Negative Sun Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Thanks for the info Joshi, it does seem like a good solution to me, whether it will succeed is another thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 The only small problem distributors would of course have is that they'd have to record their data twice on the same disc, using two different codecs. A lot of them may find it to be a waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 The only small problem distributors would of course have is that they'd have to record their data twice on the same disc, using two different codecs. A lot of them may find it to be a waste of time. But then again, if the price is attractive, they will definitely sell I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 If The price is attractive. With the extra amount of work needed to record the disc, it'd probably be cheaper to just make it format specific and let the customers choose. Remember, if it costs more money to make, it'll sell at a higher price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 If The price is attractive. With the extra amount of work needed to record the disc, it'd probably be cheaper to just make it format specific and let the customers choose. Remember, if it costs more money to make, it'll sell at a higher price. With good marketing, they might be able to pull it off though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It'll be the distributors choice long before it's ours, marketing won't make much difference. I guess we'll just have to wait and see on what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 The question was which you thought will succeed/which you support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 If I had to choose between the two...HD-DVD...now that it is on the 360...it's getting easier and easier to start watching movies in true HD...and plus, the PS3 will flop (in my opinion...besides...I'm a Wii kinda person myself)...so yea...but right now...I'll stay with regular DVD...those "upconvert" players are looking nice right now too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narfblat Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 I'm going to wait until the next advancement in storage technology wipes the walls with these snooty HD-DVD and Blue-Ray technologies. I think regular DVD's are going to stick around for quite a while. VHS to DVD was a really exciting change, offering a smaller, better, and cooler looking storage medium for videos. The change from DVD to the new formats is better image on high-definition TV's. Also, the short time between DVD and the new formats leaves us wondering how soon the next improvement is going to be, so we wonder if we should upgrade yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 The problem comes when the next gen format comes along and people start saying "Well, that's very nice, but I wonder what'll come along in a couple of years and whether that would be better, I think I'll just stick with what I have now and wait" and before you know it, technology's left you in the dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai DD Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Neither. In this day and age, both will survive and everything will eventually run both. Hopeully. If not, I'm a bit bent to the HD-DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I just hope that certain companies won't be supporting ONLY HD-DVD or ONLY Blu-Ray...b/c then it's just like deciding what console to buy...not to mention...splitting the market is a bad thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I just hope that certain companies won't be supporting ONLY HD-DVD or ONLY Blu-Ray...b/c then it's just like deciding what console to buy...not to mention...splitting the market is a bad thing to do. They already have, most of the major distribution companies are split either backing one or the other with only a handful backing both. Which is why, until one wins out (or you have enough money to buy both players) it's best, for the time being, to stick with DVD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 I just think that the movie industry gets further down the drain every day...stupid choices made by stupid people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reven0123 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I'm happy with normal DVDs thanks. QFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achrono Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I don't support either although if I had to choose, I'd get HD-DVD. Blu-ray just seems like another format thats going to fail... (ie UMD) And really, whats the big difference between either of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Blu-Ray has a higher capacity then HD-DVD and thus, can hold higher resolution images and better sound quality for better High Definition picture and sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 That is not true, Neil. It can hold more high-res thingers due to it's higher capacity. Not higher resolutions. Also, since both techniques are based on the same principles, like CDs and DVDs, and basically it's still nothing else than a suped up CD, the market will most probably end up with "omnipotent" players/writers, just like we see nowadays with combined CD/DVD drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Technically, if it wanted to it, could holder higher resolution images or more images. The only difference being one would hold more data (more movie, more special features and so on) and one would hold better data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrik Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Well actually he's right. At the end of the day, data is data. If you've got more capacity, then that can be used for either higher resolution images or longer movies. Of course, whether or not any televisions would be able to display the higher resolution images is another matter, but the discs could certainly hold them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 HD images have been around a lot longer than there were TV's that could display them (by very definition, CAD artists tend to work in extremely high resolution and then compress down for viewing, movies are made in the same way these days and have been for a few years now). All it would really take is for the TV manufacturers to catch up (or the people who make projectors as these seem to be a common Home Theatre item these days). Even still, before the release of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD's, there were Superbit DVD's, which were essentially normal DVD's, but the entire space of the DVD taken up with just the movie, at a very high resolution (higher than most TV's could display at the time) and better sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 HD-DVDs are normal DVDs, too. The whole thing is a stupid hype over a small advance in commonly available technique, nothing more. Also, I don't think it's too useful to increase resolutions and sound-quality up to what ever, because in the end it's something that is not needed for the common or even more advanced screen experience. Okay, it is useful this time, because it's a noticeable difference for the TV sector. But we all know high resolution graphics from what we have on our computer screens, and that is also why HD tech becomes "necessary", because seriously, if you gonna watch a normal DVD via PC it visually sucks to no extend on a crystal clear TFT display due to data reduction and possible de-compression losses. But high-res is nothing new, DVD isn't either. And HDTV was introduced like over ten years ago. The only difference being one would hold more data (more movie, more special features and so on) and one would hold better data.You can put full HD-DVD data onto a floppy disk, if you want. That may mean you need 10 floppy disks for one pixel, and another 10 for the audio data, you still have full HD data on floppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Never said that wasn't possible, but now it's possible for it all to be on one Disc. And as for who'd want better resolution, you'd be surprised at the kind of people out there that strive for perfection with this type of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 And as for who'd want better resolution, you'd be surprised at the kind of people out there that strive for perfection with this type of thing. No, I wouldn't, because I'm one of them. Though I think there is a point where "perfection" is not more than a substitute for "small-penis-compensation", if you get my meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 True, but tell someone who loves this stuff that they can get really good picture with one thing, and then slightly better picture with something else and what are they going to choose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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