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Comments on news posted 2006-11-16 17:12:35: Slate pens a piece that says the format war between HD-DVD and BluRay is irrelevant, largely because broadband video will ultimately kill the disc format. Obviously there's dozens of companies getting into the broadband video delivery business. ..
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  NyQuil Kid8f The Nyquil Kid
join:2001-01-06
Brick, NJ | Uses other than entertainment I personally would love to back up my hard drives to Blue-Ray and/or HD-DVD; as hard drives increase in size, being able to archive such data/backups would be useful.
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|  MadnessLike a flea circus at a dog show
join:2000-01-05
Quincy, MA
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| My 2¢ This whole thing is fine n' dandy. But my main concern is not which DVD format will prevail, it's the prospect of having to, once-again, replace my movie collection. I, like some others, DO prefer to have a holdable media for my music & movies.
An example of this happened after the present DVD format came out. Within a few years of that, I came across people who were dumping entire Laserdisc collections for pennies-on-the-dollar! Why? Because they just HAD to go out and repurchase their library on those "new-fangled" DVDs. My local Goodwill is drowning in prerecorded VHS tapes that they can barely give away for 2 bucks each.
To me, I think they present DVD format is acceptable and refuse to buy into any of the HD-BS until I have no choice (especially w/ the FCC constantly pushing back the "analog-goes-dead" date!). Again, I'm not looking forward to eventually having to face the fact that my present DVD collection is quickly heading towards obsolescence. | |
| | | | Re: My 2¢ I don't know why everyone thinks there needs to be some great upgrade in hardware for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to be DOA. There only needs to be a start with DVD quality downloads initially, with natural jumps in content. Hard drive storage and disc combining tech continues to grow each day. As has been said, its not even that big of a deal to download a 4 gig movie now. | |
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 thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY | Boo. :( None of these online solutions are going to be of decent quality. And they'll all be DRMed.
I was looking forward to the concept of blu-ray and HD DVD, mainly for TV shows. It's annoying to have to pry through the internet for true HD copies of shows, it would be so much easier(and better quality) to buy the seasons.
Right now even if you pay for it you get lower quality than you can get online for a TV show, that's awful how behind they are with technology.
If I buy it, I don't have to get DRM, I have the original, and I don't have to deal with the quality loss they'll provide.
This is kind of like SACD/DVD-A/DSD discs. Instead of moving forward in quality(like tape --> CD in the 80s, when tape recording became popular), they're moving backwards to copy protected 128k WMA/AAC. Move forward - make the consumer feel like they're getting more when they buy it in the store opposed to getting it online. Right now, if I grab a movie in HDTV off of usenet, it looks better than what I can buy in the store for $15, and that's pathetic.
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|  Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN | Good point Going from vhs to DVD was a lot like horses to cars.
At this point, High Definition discs are being pushed as if they are going to replace dvd's. I don't think BMW's are replacing average cars any time soon. | |
| | | HVD ftw ;) There are players that can play both so whichever medium is cheaper and has the least restrictions will win.
With holographic and larger solid state solutions on the horizon I think I will wait.
DVD = 9 GB
BR-DVD = 50 GB
HVD ~ 300 GB | |
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