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Posted by Bill's News on 01/07/08 01:51
"ChairmanOfTheBored" <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote in message
news:e332o31dtbekn1vgo637bhgdr9jj7886l2@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:58:22 -0800, "T.B."
> <Partyslammer@socal.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"willbill" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Blu-Ray was winning the HD format war in North America and
>>>> Asia,
>>>> but not Europe, until the Dreamworks/Paramount buyout.
>>>
>>>
>>> up front, i'm in the USA and recently
>>> bought a 3rd gen Toshiba A35 player
>>>
>>> what on earth is Warner thinking of?
>>>
>>> i mean, how on earth is this Warner
>>> decision going to reduce BD standalone
>>> player prices in the USA?
>>>
>>> as far as i can tell, it won't
>>>
>>> Warner has just shot themselves
>>> in the foot
>>>
>>> i wonder how Europe will take this?
>>
>>Good Lord, get a grip.
>>
>>Warner Bros made the right move. At least they didn't pull a
>>Paramount and
>>stop releasing titles the week they made the announcement.
>>
>>If this stalemate continued into '09 or beyond, it would have
>>likely
>>consigned both formats to the dustbin of other failed
>>competing formats like
>>DVD audio and SACDs. As it stands, it already may be too late
>>but at least
>>with the possibility of only one HD disc format by the end of
>>this year, HD
>>via blu-ray has a chance of gaining a decent hold on the home
>>video
>>marketplace in a couple years.
>>
>>And really, the same misguided hair-pulling was made at the
>>end of the 90's
>>by laserdisc fans when dvds first hit the consumer
>>marketplace. Software and
>>especially hardware prices eventually dropped, just about
>>every obscure
>>movie imaginable has been released on dvd (some, half a dozen
>>times or more)
>>and the media quickly outgrew the initially crummy transfers
>>that dogged
>>many releases the first few years of the media's existence.
>>
>>And really, blu-ray is technically a better format than
>>hd-dvd.
>>
>
> The ONLY thing about BluRay that I have found to be
> "technically
> superior" is the hard coat finish on the discs. THAT is the
> single most
> important thing in optical disc technology I have seen come
> along in
> years.
Possibly NetFlix thought so too? Of the few discs I've borrowed
from NetFlix of both formats, I'd say that HD-DVD borrowers are
more respectful of the media and that Blu-Ray's hard coat
doesn't pass the real world test! Even then, these relatively
young releases of older flicks were significantly less scratched
than their DVD counterparts.
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