Your DVD is obsolete !

[mete]

Toshiba and Sony have come out with Blue-ray technology for DVDs , replacing the present red laser with blue so they can fit more stuff on the disk. The two systems are different so it will be a VHS/Beta battle all over again to see who takes over !!...If I was a millionaire I could afford to throw out all my electronic stuff each year and buy new !Since I'm not , I'll always be obsolete.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Man, I thought it was bad that George Lucas is releasing the original Star Wars trilogy on dvd with the special edition versions, on the same DVD, for 30 bucks!

 

[Suicycoprowler]

Blue ray technology has been out for over ten years now. I remember talks in the mid-90s about how blue ray CD players were going to make the normal CD players obsolete. A year later, a friend of mine began purchasing everything on mini-disc thinking that CDs would soon be obsolete. Sometimes the market has a lot more say over things than whatever the current technology may be.

 

[Vivi]

Blu-Ray VS HD-DVD will be the new Betamax battle, not DVD vs Blu-Ray.

Two new formats replacing something that's still doing fine in my opinion. *shrug*

You can always make the choice to not buy them. Enough people do that and normal DVD's will stick around.

I still buy cassette tapes and regular CD's when I buy music.

 

[DaveH]

I think the problem is there's not currently much consumer _need_ for Blu-Ray disks, the current technology works pretty much good enough.

What they need is for micrsoft, or some other company dvelops somethign that everyone MUST HAVE that will only fit on the new format.

 

[Simon Yu]

What they need is for micrsoft, or some other company dvelops somethign that everyone MUST HAVE that will only fit on the new format.

Oh, they definately will. With computers, every time there's been an innovation to increase storage space it's been used. The question right now is really which next-gen DVD format will be on top.

 

[ZENGHOST]

The new PS3 is supposed to come with Blu-Ray technology. There won't be much reason to buy any new player until they standardize something--that's always the problem.

 

[eojk]

The new PS3 is supposed to come with Blu-Ray technology.

I'm excited to see just how far Sony will be able to take this technology with their games. Developers must be rejoicing with the vastly expanded possibilities with the enormous storage that Blu-Ray offers. It's going to be hard not being able to afford one until I'm done with my undergrad studies.

 

[Simon Yu]

I'm excited to see just how far Sony will be able to take this technology with their games. Developers must be rejoicing with the vastly expanded possibilities with the enormous storage that Blu-Ray offers. It's going to be hard not being able to afford one until I'm done with my undergrad studies.

I doubt that it'll affect much for the PS3. Multi-disc games are pretty standard if you can't fit everything onto one disc since the cost to print an additional disc is extremely low. And while it might be an improvement in optical storage, optical storage is still really, really slow compared to other storage.

 

[Temper]

Maybe they should just frikking make things that can talk to each other, I for one am not buying any of this crap until there is a universal standard. I only buy Pirate DVD's too because I am pissed off with this Region BS. If Hollywood gets pissed off enough they will force the hardware makers to get a clue. I know I can buy a multi region DVD, I shouldnt have to though. :thumbdn:

 

[Bladite]

sony has been j'accused of faking their blu ray demos and might not actually have anything viable right now. much of their stuff is tanking now. poor sony

bladite

 

[Simon Yu]

Maybe they should just frikking make things that can talk to each other, I for one am not buying any of this crap until there is a universal standard. I only buy Pirate DVD's too because I am pissed off with this Region BS. If Hollywood gets pissed off enough they will force the hardware makers to get a clue. I know I can buy a multi region DVD, I shouldnt have to though. :thumbdn:

Hollywood doesn't really care. It's the consumer electronics companies in Japan and Europe that want to keep their artificially high prices high. On this side of the pond, we pay half or even less than what you do in Japan for DVDs and CDs and that scares the CE companies over there (though admittedly I'd gladly pay more for some of the extras that get included in Japanese DVD releases).

That said, I've heard rumors that one of the proprieters of next-gen DVDs was considering doing away with region coding, but I'm not sure how well that would work given that the DVD manufacturers are the ones that like the region codes.

 

[eojk]

That said, I've heard rumors that one of the proprieters of next-gen DVDs was considering doing away with region coding, but I'm not sure how well that would work given that the DVD manufacturers are the ones that like the region codes.

I read in a gaming magazine(forget which) that stated Sony will do this with the PS3. The horrendous tradeoff is that once a new game disk is played in a PS3 it is permanently registered to that system. This means that region encoding is unnecessary, but it also means total destruction for the secondary market.

 

[Simon Yu]

I read in a gaming magazine(forget which) that stated Sony will do this with the PS3. The horrendous tradeoff is that once a new game disk is played in a PS3 it is permanently registered to that system. This means that region encoding is unnecessary, but it also means total destruction for the secondary market.

Ah, that's probably what I was thinking of, just had wires crossed. And yes, that would suck, especially if you live in Japan where the secondary market for games is HUGE (and unlike most US gamers, they actually take good care of their stuff). Of course, I've heard Japanese companies mention that profits have gone down partially because gamers there are just buying games used instead of new copies so it might be intentional . . .