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Hows your blu ray collection lookin?

VegasOnAcid said:
Correct me if I am wrong, as I did not follow the battle so closely; But I was under impression Blu-ray was in almost no way technically superior to HD-DVD. It simply won out due to corporate and porn backing blu-ray over HD-DVD.

And since blu-ray is still relatively expensive, what would stop those big corporations and porn from ditching it for a cheaper form of tech in a few years?

Is blu-ray even catching on in a major way? Especially with streaming/on demand video being widespread now. I mean, ya blu-ray its really nice, but it just seems that it is not making the strides necessary to stick around as the norm.
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here's your correction =)

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Interestingly enough, (and ironically I might add), Apple, Adobe, and Netflix all backed bluray, with Apple on the the board of directors, while microsoft backed the losing HD-DVD.

But even though I won't buy blu-ray for movies, if the capacity keeps climbing I may just invest in a high speed bluray burner for my non-volatile backups =)
 
Btros said:
Nah, you got that from Tropic Thunder. :D Well, that might be partly true but it was still a funny part. Anyway, Blu-ray disc capacity is 50GB where HD-DVD was 25GB. While being almost identical in video quality, only Blu-ray could contain the master audio tracks like DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD direct from the studio. So although they may have help from certain companies like Sony making more deals than Microsoft to promote the format, the technically superior format still won.

This is also why blu-ray is better than streaming or on-demand because those formats can't compete with the audio and probably can't compete with the picture quality at this point either. Whether or not that's worth it for the average consumer is debatable - I prefer blu-ray when possible but still watch DVD or download certain movies. Look at the rise of sh*tty mp3s over hi-def formats like CDs, Super Audio CDs, and Blu-ray Audio. When given the choice the average consumer will choose low cost and low quality over higher cost and higher quality. So Blu-ray may go the way of the niche market unfortunately.

It's really not THAT expensive anymore when you look at it either. Blu-ray players can be found for under $100 and I think I've only bought one or two discs over $20. I usually get them around $10-$15. That's comparable or cheaper to DVDs in the same timeframe when it was a new format.
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IOWA said:
here's your correction =)

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Interestingly enough, (and ironically I might add), Apple, Adobe, and Netflix all backed bluray, with Apple on the the board of directors, while microsoft backed the losing HD-DVD.

But even though I won't buy blu-ray for movies, if the capacity keeps climbing I may just invest in a high speed bluray burner for my non-volatile backups =)
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Ahh so it is actually pretty good once the tech advances more. I am still pretty hesitant tho.
I have a bluray burner.. never use it. The damn discs are like 30 bucks each i think.. Might as well get a external HD IMO.
 
I only buy them on the super cheap. On Black Friday I got about 30 titles. I was actually shocked how many movies they had for cheap that I actually wanted. And they were $5-10 a pop. I had to hop around 3 stores to get them, but I was able to snag everything I wanted. I more than doubled my previous collection! I am at a point that i will only buy a movie if it is on super sale. I will rarely spend more than $10 on a movie (Best Buy pretty frequently has decent sales on newer flicks). That's about the price if I got it in DVD (in some cases I saw the bluray going for less during a sale), so I see no point in growing the DVD selection anymore.

The NEW thing is 3D BluRays, which I just think is the most ridiculous gimmick ever. I have had a chance to actually watch a 3D bluray and I was unimpressed, although I mostly felt the same about 3D movies in the theaters. Gaming MIGHT be fun, but I will pass on having to throw on some goofy glasses every time I want to watch a movie. If it came packaged with a standard high-def version I MIGHT let it slide, but intil then I am completely uninterested.
 
VegasOnAcid said:
Correct me if I am wrong, as I did not follow the battle so closely; But I was under impression Blu-ray was in almost no way technically superior to HD-DVD. It simply won out due to corporate and porn backing blu-ray over HD-DVD.

And since blu-ray is still relatively expensive, what would stop those big corporations and porn from ditching it for a cheaper form of tech in a few years?

Is blu-ray even catching on in a major way? Especially with streaming/on demand video being widespread now. I mean, ya blu-ray its really nice, but it just seems that it is not making the strides necessary to stick around as the norm.
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As IOWA said, technical specs are better. The quality of video and audio was the same, however.
 
lordofthereef said:
As IOWA said, technical specs are better. The quality of video and audio was the same, however.
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Actually if you read my post, HD-DVD is only 15GB (single layer) or 30GB (dual layer) whereas blu-ray is 50GB - so the audio quality is vastly superior on blu-ray. You will not find a master lossless audio track on HD-DVD.
 
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