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Home audio & video: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick?
- 8/22/07 3:09 PM
Unleash the Potential of Your Blu-Ray
by fanscape360 - 9/12/08 3:42 PM In reply to: SD or HD by maldelusIf you've been thinking about making the switch to Blu-ray (and you should, you really should), there's no better movie than Transformers to make you a believer.
On 1080p, the picture is crystal clear, the colors are vibrant, and the sound is amazing, I swear you can practically feel those freakin' robots.
Check out more at www.transformersmovie.com
Thanks,
Martin TF
Hey Bob.
by jostenmeat - 9/12/08 4:37 PM In reply to: Unleash the Potential of Your Blu-Ray by fanscape360Are you done with that tenderizing mallet yet?
I could really use it right about now.
BLU RAY!
by CathodeRayTube - 8/22/07 6:59 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
25 gigs VS 15 gigs, per side per layer. need i say more? blue ray has more space.
more space= less compression = better audio and video quality,longer playing times or more files if your using it for data storage.
blu ray is also more phisicly durable than HDHVD, HDDVD is phisicly the same as normal DVDs, two thin plastic discs glued together with the aluminum and gold data layers sandwiched in between. the glue can fail and the discs can delaminate and come apart.
blu rays are 1 solid polycarbonate disc with the data pressed into the read side then the aluminum and gold reflective layers plated over that, with a hard coating as the outermost layer to help protect agains scratches and dirt. because BDs are 1 pice of plasic insted of 2 glued together makes them much more rigid.
betamax failed because it sacraficed play time for picture quality. blue ray has both longer play times and better picture and audio quality (due to more space and less compression)
you get what you pay for, dont buy somthing just because its cheap and has a cool name.
Blu Ray has a cooler name
by dangerrr-man - 8/23/07 5:31 PM In reply to: BLU RAY! by CathodeRayTubeAs ridiculous as my logic may seem (and I have a feeling I may get chewed out for this considering how passionate some of you are... nerds) I think Blu Ray may hold the edge, because it has a better and simple name. HDDVD has two too many syllables. "Hey guys, I'm gong to go pick up the new Pirates of the Caribbean HD DVD" vs "Hey guys, I'm going to go pick up the new Pirates of the Caribbean blu-ray". HDDVD just seems like a mouth full to say. I can see blu-ray becoming part of our vernacular. If you look at the past, all the successfull formats had 3 syllables or less (CD, MP3, cassette, record, LP.......). You know, words you can say easily and quickly. ----- just my two cents.
SONY will get billions for every movie
by michaelcvoigt - 8/22/07 7:02 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Blu-Ray means that every movie maker and producer will to share profits with SONY. I don't want this.
I would rather that money go into making good content, not paying for the format it is on !!
I'll continue to pick neither
by rbsjrx - 8/22/07 7:06 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I was on the losing side in the Beta vs. VHS war because I picked technical superiority over capacity. I was on the losing side of the Laserdisc vs. CED war because I picked marketing power over technical superiority. But both of those were back in the infancy of home video and I had to pick something in order to have anything.
With yet another format war, I refuse to pick sides wihout a compelling reason. I'll continue to buy DVD's until the dust settles. I'll also hold off buying a 1080 big screen TV for lack of an acceptable pre-recorded program source.
If there are others like me, and I'm sure there are, this war is hurting the entire home theater industry.
HD or anything that is NOT a SONY-driven "platform"
by imrananwar - 8/22/07 7:16 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It is amazing how Sony NEVER learns a lesson. I detest their choice of shoving their own Memory ******* cards standard into their cameras and cell phones instead of the more popular and cheaper SD-cards. Just like Beta vs. HD. Just like their failed Music Store experiment.
This company makes some great products. e.g. I loved the Sony Ericsson P900, and the P990i I use is not bad, Memory Stick notwithstanding. But, how stupid is SONY even in those. Even Apple, that used to make everything non-PC-standard, made its iPods use standard headphones. Not Sony.
You have to buy ugly, stubby, stupid looking Sony connector headphones OR chargers to work with the P990. Oh, and they are DIFFERENT from the ugly, stubby, stupid looking Sony connector headphones OR chargers that I collected over time for the P900. Doh.
Their UX280-whatever handheld PC laptop is truly beautiful but uses Memory sticks, making it useless for using to transfer pics from an SD-card camera to the Sony handheld. So I never invested a dime in their Memory Sticks to use with these devices.
The Sony Bravia 50" XBR 1080p TV I am watching is a thing of beauty, listening to it on a Sony wireless sound system that is not bad.
So, Sony can make great products, and win loyalty BUT by doing their typical NON-standard, we-are-better-though-it-means-we-will-fail, actions mean I will support any decent standard over Sony's.
Now that iPhones are out, even my Sony phone-using days are coming to an end.
Imran
imran.TV
It's still early, but today it would be HD DVD
by rogerk69 - 8/22/07 7:23 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sony didn't learn back in the days of Beta vs. VHS and who won? Even though they are now making some small concessions in Taiwan, they are still placating Disney by refusing to support adult entertainment, and that will likely spell disaster just like years past.
NONE!
by prelude619 - 8/22/07 7:23 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm going to let the early adopter schmucks and the market decide the winner, then AND ONLY THEN will I shell out money for a player. I refuse to pay for a player that who the hell knows is going to be the winner.
~mario
HD DVD will win, look at history...
by ksolie - 8/22/07 7:27 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Here are the real reasons HD DVD will win.
1. Porn will decide. Weather you watch it or not, love it or hate it. Porn single handedly swung the battle in the Sony Beta Max VHS wars. It maybe sad, but it is true. Its a huge global industry. One of the top reasons' your surfing broadband right now is because of it.
2. Usually proprietary formats don't win because of money, this is why your running Ethernet right now and not Token Ring or some form of Wireless Token Ring. In the early days Token Ring was faster, and to some degree better. But every hub, NIC and switch had a small amount going to IBM. It was just too expensive compared to Ethernet.
Why does Sony do this? Sony Beta Max, Sony Memory Sticks, Song Blue Ray...
Do you like paying top dollar for a 2 gig memory Stick, I can get a two gig SD card for a 1/4 of the price now.
Look at the prices for these players...mmmm I see a trend here.
I disagree.
by navsimpson - 8/22/07 7:55 PM In reply to: HD DVD will win, look at history... by ksolie1. The porn argument has been debunked in a number of places. While VHS and the internet had their uptake rates positively affected by porn, it was because they offered privacy and economy. HD porn does nothing to improve on those, and only a few technophile porn fans will be interested.
2. There isn't anything particularly proprietary about Blu-Ray. Yes it requires new manufacturing facilities, but so did CDs - did that make them a proprietary format?
Blu-Ray
by navsimpson - 8/22/07 7:38 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why? Because the PS3 install base is the closest thing either format will get to achieving critical mass. A protracted and ultimately futile 'format war' a la DVD-A/SACD will benefit no-one, least of all consumers. And unlike those high-resolution audio formats, people will be increasingly aware of the difference between SD and HD as their favourite TV shows switch over to hi-def. I think that the HD-DVD group has their stuff together more - managed copy, interactivity etc. - but a few hundred thousand players versus a few million PS3s seems like a losing battle to me.
HDDVD
by Klicka - 8/22/07 7:41 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Blu-ray is a cool name and all, and I think they are both equal, but my new laptop has an HD-DVD drive, so it won't read bluray.
I DON'T CARE!
by ronsutt - 8/22/07 7:43 PM In reply to: Poll: If you had one choice, which format would you pick? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
At present, I have no interest. I simply don't care.
Neither
by danmeaney - 8/22/07 7:59 PM In reply to: I DON'T CARE! by ronsuttWhat about unifying the two formats into one player? What about skipping a player entirely and using your pc to download hd content and producing more hdmi laden pc's?...think forward...Happauge has good products along these lines...I am into the idea of simplifying, not complicating hardware. Blu-ray is a disc containing digital hd formatted media. Do we really need discs anymore? Just more things that won't decay in a landfill. The iPhone is a step in the right direction. Now let's do it all and wirelessly...Alot of it is already possible.
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