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Posted by asjbiotek on 01/27/07 07:44
Actually, there is a difference between the two at the programming
level....it is possible to create much richer intrective applications
on Blu-ray than Hd-dvd because Blu-ray uses Java (the same programming
language that is used by eBay, google, etc, and by games in your
cellphones)..
As the platform matures, you will get much greater interactivity
possible in blu-ray.
On Jan 26, 2:59 pm, Doug Jacobs <djac...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
> In alt.video.dvd MassiveProng <MassivePr...@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:40:50 -0000, Doug Jacobs
> > <djac...@shell.rawbw.com> Gave us:
> > >Don't these idiots understand that one of the reasons
> > >DVD was so successful so fast was that there was only ONE format?
> > Yeah. It's called low res & poor audio. Old school.
> > Or that was then, this is now.
> > There's a new kid in town.Technology marches on - this is a good thing. I'm not against the move to
> a HD format.
>
> However, I don't see how making consumers participate in the format war
> between blu-ray and hd-dvd is beneficial. Multiple formats just cause
> confusion and splits the market. DVD - whether you think its specs were
> good or not - presented consumers with a single format. You bought a "DVD
> Player" and it played "DVDs". Simple. No worries about which format to
> choose, buying multiple players or a more expensive combo-player.
>
> Consumers - and I'm talking your average consumer, not the high end early
> adopter types - like things simple.
>
> What's worse is that the only major difference between these is that they're
> backed by different companies. From the simple consumer's point of view,
> both formats play HD movies with surround sound. Differences in terms of
> what codec, compression, or even how many channels of audio (7 vs. 9?)
> just aren't going to make a very noticable difference to most. Instead,
> they'll just buy a combo solution - meaning they aren't making a choice at
> all, and now the silly corporations are stuck supporting their own
> proprietary formats out of pride.
>
> Going back to the difference between DVD-R/+R, wouldn't it have just been
> easier if there had just been 1 burnable DVD format, as their was with
> CD? Remember how fast CD burners dropped in price and suddenly all new CD
> devices supported CDR? There wasn't confusion about what sort of CDR. It
> wasn't like the DVD-R/+R mess where some DVD drives would recognize ONE
> burnable format, but NOT the other.
>
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