Blu-Ray wins?

[yesthattom]

Warner backed Blu-Ray for the HDTV DVD standard, no longer siding with "both". This is very exciting to me. Blu-Ray has much more storage capactity and high bitrate. It is the better standard from a technology wise. It's sort of like Betamax beating VHS. I was really converned that the lower technology would get the better market acceptance.

Comments

[edhorch.livejournal.com]

I'm actually kind of bummed to hear this. Warner Brothers has always been the most customer-friendly DVD publishers. They were one of the quickest DVD adopters early on, and their DVDs still do nice things like let you go straight to the menu without forcing you to watch commercials. I was hoping they'd stay format-agnostic until a) there was a clear winner, or b) the war went on until it became moot because physical media had been replaced outright by downloadable content.

As for me, I think Blu-Ray is better too, but I'm not going to get a Blu-Ray player unless it has a deeply-discounted PS3 wrapped around it. My standard DVDs look just fine on my 42" LCD, and it'll be a long time before Blu-Rays start showing up in the used bins at FYE.

funny thing...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

we get as much "play" out of our PS3 for BR-DVDs and DVDs as we do actually gaming.

I think pushing the BluRay in the high-end PS3's was a huge win for both the PS3 and the BR standard. It got a bunch of houses-with-gamers [both kids and adults] into the BluRay market that might not have otherwise. [I would have most likely sat out the format wars until they settled out or the existing DVD player died...I'm not an audio/video-phile like many of my frends, and this is one of the few areas where I don't feel any need to be on the technological bleeding edge].

Of course, I wouldn't have the PS3 if I hadn't won it from my firm's employee referral program award drawing...but I think there's a general case for what I'm saying in the buying-consumer market.

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

No HD porn for you, then! (Since the porn studios can't go Blu-Ray, thanks to Sony not wanting them there, they went HD-DVD... so who knows--HD could still win eventually :shrug:)

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Blu-Ray is (a) region-coded, (b) an unfinished (an constantly changing) spec, and (c) Sony. Unless you consider bitrate to be the be-all and end-all of the discussion, this is a win for nobody but Sony.

Luckily, the market has already spoken resoundingly: Piracy, the Better Choice™.

[mycroft.livejournal.com]

In most technical aspects, there actually isn't so much difference. They use roughly equivalent error correction schemes (different, but with very similar recovery rates), and generally the same format video and audio.

The place where Blu-Ray really loses is that the recorded surface is *much* more fragile.

Besides, HD-DVD has been hacked at this point. That's a definite win for the consumer.

[digamma.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem impossible to me that in three years the very concept of distributing movies on physical media will be a dead technology thanks to on-demand video, and that this will look like a debate over which kind of kerosene lamp is best.