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Posted by Spex on 11/10/06 11:15
Maxheadspace wrote:
> Blu Ray will lose because it priced itself out of the market. In an effort
> to come out with the most bells, whistles, and storage space, Sony ended up
> with a product that was way too expensive and market un-friendly. Right now
> I can burn up to 40 minutes of HD-DVD video on conventional DVD-R disks
> using my stock DVD burner. My only investment was Ulead MovieFactory 5
> which cost me $49. The HD-DVD player is half the price of a Sony Blu Ray
> player.
>
> I bought my HDV camera to be on the leading edge of getting HD products out
> there. I can do so right now, with some limitations, going the HD-DVD
> route.
>
> I love Sony products, but I get the impression that Sony wanted to add
> bullet-proof anti-pirating protection to their disks, which increased the
> complexity and cost of their product.
>
> I'll keep chugging along with HD-DVD, because I know the market is growing.
> It's simpler, it's cheaper, and it's here now.
>
> Max
>
I hope both products fail. The overriding concern during the
development of these two HD formats were the lining of the pockets of
corporations and not the satisfaction of the end user.
The very fact that there is another format war to be played out with the
consumers' cash is reprehensible. I shall be boycotting both formats
until the price has fallen to current levels or, what is more likely, a
competing technology usurps the pair of formats.
Combine technologies similar to Apple's iTV and internet access that
South Korea currently enjoys where bandwidth is measured in MB/s rather
than Mb/s and you see the future of content delivery to the home.
Next gen DVD? No ta, I think I'll skip this one...
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