HD Vs Blu Ray, The winner is
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The simple facts are, Blu Ray has out marketed HD and Blu Ray is going to come out of the war, the winner. Blu Ray will stand atop the podium along with VHS, and DVD. Although Beta was a better product than VHS, Beta did not win, although Divx was better than DVD it did not win, and although HD is better, it will not win.
HD was a better price, offered more options, and was better distributed, so, it looks like Blu Ray, in the near future, will be the dominate high end player.
Toshiba is stopping all production of HD players, setting the company back millions of dollars, no word on if they will buy, from Sony, the ability to manufacture the Blu Ray player.
Once Sony got to Warner Brothers, the tides of the war changed. I believe that Sony made on offer that Warner’s couldn’t refuse. Well its another sad loss for the better products of the world. It seems (read into this all you like) in our society, that it’s the product with most money that wins, not the better the product.
Blu Ray has been courting everyone from NetFlix to Wal Mart, now all they need to do is get more titles on Blu Ray and make the player more affordable. I’m not sure how this all works, but now that there is NO competition for the Blu Ray format, does that mean the price will remain the same, or start to drop. It seems that the price will remain the same, but that can’t be right; can it? Let me know if you know.
The bright side is, we don’t have to be bothered with making a decision, (yes that is sarcasm).
OK my peeps, happy Blu Raying.
Doug-
Man that is crap. I have a 360 and an HD player, now what. This does not make any since to me. Blu Ray is like $500, that too much to watch a video. Stupid Blu Ray.
In a year they will have DVD players which will play both HD and Blu Ray so it won’t matter who wins.
I don’t believe “they” are going to do that, there will be no reason to. No DVD’s will be in HD formate, they will go the way of the Dodo.
Doug, what do you base the statement that HD is better than Blu-ray. Blu-ray is HD the only difference that I know of is that HD DVD was owned by Toshiba and Blu-Ray is sony. The difference is the formatting which I haven’t read anything indicating the picture quality is worse.
You are correct, they both are High Def. The comment is based on the fact that HD holds more information per disc. Thus allowing for more digital information to be stored.
That’s not true. Blu-ray allows for more data to be stored at least the articles I read all indicate that is the case.
That’s what I meant, Blu Ray holds like 100GB more. Yeah Blu-ray. Thank you for you Blu comments. DD. My frustration is based primarily on cost and title issues. Now that we have a primary player, that should change.
I see Jimmy J there, wanted to jump into the action, sweet. I agree with him, and you are correct Blu-ray holds more data, I don’t know if it’s 100gb but that sounds right to me. My main gripe is that HD just had so many more titles and they were a much better price, for players and titles alike.
I hear that but since more companies are jumping on board more titles will be available. I’m not an expert on the technology here but patents do not last that long therefore, other companies will likely be producing blu-ray players in the future creating competition and driving down prices… may take some time. so for the time being it is a pain in the arse.
Driving down prices will be sweet because first I have to shell out a few grand to get a 1080p TV that will “enlighten” me to this supposedly awesome resolution. Without 1080p resolution on your TV..is it even worth it? Can you tell the difference between say 1080i or 720p? Should we be talking about these DVD’s before talking about TV’s? Which came first? uggh…this is why technology is nothing but a money pit.
Hey B-
They way I look at it is the guys that “need” to have the newest and best as soon as it comes out are foolish. Patience is a virtue. 1080, 720…I promise they both are better than what I’m watching currently. Me I would get the TV, once the broadcast signal becomes only HD the TV will be nice. And with the DVR, and other cable rentals you may never need a player, depends on your movie watching prowess.
I wouldn’t call it foolish, I’d just call it “extravagant”
Honestly, people who like to have the new tech as soon as it hits the shelves usually know they can save money by waiting, but they don’t care because they’d rather check it out right away. There’s nothing wrong with it. Though I will admit I’m personally a saver/waiter when it comes to new technology, too. 