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IronBuckI
Calmer than you are.
I'm glad that the superior format won, but the only way I buy a blu-ray player is via a PS3. I'm not sure how fast the move to downloadable HD media is going to be either. Many internet companies are already throttling back heavy users of bittorrent. At approx. 8GB for a High Def movie, that's a lot of bandwidth and a shitload of hardrive space.
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exhawg
Mirror Guy
I'm sure the next technology will be out before I stop using regular dvd's. Now I can burn standard dvd's on my computer and I can get media for 20 cents a disk. Blu-Ray movies cost $30 each and the players are at least $300 with no easy way to burn them. Someone would have to have a shitload of disposable income to afford this crap. I'll pay my $15 a month to have an virtually unlimited supply of movies from Blockbuster or Netflix.
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Taosman
Your Cousin In New Mexxico
Ready to buy Blu-ray? Better hit pause button
Price expected to remain high for now, and you'll need to upgrade, too
By Suzanne Choney
MSNBC
updated 9:02 p.m. MT, Wed., Feb. 20, 2008
The high-definition DVD format war may be over, but not the battle for eyeballs and dollars when it comes to viewing high-def movies.
With Toshiba?s announcement Tuesday that it?s abandoning the HD DVD format it helped create, leaving Sony?s Blu-ray the winner, consumers may feel they have no choice but to buy a Blu-ray player in order to enjoy movies in HD.
There are good reasons to wait. Among them are the cost of the players, which range between $400 and $500 and are expected to remain at that level in the months ahead, said Rob Enderle, president of The Enderle Group research firm.
Even at $400, that?s about twice the price most consumers are comfortable with ? the ?I-don?t-have-to-ask-my-wife?s-permission? number of around $200, said Enderle.
?Probably closer to the end of year, the holiday season, we?ll see some pricing come down,? said Steve Baker, vice president of industry analysis for The NPD Group. ?Right now, there?s not a lot of incentive to drive pricing down.?
You'll want to upgrade
But cost isn?t the only factor. If you bought a Blu-ray player last year, chances are you could wind up buying another one next year as well. That?s because most stand-alone Blu-ray players are essentially version 1.0 and not upgradeable.
Ready to buy Blu-ray? Better hit pause button - Gadgets - MSNBC.com
Price expected to remain high for now, and you'll need to upgrade, too
By Suzanne Choney
MSNBC
updated 9:02 p.m. MT, Wed., Feb. 20, 2008
The high-definition DVD format war may be over, but not the battle for eyeballs and dollars when it comes to viewing high-def movies.
With Toshiba?s announcement Tuesday that it?s abandoning the HD DVD format it helped create, leaving Sony?s Blu-ray the winner, consumers may feel they have no choice but to buy a Blu-ray player in order to enjoy movies in HD.
There are good reasons to wait. Among them are the cost of the players, which range between $400 and $500 and are expected to remain at that level in the months ahead, said Rob Enderle, president of The Enderle Group research firm.
Even at $400, that?s about twice the price most consumers are comfortable with ? the ?I-don?t-have-to-ask-my-wife?s-permission? number of around $200, said Enderle.
?Probably closer to the end of year, the holiday season, we?ll see some pricing come down,? said Steve Baker, vice president of industry analysis for The NPD Group. ?Right now, there?s not a lot of incentive to drive pricing down.?
You'll want to upgrade
But cost isn?t the only factor. If you bought a Blu-ray player last year, chances are you could wind up buying another one next year as well. That?s because most stand-alone Blu-ray players are essentially version 1.0 and not upgradeable.
Ready to buy Blu-ray? Better hit pause button - Gadgets - MSNBC.com
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Got a Sony BDP-S360 Bluray player for Christmas...it's Sony's most basic model but it does the trick. I had bought the Bluray version of the Star Trek movie collection, and when watching The Undiscovered Country (the first of the six movies I watched), I had to sit through the several-minute ad for other Star Trek stuff, including season one of the original TV show. I have to say I was really impressed with what they've done in cleaning up the picture quality of the original episodes...it's amazing how good the film they used for TV shows was back then considering the horrid quality of video broadcasting at the time. I'm hoping that studios do Bluray re-issues of some of the '60s show collections I currently have (Hogan's Heroes, Combat!, Rat Patrol, Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, etc.)...I'd love to see them issue Jonny Quest on Bluray.
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And there is still room for future growth with many successive generations of TV/PC monitor resolutions. The negative of a single frame of 35mm film contains more information than an equivilent digital capture at over 175MP.MililaniBuckeye;1625872; said:
So long as the original cans of film are safe somewhere (salt vaults in Nevada, probably) so that the studios can go back and re-digitize with each generation of TVs, movies filmed as far back as the 1920s will continue to look as good as modern films side-by-side in our living rooms.
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scooter1369
HTTR Forever.
Dryden;1625944; said:
Can someone go back and make a HD copy of the 10 year war?
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