some more blu-ray vs hd-dvd
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The ultimate loser is the consumer because this will end up costing us 150 million, not the studios.
Why?
Just imagine how great this format would be without HD DVD.
We could enjoy $1000 players and $39.99 discs.
Wouldn't that be great? -
Why?
Just imagine how great this format would be without HD DVD.
We could enjoy $1000 players and $39.99 discs.
Wouldn't that be great?
because sony would dictate such. supply and demand. competition. god bless both formats. i'm rather enjoying this war. and i'm gonna have high def from both sides. and as long as this war wages on, prices will continue to drop. if one side prevails, like mike said, hardware and media will probably raise in price. at least for awhile. of course, dvd did finally come down in price being that that format won out.
initial investment of hardware is the most expensive part of this continuing war. in the short term, that is. but i got both players, hd dvd and blu, at super prices. 'super' being a subjective word. but now that i have both, i can now have it all!
POLK SDA-SRS 1.2TL -- ADCOM GFA-5802
PANASONIC PT-AE4000U -- DIY WILSONART DW 135" 2.35:1 SCREEN
ONKYO TX-SR805
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MAINS: RTI8'S
SURROUNDS: RTI8'S
7.1 SURROUNDS: RTI6'S
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http://polkarmy.com/forums/index.phpbobman1235 wrote:I have no facts to back that up, but I never let facts get in the way of my arguments. -
cyberhazard wrote: »"Paramount pisses me off!"
-Michael Bay
He flipflopped.
"Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three blu-ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.
As a director, I'm all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.
So today I saw 300 on HD, it rocks!
So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!" -
You see a dollar figure but I would bet that there is a whole lot more in that contract than money.
Only my opinion, but my guess would be that microsoft is giving the studios a lot of assistance in VC-1 encoding of their material as well as pushing a business model where everyone downloads their movies for a limited time via xbox live. I keep wondering why hollywood studios would purposely prolong a format war that can only slow consumer penetration of any format at best and at worst turn the whole thing into another sacd dvd-a scenario. It could be that universal and paramount are now committed to the download model with prime placement from microsoft if and when it takes off. And if consumers start signing onto HD disks in a big way, they've only committed to a year or so of lost sales. Sort of hedging their bets. But it probably means they really believe in the whole download business model.
Complete speculation on my part. My only beef with everything going to download would be that even without a time limit, you can't store that many movies on a 120GB hard drive, the dreaded DRM keeping the content on the box, and the materials are likely to be poorer in quality as they will have an incentive to reduce the size of the download over available bandwidths. But both of those would be advantages to movie studios seeing their dvd sales flat (you have to keep buying movies over and over) and who have arguably spent very little in comparison to the likes of warner either developing supplemental materials for thier disks or lossless audio tracks. Could be a win for average consumers who don't care as much about quality or content. But for videophiles, it would be sad seeing less attention paid to high quality HD disks.
As I've always said, should be an interesting Christmas season.
