[ale] OT: Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD

Sid Lane jakes.dad at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 11:11:08 EDT 2007


you know, I'm something of an AV/HT buff (have 2 DLPs & a few $K worth of
audio eq) but I have totally stayed on the sidelines for this.  not so much
for fear of picking the wrong horse, just shear/utter disgust w/the studios
(DRM, writing/buying laws, re-buying titles AGAIN, etc.)...  I'm going to
hold out as long as I can (will-power wise) but I'm afraid if I ever hear a
title w/a good audio track delivered lossless to a good system I'm going to
totally cave (I'm probably more of an audio buff than video).  a coworker
(w/HD-DVD) has about convinced me that I can almost rationalize it w/Netflix
vs. buying but I'm still holding out for now.

FWIW, I don't see how HD-DVD could possibly not win - the manufacturing
costs are way less & the process is far more flexible.  the only prayer I
see blueray having is if HD-DVD's DRM is totally broken & blueray's survives
in which case the studios won't care about the mfg cost & will just pass it
along.  if they are able to stop the bleeding of HD's DRM then greed will
inevitably lead them to the (significantly) cheaper medium.

just my 2c/never 2bHO...

On 6/18/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
>
> I see that Blockbuster has jumped on the Blu-Ray Bandwagon (see:
> http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,283774,00.html)
>
> According to that article...  "All major studios except one are
> releasing films in Blu-ray, with several, including The Walt Disney Co.,
> releasing exclusively in Blu-ray. Only Universal Studios, which is owned
> by General Electric Co., exclusively supports HD DVD."
>
>
> So... how does everyone think this is going to end up?  (those of you
> who still own Betamax players are requested not to provide input :-) )
>
>
> -Jim P.
>
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