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02-28-2007, 06:27 PM
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Time To Buy a Blu-ray
The Blu-ray vs HD-DVD battle is over!!!
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Blu-ray to sting HD-DVD
AMERICA'S porn kings may decide who wins the biggest format stoush as the battle for the next-generation to replace DVDs heats up.
And this is the biggest battle since the Betamax VCR took on its rival VHS in the 1980s.
In January, anyone looking for a winner of the war between the two next-generation discs designed to replace DVD would have picked Blu-ray over the opposing HD-DVD format by a country mile.
The bet looked well-placed: the first two Blu-ray players, Samsung's BD-P1000 and Panasonic's BD10, along with a handful of GB BD movies, were in Australian stores in December.
HD-DVD movies were scarce and a player nowhere in sight.
Software support for Blu-ray is hefty. Every big Hollywood studio except Universal backs Blu-ray, and only a handful of labels are opting to press movies in both formats.
Blu-ray can also count on the hardware support of the world's highest-profile consumer electronics companies including Sony, Panasonic, Apple Computers, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Dell, LG and Hitachi.
The HD-DVD camp includes Toshiba, Microsoft, GE, Kenwood, Canon, Onkyo, Teac, NEC and Mitsubishi.
But the clincher for Blu-ray is Sony's Blu-ray-equipped PS3.
The high-resolution gaming console is due out on March 23 and will be snapped up.
No wonder that last month it looked like a 3-0 to Blu-ray.
But just when it looked like being all over for HD-DVD two things happened.
Both prove why a month is a long time in the ever-shifting and often murky politics of consumer electronics.
The arrival of the HD-E1 -- Toshiba's first HD-DVD player -- in Australia -- in the middle of last month was the first.
The second occurred a week earlier at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, an event at which the adult industry holds a concurrent exhibition.
The whisper coming from LA got louder as the show went on.
Word was the $72 billion-a-year worldwide porn industry would use HD-DVD to maintain its 10 per cent share of an annual market of standard DVDs worth an estimated $30.3 billion.
The official reason was HD-DVD's lower cost of production.
Unofficially, it is Sony's longstanding and praiseworthy policy of disallowing its media to handle pornography.
The upshot is a Lazarus-like revival of HD-DVD.
But the smart money is still on Blu-ray. The format has the software and hardware firepower to see off HD-DVD, notwithstanding the latter's support from the adult industry.
In the long run, HD-DVD will survive only if the opposing camps agree to build dual-format machines.
It's a rerun of the recordable-DVD debacle all over again, when opposing groups publicly refused to build dual-format recorders.
The confused public bought neither.
In the end everyone caved in and nearly all DVD recorders read the -R and +R recorder formats.
Until the format issue is resolved, Toshiba is pressing on with HD-DVD and has finally released its first Australian high-definition player, the $1099 HD-E1.
The HD-E1 was meant to arrive before December, but after a frustrating number of false starts Australia's first HD-DVD player has finally arrived.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...-11869,00.html
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02-28-2007, 07:23 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
I bought one of those blue ray things once! Ice Age 2, and now we can't watch it!
Anyone want a movie?
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02-28-2007, 08:02 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
I support the pron industry. Therefore I give Blue-Ray a thumbs down.
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02-28-2007, 09:47 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
Once I found out Sony was going with Blu-Ray, I knew the HD format was toast.
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02-28-2007, 09:58 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
I want my Atari back
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02-28-2007, 10:04 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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I want my Atari back
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Guess what I got for Christmas?
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02-28-2007, 10:27 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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Guess what I got for Christmas?
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A blumpkin?
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02-28-2007, 10:51 PM
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Guess what I got for Christmas?
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Really?! Do you have Frogger?
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02-28-2007, 10:52 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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A blumpkin?
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ewww!
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02-28-2007, 11:08 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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Once I found out Sony was going with Blu-Ray, I knew the HD format was toast.
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ORRERY??????
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Once I found out Sony was going with Betamax, I knew the VHS format was toast.
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02-28-2007, 11:14 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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02-28-2007, 11:17 PM
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$1200!!! Fahgetaboutit.
Bite me, Dennis.
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02-28-2007, 11:44 PM
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$1200!!! Fahgetaboutit.
Bite me, Dennis.
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Don't be angry with me, feel bad for me.
We were the family that had 2 Betamax recorders and hundreds of betamax tapes before it's demise.
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03-01-2007, 12:40 AM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
I read in one of our video store rags that the ratio of Blu-Ray players vs. HD-DVD players was over 3-1 largely due to the PS3 rollout, but the software sales were closer to 1-1. Therefore HD-DVD owners are buying WAY more software than Blu-Ray owners, and that's all the studios care about, SELLING DVD's.
I think HD-DVD will be the CHAMP, afterall, they have Microsoft, and WHO doesn't have Mocrosoft OS on their computer??
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03-01-2007, 01:31 AM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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Once I found out Sony was going with Blu-Ray, I knew the HD format was toast.
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Didn't Sony put out the betamax....
That being said i just happened to recently pick up a PS3 real cheap from some guy in CO so...
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03-01-2007, 05:54 AM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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Don't be angry with me, feel bad for me.
We were the family that had 2 Betamax recorders and hundreds of betamax tapes before it's demise.
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It's okay, Trent still cries for his 8 track.
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03-01-2007, 05:59 AM
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It's okay, Trent still cries for his 8 track.
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Ahhhh... back in the days when an artist had to put out an album in which every song was good and not just one.
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03-01-2007, 07:58 AM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
I guess I would need to own an HDTV first....
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02-19-2008, 04:26 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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02-19-2008, 04:53 PM
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Re: Time To Buy a Blu-ray
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I want my Atari back
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I also had an 800XL
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