WinslowLeach wrote:I also dont want to buy movies on tiny little discs, pretty soon theyll be so small theyll be like coins. "Hey wanna watch a movie?" "OK!" (Reaches into pocket) Cmon, gimme a break.
Petri wrote:Well, Microsoft announced that they will have HD-DVD addon available for the XBox 360.
ZombieZoneSolutions wrote:
I guarentee you next year "Blu-Ray" will be the word on everyones lips...
ZombieZoneSolutions wrote:Petri wrote:Well, Microsoft announced that they will have HD-DVD addon available for the XBox 360.
Wait, so you can buy and extra addon for the XBox to watch HD-DVD while Blu-Ray comes for free (well, standard) with the PS3, has superior picture quality, and has full backward compatibility?
Sony wins.
I mean, seriously, Sony is the market leader and the Playstation owns the gaming market. The only reason anyone is paying any attention to the XBox 360 at all is because it was the first next-gen console to come out. Sony knows this, and thats why they can take their sweet time / do whatever the heck the want.
I guarentee you next year "Blu-Ray" will be the word on everyones lips...
WinslowLeach wrote:Ok so this Blue Ray BS isnt going to replace DVDs. I just had a convo about it. This isnt even worth bothering with anymore. Next subject!
HD DVD players will be available in March at prices as low as $500, beating Blu-ray Disc players to the market by several months and less than half the cost.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Toshiba America Consumer Products announced its first two HD DVD high-definition models--players only, not recorders--will start shipping in March at prices of $500 and $800.
The prices are much lower than many had predicted and clearly sends a signal that the HD DVD camp, which has built its next-generation format on the base of the existing DVD and therefore has lower development and manufacturing costs, plans to try to beat the entirely new Blu-ray format on aggressive low pricing.
New Blu-ray Disc player models announced Wednesday by Pioneer Electronics USA and to be announced Thursday by Samsung are priced two-to-three times as high at $1,800 and about $1,000, respectively.
Basically, the world goeth where Sony leadeth.
kortanaskew wrote:Basically, the world goeth where Sony leadeth.
UMD on PSP is another big fuck up. 5-7 dollars more for a movie you can play on anything else otehr than your PSP?
They screwed up because some people were already putting out movies on mini-dvd's for even tinier handheld DVD players. Plus these movies would work on the big players at home too.
THey wanted their own goddamned format to control things with.
Smart consumers are just ripping their regular DVDs to play on the PSP. instead of buying UMD.
I see this more as being equatable to the launch of the proposed CD replacements - SACD and DVDA.
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