New Blue Ray going to replace DVD's completely?

Question

Is the new Blue Ray going to replace DVD's or just add on to them? I hope it doesn't replace them because I own about 140 DVD's (I collect movies) and over 100 VHS, I don't need another movie medium to have to work with. Not to mention I will have to fit a Blue Ray on my tv stand next to the VHS player and DVD player and nintendo. I don't think I can fit it.

Answer 1

Blu-Ray is backed by Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson.
Blu-ray or maybe HD DVD will likely eventually replace DVD but the important thing for you is that all Blu-ray players also play regular DVDs. You won't have to replace your library and you can just replace your DVD player with the B-R player. Furthermore the Blu-Ray players have scalers built in to improve the picture quality of standard DVDs on an HDTV.

Answer 2

Great, Great question!!! The answer is no for now. Why? It's expensive, and there is not a lot of media (software) burned onto Blue-Ray & there may not need to be since a HD DVD DUal layer can hold about 30gigs 15 more than a regular DVD. We all know we can get 1 movie w/features on a regular DVD. So how much more info do we need. Blue Ray has about 45-50 gig. Again, Do we really need all this? Yes, to some degree. For professional applications. Blue Ray be the way to go if you have proprierty software used for corporations business practices. Or if you want to burn like 3 movies onto 1 disc compared to 2 movies on a Dual layer DVD. Which by the way you need a Dual layer DVD rom.
I wish they came up with Blue ray Technology in the a size that cold fit in the palm of your hand. Then it would be worth it. but to keep it the same physical size..YUK!! It's just going to make everyone spend more money on more players and it's not worth it for the average consumer to buy it. Unless you want to condense you dvd portfolio or personal stuff, but not movies for the DVD movie collector like yourself. For the Movie Hacker.. they are drooling. Basically the average consumer has no need for so much Free space that a regular Dual layer DVD provides.

Answer 3

I doubt that Blue Ray will make regular DVD's obsolete any time too soon. For one, Blue Ray is a new format that is being pushed by Sony, but hasn't really been adopted widely by the other manufacturers. The price of Blue Ray players are very expensive right now, and there are no Blue Ray recorders.

If Blue Ray will replace regular DVD's, it will be at a point where your existing DVD player will probably have broken down and needed to be replaced.

Answer 4

No more than DTS-CD, SACD or DVD-A has replaced CDs.

There is too much of an installed base of DVDs, the picture quality differential is small for the relatively high cost of entry, and the sound improvements allowed by blue laser based disk's (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) higher storage capacity and bandwidth improvements of HDMI 1.3 will only sell to a small fraction of consumers.

As shown by the popularity of MP3s (convenience) versus DTS-CD, SACD and DVD-A (sound quality) consumer give a higher priority to convenience (and low cost) over quality (and higher cost).

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is most likely destined to remain a niche market for home A/V, although it may find a bit of a life in the gaming world (XBox 360 and PS3). The real successor to DVDs for home emtertainment is most likely to be a totally different technology (e.g holographic storage or video on demand) rather than a minor (but expensive) incremental improvement on DVDs.

Answer 5

It relies upon on a range of of thinks like if common businesses positioned their video clips on blu-ray, how a lot blu-ray gamers cost, how a lot is their competion promoting their product for(HD-DVD). The existence expenticence of an time-honored DVD video must be continuously in case you're taking reliable care of it.

Answer 6

I certainly hope not I have way too many DVDs for that. I don't think the picture quality difference actually bothers the general consumer that much any ways. Too soon I say, too soon.