Comments on: Hollywood Embraces Blu-ray…and Format Obsolescence, Too?

By: JAR5783

JAR5783 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:49:06 +0000

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Blu-ray’s Dead, Long Live PS3 Downloads « NewTeeVee — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:02:51 +0000

[...] into rejecting the HD-DVD high-definition standard in favor of its own Blu-ray disc standard. As I wrote back then, “broadband connection…will route around the need for any disc format.” I just [...]

By: BluRaySack

BluRaySack — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:44:54 +0000

Blu Ray sucks donkey dick there expensive as shit and there just old films on a new format disk , the dicks !

By: Smarter

Smarter — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:03:25 +0000

Is this Wagner James Au guy on crack? HD-DVD is CLEARLY the better format. This is not even debatable.
The only thing Blu-Ray has is more storage. As a format for watching HD movies (which both have plenty of storage for), HD-DVD is better in every possible way.
Here is one of 50 examples. Run picture in picture through your Blu-Ray player. Oh wait, you can’t.

By: Dimitrios Matsoulis

Dimitrios Matsoulis — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:57:03 +0000

Both Sony and Microsoft are so interested in consoles because they can combine games with discs and downloadable material. They really want to be in everything and whatever works better they will pursue with new versions. Hard discs or other accessories will be added as required in new models as the market tendencies imply. As for Blu-ray itself, I think it will never achieve the title range we currently have with DVDs. So in the meantime DVD upscaling will work fine while downloads will gain momentum.
http://electronrun.wordpress.com/

By: Wagner James Au

Wagner James Au — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:40:13 +0000

Shrug. Googling "amazon ps3" returns this list first, pricing new PS3s between $565.00 and $698.00:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009VXAM0/ref=dp_olp_2

By: Spytap

Spytap — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:20:42 +0000

“No, last Wednesday, when a check on Amazon priced the PS3 at $590.”
Bullshit. There isn’t a PS3 for sale that costs 600 bucks and anyone who did even a modicum of research would know this. They cost 400 or 500 depending on the model so you quite literally exaggerated the price by 50% more. Don’t cry “but I checked online” own up to your fuckup and retain some journalistic credibility.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:03:10 +0000

Funny how the blu ray fanboys talk bad about the writer being a fanboy.

All I see on the posts are a bunch of crybabies....

By: Wagner James Au

Wagner James Au — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:25:16 +0000

“Transformers is an HD-DVD exclusive title. It’s not even available on blu-ray.”

Hmm, I thought the reason for mentioning that movie would have been obvious to Blu-ray ideologues: Its director, Michael Bay, is among the biggest Hollywood advocates for Blu-ray:

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/23/michael-bay-still-pushing-for-blu-ray/

By: Cyberbian

Cyberbian — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:07:07 +0000

Two Words!

Selectively Myopic.

By: Mark Alayev

Mark Alayev — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:20 +0000

... This was the worst article ever. If you consider your self a writer of any sort please use actual facts and while you are at it; don't be a fanboy and try to see things clearly. Administrators please clean up this article and get rid of writer (unless you like him, then you can spend money for him to learn how to write articles :) )

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:39:45 +0000

I think everyone is missing the point. Blu-Ray is a superior format with the backing of most major motion picture companies, but that's not what got VHS to beat the Beta, or the internet to beat your analog pad and pencil lifestyle. No, technological advances don't mean a thing without content. And in the case of high-def, regular def, and even the internet itself the one deciding factor is clear: Porn.

Because of Porn the VHS crushed Beta. VHS was inexpensive to produce, distribute, and record. Beta, however better in terms of quality, did not get the Porn nod, as it were. If it weren't for porn you wouldn;t have had tons of streaming video codecs, plug-ins, add-ons, etc for every media player under the sun. Make no mistake, technology and porn are inextricably tied together.

Right now it looks like BD is winning, but if Porn swings the other way and goes HD-DVD, my money is where the pervs go.

In my opinion BD is the obvious choice. With a single layer giving you tons of space on one disc think of all the TV shows that could have an entire season on one BD as opposed to 2 or 3 HD-DVDs? Viability is key to Hollywood merchandizers. BD has shown that it is as of now the best chance for companies to get in onthe HD market as it becomes the standard of the market. But people may start jumping ship if it gets too expensive and Blu-Ray is unwilling to shell out the $150 million to keep each studio in an exclusivity contract the way HD-DVD did.

Downloads are weak sauce and not a real option unless everyone starts getting 10mb/s downloads from their regular ISP. Otherwise your highdef movies will take a week to download on your cable modem with a shared connection with everyone on your block doing the same thing - waiting. There's something to be said for the physical discs, they aren't dead by any stretch of the imagination. And if you're into the bleeding edge and really want that movie downloaded and taking up valuable gigs of space on your stellar state-of-the bleeding-edge-art machine, go right ahead. Personally I cant afford that many terrabytes of movies. But I do have a DVD case that stores all those movies quite nicely...

word, Geoff

By: Nate A

Nate A — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:26:30 +0000

I have heard much over the last few weeks about how either format will die as streaming media takes over. This is the same argument that some had about the MP3. While many do download digital copies of their music, CD's are still around and selling. You will always have people who prefer to own physical copies of their media. With all that said, there is still a digital divide through the country. Enough so of a divide that you can still find commercials for dial-up internet access. Whether modem or just slow broadband, the entire country or world will not have access to fast enough download speeds for streaming media to out date disks anytime soon.

By: Jeebs Simpson

Jeebs Simpson — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:49:07 +0000

Dear moronic article writer,

"Thanks to Sony’s format bullying, there are now some 30 million-plus next-gen console owners who must somehow be goaded into spending $600 or so on another game console, mainly so Transformers looks a bit better on their HDTV."

--- Transformers is an HD-DVD exclusive title. It's not even available on blu-ray. Just thought I'd point out one of the many MANY errors in your article.

By: Unpleasantly Amused

Unpleasantly Amused — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:35:56 +0000

This is an amusingly terrible article. It's as if it were designed to be attacked. Well the author "is wrong" and if people pointing out examples isn't good enough what is? Aggregating internet rumor about Paramount and Universal is a bad start. The snarky retorts by the author on the comments section lends even less credibility. But besides being wrong, there just doesn't seem to be a coherent argument motivating this random collection of internet copy and past inaccuracies. If Hi-Def optical is a niche dead end market because the PS3 is selling "horribly", what does it matter if Hollywood supports Blu-ray as opposed to HD-DVD? What would the disaster be? If instead the author means to argue that choosing HD-DVD would have been better for Hollywood because of the Xbox add-on and stand-alone players have higher adoption, this would at least be some kind of argument. But at the centerpiece of this article seems to be some sort of view that digital downloads will be more important than any particular format. Again, even if so, there doesn't seem to be any harm to anyone by offering a physical format alternative that is standardized. How does Blu-ray choice by Paramount and Universal (which is only rumor) hurt Hollywood and Blu-ray?

By: meauxsquared

meauxsquared — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:26:27 +0000

When I bought my first Mac in 1986, the gui based OS was light years ahead of the period’s best PC, and the PC losers attacked the Mac in the same way as the xbox fanboys attack PS3 or the indirect attack of “…Blu-Ray sucks so I won’t buy it…”. And much like VHS v Beta video contest, Beta was a superior technological platform as the Blu-Ray players is now. When the fanboys disparage the PS3 or Blu-Ray, it is simply jealousy. They have picked the loser side once again.