Posted by Biz on 12/28/05 18:09

"al" <acickx111@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:43b2c0b0@kcnews01...
> Brian wrote:
>
> > "Biz" <spamoff@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"Brian" <bclark@es.co.nz> wrote in message
> >>news:edlkq19j76mkaj282kbg2m480gm093nk6o@4ax.com...
> >>> A friend of mine won't buy a DVD REcorder until blue Wave DVD players
> >>> come on the market. I feel he will be waiting a while. What do others
> >>> think?
> >>>
> >>> Regards Brian
> >>
> >>How about Blu-Ray? And then your friend will hear about a new
technology
> >>that will be out sometime, and he will decide to wait for that, etc.,
> >>etc.,,,,we are at least 2-3 years b4 you can rent/buy the next
technology
> >>in any usable form like DVD is at today...if your friend wants to sit
> >>around and watch the grass grow, I guess thats his business..
> >>
> >>;)
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks Biz.
> > I was meaning Blue-Ray. I read somewhere that the recorders won't be
> > backward compatible so you won't be able to play DVD discs in a
> > Blue-Ray recorder and it's price tag will be high. With the low cost
> > of blank DVD's and DVD recorders falling in price it may not be in big
> > demand when Blue-Ray arrives. I noticed that the dual layer discs are
> > not popular due to their price.
> >
> > Regards Brian
> That's probably where Blue-Ray comes in : bigger capacity, no need for
dual
> layer, no need for compression mechanism mpeg etc....

BR will use a compressed format as well, prettty much all digital video
mediums use some form of comression...

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