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Posted by asj on 10/07/22 11:50
Blu-ray uses Java and supports Linux.
I have been canvassing HD-DVD and have seen unsold players and movie
titles here in NJ. Since Toshiba is widely-held to be subsidizing the
cost of HDDVD, you gotta wonder how long a company like Toshiba (which
is much smaller than the manufacturers who are shipping Blu-ray like
Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc) can last ;-)
asj wrote:
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1977327,00.asp
>
> The format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has finally reached
> consumers, now that Samsung is shipping the BD-P1000 Blu-Ray player to
> retailers. The BD-P1000 ($999.99 list), will go on sale June 25th,
> making it the first Blu-Ray player to hit the market. Until now, the
> only high-definition video player shoppers could buy has been the
> Toshiba HD-A1, which has been in short supply.
>
> The BD-P1000 is twice the price of the HD-A1, but Jim Sanduski, senior
> vice president of marketing for Samsung's Audio and Video Products
> Group, says that won't hurt sales. "Dealer demand is really strong,"
> Sanduski says. "Yes, we are double the price of HD-DVD, but we are
> confident people will buy as many as we can build."
>
> The Samsung BD-P1000 supports full 1080p playback, something the first
> generation of HD-DVD players do not. The BD-P1000 also up-converts
> conventional DVDs to 1080p to improve video quality. The player comes
> with HDMI, Component, S-video, and composite outputs. Samsung has also
> included a 10-in-2 multi-memory-card interface for viewing digital
> images directly from flash cards.
>
> There will be just 10 Blu-Ray titles available when the BD-P100 ships,
> including 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying
> Daggers, A Knight's Tale, The Last Waltz, Resident Evil Apocalypse, and
> xXx. Sanduski says by the end of year the number of titles will swell
> to as many as 200.
>
> This is one area where Blu-Ray could have a potential advantage over
> HD-DVD. "Eighty-four percent of all the movies released last year were
> made by studios that have announced support for Blu-Ray," according to
> Sanduski. "That is a huge strike against HD-DVD." To be fair, some
> studios plan to release movies on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
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