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In Reply to: I'll probably order the Blu-Ray version. posted by oscar on May 5, 2007 at 05:12:27:
You know, about 18 months ago I was so sure Blu-Ray was already the winner, what with the much broader industry support and Sony's hot Playstation 3 poised to be the trojan horse that got Blu-Ray into millions of homes disguised as a hot game console.But I've since come to the conclusion that:
-PS/3 seems to be selling more slowly than expected due to price and a dearth of must-have exclusive games
-The spike in Blu-Ray movie sales was probably due to promotions (free movies with PS/3) and PS/3 owners trying to find some use for their $600 brick, but this won't necessarily translate into ongoing movie sales.
-The situation with movie studio support can change fast if they sense they're pouring money down a bottomless pit: Universal Media Disk (UMD) also started off with major movie studio backing, but this evaporated pretty quickly
-I already wanted a DVD player that could scale standard DVD video to 1080p, and $400 doesn't sound like an unreasonable price for that, plus the HD capabilities.
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Again, HD-DVD is currently cheaper, but the higher storage capacity with Blu-Ray could make Blu-Ray a keeper.There's a whiff of a hope that Blu-Ray offers a more robust (?) DRM scheme than HD-DVD and probably explains why Blu-Ray has most of the studio support currently. OTOH, I'm skeptical any DRM scheme is going to survive the hackers.
I vaguely recall reading the lack of "cheap" blu-ray players is the lack of cheap Blu-Ray ROM drives. This is alleged to be about to change this summer.
My 9-5 job involves IT matters, and I've thought of BD-R as a possible backup medium, but at the moment, it's not looking super compelling because I don't really know how archival it will be, and hard disk storage is super cheap.Both Blu-Ray and HD DVD use AACS encryption, and at the rate things are going, that will be fully and irrevocably cracked pretty soon, and that's fine with me, because I want to be able to watch those movies on my existing computer and elsewhere.
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