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Post by wannabeactuary on Sept 19, 2006 21:22:20 GMT -5
nice...
for the record both blu-ray players and hd dvd players are backwards compatible with standard dvd and dvd media (i.e. dvd +/- r and dvd +/- rw) according to specs I saw on best buy's site
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Post by Dragavan on Sept 19, 2006 22:50:45 GMT -5
What I find most annoying about the future of this is that you will be hard pressed to find a dual format player. Most DVD Player manufacturers had planned on putting them out, and some even talked about them in early advertising about the future of their lines, but all have been pulled from the rosters. So you will have to choose one or the other, unless you want to buy two players.
You can blame Sony for this one. They are pulling strings and most likely making threats to make sure none of the companies that deals with them to use their formats and licenses (which is pretty much all of them) will make dual format players. This means if some company breaks this and makes once they won't be making any Sony related products for long.
I am sure once things get settled and move forward (and the writing is on the wall for one of the formats) you will see a dual format player, but it then it's too late to make a difference or be of much use. By then the losing format will be well on its way to being the next Beta Tape or 8-Track and the players for them will only be for the technophiles and hard core fans.
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Post by Shinra on Sept 22, 2006 7:05:05 GMT -5
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Post by dharmachili on Sept 22, 2006 20:02:04 GMT -5
What I find most annoying about the future of this is that you will be hard pressed to find a dual format player. Most DVD Player manufacturers had planned on putting them out, and some even talked about them in early advertising about the future of their lines, but all have been pulled from the rosters. So you will have to choose one or the other, unless you want to buy two players. You can blame Sony for this one. They are pulling strings and most likely making threats to make sure none of the companies that deals with them to use their formats and licenses (which is pretty much all of them) will make dual format players. This means if some company breaks this and makes once they won't be making any Sony related products for long. I am sure once things get settled and move forward (and the writing is on the wall for one of the formats) you will see a dual format player, but it then it's too late to make a difference or be of much use. By then the losing format will be well on its way to being the next Beta Tape or 8-Track and the players for them will only be for the technophiles and hard core fans. If you are talking about a dual-format player for a DVD and a Blu-Ray Disc, then that will definatley not happen because Blu-Rays use blue rays to read and write (obviously the origin of their name) and DVDs use another color, I'm not sure what, but since there must be two completely different lasers to read the disc, is might be possible, but not very likely because they would have to squeeze two whole sets of lasers beneath the disk inside one player. |
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Post by Dragavan on Sept 22, 2006 22:00:55 GMT -5
I was talking about HD-DVD and Blue Ray dual players. Not burners or computer drives, but players for use with your TV. It would not be hard to make them (as they already had them in prototype form and in the pre-release advertisements), but they had to pull them off the rosters all of a sudden (which I would bet was Sony politics and not production issues). And since the PS3 is going to be backward compatible with PS2 games, that means it too is going to be able to read standard DVD and CD disks as well, so dual format player are very possible to make.
The rest of what I said doesn't need to be reiterated here, but I hope that clarifies what I was talking about.
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Post by mbison on Sept 25, 2006 4:02:55 GMT -5
Hmmm... let's see. What would it cost me to upgrade to Blue-Ray or HD-DVD?
BlueRay:
$600 PS3 (cheapest blue ray player) + ~$800 HDTV = $1400
HD-DVD:
$440 Xbox360 with HD-DVD add-on (cheapest HD-DVD player) + ~$800 = $1240
DVD:
$0
Either of the HD standards are completely out of my (and yes, most people's) reach. If I had an extra $1200+ dollars it would not be used to upgrade my entertainment center. I have bills as does every other working person on this planet. So it's DVD FTW.
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