On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19
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4 +1000, "Terry Wrist" <police@fed.gov.au>
wrote:
>Not sure what your point is. When DVD was released it wasn't even meant to
>last 5 years as High Definition products were already being released.
Err .. what ? Source please. That sounds like an urban myth.
>There seems to be a lot of negativity towards the new HD disc formats, think
>a lot of it comes from those who spent thousands on a DVD library after a
>VHS library and are scared of buying all their titles again.
Nope. A lot of the "negativity" stems from common sense and not
succumbing to greedy corporate interests.
> Well it's
>actually in most of our interests to see BluRay succeed. HD-DVD is dead;
What has HD DVD got to do with anything ?
>BluRay has the advantage that a player will play DVD and Panasonics BluRay
>burner will play and record DVDs as well as BluRays.
That is hardly an incentive to buy a Blu-ray player.
> Sure it is more
>expensive new technology always is. Players have come down in price 60% and
>blank media 80% in twelve months.
You're forgetting that most people don't really give a hoot about
picture quality - something which Blu-ray claims to improve
dramatically. It aint their - period. Joe sixpack and co want content
and couldn't care less if Salma Hayek's arse looks clearer in HD.
>Hard Drives are cheap I can get a 1Tb USB HDD for under $200. It's a great
>way to store a video library it's small and compact, instant access. The
>problem is where do the films come from to get on the drive? I know many
>people are downloading torrents. Most of these are crap quality and are
>illegal.
You obviously haven't looked very hard.
> It is possible to pay for and legally download films, these are
>great for some but not everyone has the bandwidth to do this. Internet in
>Australia is not cheap enough and download rates are not fast enough to make
>this an option all can use.
Australia is the arse end of the world for broadband - and it's likely
to stay that way for some time to come. You can forget about VoD and
IPoTV being deployed on a larger scale.
>Some rent movies from a store and copy them to a hard drive to watch later.
>Fine but they still have to be in a format like BluRay to bring home.
Bugger-all people that I've seen are renting Blu-ray titles. The
majority are grabbing regular DVDs to rent.
>Solid state memory USB drives, SD cards etc. These are great and as seen
>with Panasonics camcorder a viable option for reusable use. Problem is they
>will never compete for price with a little plastic disc to manufacture a
>64Mb SD card and a 50Gb BluRay disc may cost similar prices in stores today
>but we can expect BluRay discs to drop the price of DVDs 20-30cents each but
>a SD card will probably only drop to $10 at it's cheapest.
Flash memory technology is still not reliable enough for video usage.
The random access transfer rates are actually quite bad when one looks
at the latest 16GB modules.
>Yeah there are other options ready to go but as a format suitable for the
>masses BluRay is the best option and all technology is fleating. In a short
>period we have seen wax recordings, reel to reel tape, vinyl records,
>compact cassette, VHS, CDs, DVDs with lesser formats in the middle nothing
>lasts forever.
How is it "the best option" ?
1. The discs are more fragile than DVD
2. One needs a HDTV to view HD Blu-ray content
3. Blu-ray players are expensive and incomplete (missing profiles)
4. HDTVs are expensive and many mid-range ones cannot do 1080p
5. Blu-ray recordable media (BR-R, BD-RE) costs a bomb
Yeah, the "best option" all right - If you're a clueless moron with
more money than sense. Most people don't fall into that pidgeonhole.