Who Here has a Blu-Ray Disk Player???

Question

In Canada what does one of the cheaper Priced BluRay Disk Players go for???
Doesnt it piss you off that Blu-Ray is sucking the life out of D.V.D.Players???
I mean Why do we need Blu Ray Disks???
Arent B.R. Disks the same shape as D.V.D,,s???
I bet they invented B.R Players to piss off the poor folk who have trouble keeping up with Technology
Whats going to come after C.D.,s???
little Blu C.D.s (Yes Im being sarcastic)

Answer 1

The cheapest blu-ray player around would probably be the ps3. blu-ray isnt sucking life from anything except HD-DVDs. u can play DVDs on a blu-ray player. Blu-ray disks is important because it holds 5 times more memory than DVD. DVD=9gb Blu-Ray=50gb so if you're backing sum files you wont need 2 put it on like 3 DVDS when u can have a single disk. Also game developers can put more into games cuz more space 2 put it in. Studios can put more sound and picture cuz theres more space 2 do it in. Also we have 2 advance in technology cuz we cant stay with DVD forever. Its part of society. Yes blu-ray is the same shape as DVD but it has special coating so it wont skip or scratch as easily. Theres this new type of CD called Super Audio CD, its supposed 2 play songs in full surround sound or something but i havent really seen any of those.

Answer 2

Well I own an LG superblu player which plays both blu-ray and hd dvd, but I don't find it sucks the life out of dvd....I still enjoy watching movies on dvd.....like older movies and low-budget horror b-movies which wouldn't really make good use of the high-def quality of blu-ray or hd dvd. There's always some new technology just around the corner......as far as cd's there were DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD's that came out a while back.....but people never bought into it and neither format came out on top. It's a shame cuz I have some DVD-Audio discs and they sound amazing......I think things are going to be better for the high-def movie formats though......players are getting cheaper and so will the movies soon enough.

Answer 3

I even have the Sony Blu-Ray participant, yet to tell the certainty, the PS3 is a miles better deal. in case you desire to play a game or 2, that's there, and who knows who will win the format conflict? you moreover mght have the online acquire of the Blu-Ray updates as you stated, yet purely FYI in case you get the Sony participant, you are able to acquire the updates on line and burn them to a disc. Then, you in basic terms positioned the disc in and the participant updates itself that way. as much as you needless to say, yet as quickly as I had it to do another time, i could have offered the PS3.

Answer 4

You are largely correct in your suspicions about HD disks..

What seems to have been missed is the implications of the recent announcement by Toshiba (the people behind HD DVD) that it is possible to put 2 hrs of HD video on a standard DVD .... so why was HD DVD (or Blu-Ray) necessary? For industry profit, not for consumer benefit.

But neither Blu-Ray nor HD DVD are "sucking the life out of DVD". On the contrary, over 95% of disks sold are normal DVDs ... less than 5% are Blu-Ray or HD DVD ... and until 1080p HDTVs larger than about 40" become more common the numbers are not likely to change much (anything less doesn't benefit appreciably from HD disks relative to DVDs on a good upscaling player).

BTW. Blu-Ray does NOT have 5x the storage capacity of HD DVD (depending on version HD DVD has 15,30 or 51 GB capacity and Blu-Ray has 25 or 50 GB).

Also, DVD as a format has been around since the early 1990's NOT 1940's (the use of binary coding may be that old, but DVDs are not)

Blu-Ray and HD DVD are the same shape and size as DVDs (and CDs) but are not the same and can't be played on a DVD player (HD disks use blue laser light (finer) while DVD uses red)

While for people with equipment to benefit from them they are an advance, the real reason for HD DVD and Blu-Ray is that manufacturers can't make any money selling DVD players, and needed something new.

Studios bought in because they had begun to worry about decreasing profits from DVD disk sales, and while decreasing prices for older movies helped for a while, they needed an excuse to sell higher priced disks. Blu-Ray and HD DVD gave them that chance.

Hardware manufactuers also bought into HDMI because it meant consumers had to buy new receivers and TVs to take advantage of HDMI ... and just to make sure they ensured that HDCP made it impossible to get HD video over older ... and better ... component cables.

So, we have "industry" benefiting from sales of all the new hardware and studios having a perfect excuse to charge higher prices for disks. HOWEVER, the format war (to a degree) and consumer reluctance to spend $thousands for a relatively small benefit have put the boots to industry plans ... at least the player and disk manufacturers (the receiver and HDTV and cable suppliers are doing quite well thanks).

Don't get me wrong. I love HD and I support the move to HDTV, but I believe we could have had HD on DVD ... we didn't need incompatible HD disks. We also didn't need HDMI ... one of the worst pieces of crap ever foisted on the public (and we have no choice but to use it because component has been crippled for HD use.

To put it in perspective I get a picture from my normal DVDs (that I NEVER pay more than $7-10 for) on my 110" screen from my projector and upsampling DVD player that is almost indistinguishable from HD DVD. Sure, I have a 720p/1080i projector and a 1080i HD DVD player so I accept that on a 1080p projector I would see more of a difference ... but not enough for me to go out and spend $2-3000 to get it. particularly when only about 1 movie in 10 comes even close to justifying the extra cost to buy an HD disk.

So ... I agree with your sentiment, and obvously so do the vast majority of consumers. The real shame is the confusion that this whole HD disk debacle has caused and the number of people who have been sucked into spending money for players and disks they won't even benefit from. Just think how many people have bought Blu-Ray or HD DVD disks thinking they can play them on their old DVD player ... or hooked up their new HD player via RCA composite (or even component) to their EDTV or HDTV without HDMI input and thought they were getting HD. Sad ... and at some point a consumer backlask may happen.

As to price ... have you noticed that as Canadians we pay much more for disks and players and HDTVs, don't get the same promotional specials and yet our $ is worth more than the lowly greenback? I don't know about you, but I feel really Poed at studios and hardware manufactuers and I'm in no hurry to buy (further) into the whole mess.

Answer 5

Did you know that the video on a DVD is a 1940's standard? We have been stuck with this standard for over 60 years.

Sure - we package it from an antenna, to cable, to video tape, to DVD - but the video is the same: designed for a 9-inch tube (black and white).

Frankly we are way over-due for some improvement.