ggrussell Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Interesting point of view on the future of Blu-Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Interesting point of view on the future of Blu-Ray Interesting Gary. I guess time will tell just like all the other new ideas that come at us. Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Interesting take on it. I was still hoping that the Chinese company that bought the rights to HD DVD would do something with it. If HD DVD was cheap enough, I would still use it for my own personal home videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaper1 Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 While I don't fully agree on all the points, it's an interesting read. Gary, do you mean HDVD? It is fairly popular in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 No, HD DVD. I had heard awhile back that Toshiba sold all rights and technology of HD DVD to a Chinese company after they admitted defeat by Blu-Ray. China has the ability to flood the market with really cheap HD DVD players, burners and media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 It's all going to boil down in the end to what the CUSTOMERS want - what killed beta wasn't the technology or the pricing - it was the punters voting with their wallets and buying VHS in preference to Beta. It doesn't matter how much hardware is produced and how cheap it is - if most people go buy Blu-Ray firmware, then HD is dead in the water and that ius going to deepend on which side produces the most titles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 It's all going to boil down in the end to what the CUSTOMERS want - what killed beta wasn't the technology or the pricing - it was the punters voting with their wallets and buying VHS in preference to Beta. It doesn't matter how much hardware is produced and how cheap it is - if most people go buy Blu-Ray firmware, then HD is dead in the water and that ius going to deepend on which side produces the most titles The 6 hr., extended play tapes, for the inferior VHS system is what killed Beta. Beta could only record 3-1/2 hours, at the normal quality, which was far superior to VHS, at best quality. I still have 2 working Beta video recorders. I don't use them, but they still work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I agree, the longer record/play time, whooped Beta. cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 It's all going to boil down in the end to what the CUSTOMERS want - what killed beta wasn't the technology or the pricing - it was the punters voting with their wallets and buying VHS in preference to Beta.Although I can agree to that in theory, but the potential customers would also need to have the chance to make up their minds - which we didn't with HD DVD. Toshiba threw in the towel too oearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Actually the Philips 2000 beat both of them - double sided 4 hour tapes (8 hours total) but it still got knocked out Philips eventually gave in and switched to producing one of the Japanese machines under licewnse until the re-tooled for VHS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Interesting point of view on the future of Blu-Ray Yep... I'd actually just run across this blog, which appears to reference the one you linked to. I've little interest in Blu-Ray myself. Heck, we still use VHS for our time-shifting. (Sorry, no Tivo attached to our broadcast antenna mounted on our chimney.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrallas Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Yep... I'd actually just run across this blog, which appears to reference the one you linked to. I've little interest in Blu-Ray myself. Heck, we still use VHS for our time-shifting. (Sorry, no Tivo attached to our broadcast antenna mounted on our chimney.) Just read the blog you cited. For those out there w/a blu-ray player, is it true that the player has a slow start up compared to non-blu-ray and that blu-ray does not remember where you are in the middle of a disc when you turn it off? PS: W./ the snow you get in Owego, I'm glad your chimney's antenna is holding up. (I get my share of "lake effect" from Lake Ontario in Baldwinsville. If you don't know what lake effect is, be happy. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Just read the blog you cited. For those out there w/a blu-ray player, is it true that the player has a slow start up compared to non-blu-ray and that blu-ray does not remember where you are in the middle of a disc when you turn it off? PS: W./ the snow you get in Owego, I'm glad your chimney's antenna is holding up. (I get my share of "lake effect" from Lake Ontario in Baldwinsville. If you don't know what lake effect is, be happy. ) We get some Lake Effect snow, but not as much as you, since we're a bit further south. It's interesting to watch the radar when the Lake Effect engine is running. We have one broken "leg" on our antenna, but it's been up there for 15 years now. We have a rotor on it too so we can turn it around and get a station out of Elmira too, but usually it's pointed over towards Binghamton. As for the player not remembering where he left off on a movie, I suspect that's player specific, but I have no BD experience to go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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