Is the whole "Blue Ray" and "HD" format over blown?

Answer 1

Not when you think about the benefits.

Take a DVD. It only has the ability of 345,600 pixels (720 X 480). Yet the two new format have 2,073,600 pixels (1920 X 1080) to make the image that much crisper. Look at this comparison...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Standard_video_res.svg

The new HD format is much better than any other consumer base video.

But why stop here. The Japanese are working on a system with 33,177,600 pixels (7680 x 4320 16 times higher than standard Hi-vision, NHK’s HDTV system).

Answer 2

I think it is a good thing.

Having competition (a choice) is driving prices down and movie studios are under pressure to sign up with one camp or the other and get movies out.

Keep in mind: Hollywood has fought moving to HD. They predict no more profit from producing a standard DVD and they are afraid 1 HD movie getting out will spawn millions of pirated copies on VHS and VideoCD in Asia and Europe.

If only 1 format was available - Hollywood would adopt a 'wait and see' attitude and we would have perhaps 20 titles instead of the 350 we currently have.

And the players would be in the $900 range instead of $200.

So I want the format war to be "over blown". It generates 'buzz' which makes Hollywood sit up and take notice.

Answer 3

HD by itself is wonderful.

Blu-ray and its competitor, HD-DVD are both overblown, and a waste of money. Why these companies felt it was a good idea to make consumers choose which half of the movies on the market they CAN'T watch is just incomprehensible to me. Seriously, why would ANYONE buy a device that was more of a statement of which studios you like as opposed to just wanting to watch movies? But, that's exactly what the current HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players are.

All indicators point at multi-format capable players being released early next year, which will mean consumers no longer have to make stupid decisions between Spiderman3 and Transformers as now they'd be able to watch both movies even though they're on different formats. These players also mean that ANY player that can't play both formats is obsolete, broken, and a waste of money.

Answer 4

Yes. Sony will stick to it until they are bankrupt after losing the last one on the video tape. HD is of course the better value for recorders and players. If Sony would get off their ego and start making products at a more reasonable price, people would probably get that style. Having to make up loss on the playstation through the sale of BlueRay disk products has cost them, and probably will in the future. They are committed to it since that is what they installed in the PS units and have to support them or really hurt sales for a long time.

Answer 5

personally i do but that's just my opinion