3:48 AM In reply to: What's your take on the next-generation DVD format wars? by Marc Bennett
First and foremost importantly I beleive HDDVD will be the standard as everyone has the new TV standard as HDTV so naturally people will think HDDVD players will be the perfect companion for their TV's.
Thanks to Sony's PS2 DVD integrated smoothly into peoples homes. But i have to admit the DVD drive on the PS2 is probably the worst quality on I've every seen!(Xbox version was far superior).
Secondly i doubt having a BlueRay drive in the PS3 will be enough to force BlueRay to be the standard.
I doubt that Sony will even ship the first models of the PS3 with BlueRay drives due to the fact that they will cost Sony approx $300 per drive!
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