Man, I am so not a technophile. All of this high definition DVD talk just puts me to sleep. On the other hand, I have to stay somewhat aware of new developments so I'm not found crying in my apartment several years from now trying to play a Blu-Ray disc on my standard DVD player.
Right now Blu-Ray and HD DVD are in a race to see which high definition format comes out the victor. Some studios have been releasing content on both forms, while others have stuck to only one or the other. Recently, Warner Bros. said it would introduce the Total HD Disc. This new disc will hold both the HD DVD and Blu-Ray format.
Is it possible that in our desire to forge ahead into the future we'll become so sick of trying to keep up with new ways of viewing the same old stuff that we'll actually just throw everything aside and start listening to transistor radio and attending operas? I'm hanging on to my old Victrola just in case.
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1-06-2007 @ 2:59PM
Jake said...
Regular DVD is still king, and with all this competition in HD, I doubt regular DVD will go away anytime soon. There is obviously difference, but not sooo much that the normal consumer will stop buying regular DVD. Plus, TV is in regular DVD, and TV is king right now in DVD sales. So good luck to WB
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1-06-2007 @ 6:40PM
David said...
Well I was debating on another site and I said the whole thing is pointless because they have ways of triple layering discs so all three fit. This guy is like "no it's not possible, there's not enough room". I'm glad I was right and don't even understand the tech.
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1-07-2007 @ 12:02AM
erroneous_nick said...
Being someone old enough to have suffered through the Betamax/VHS "wars", I'm going to do the same thing with this DVD format fiasco as I did back then; I'm not buying anything until a single standard is set. I may be wrong, but I suspect that the majority of possible customers for HiDef DVD content are probably doing the same thing.
Wouldn't it be great if all consumers simply refused to buy either one until a single standard was set? I bet we'd see a resolution in a jiffy if that were to happen, which it won't/isn't/will never.
One can dream...
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1-07-2007 @ 3:32AM
Brent McKee said...
There are only two ways to get a single standard. One is what happened with video tape, where Sony made the mistake of not licensing home Betamax to other companies until far too late which let JVC's VHS to dominate the market. The other is what happened with audio cassettes, where Philips offered the to license the format for free on the grounds that they'd make their money in manufacturing players (ironically at the urging of Sony). The way things are going it seems apparent that Sony intends to follow the former rather than the latter course.
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