Posted by tootal2@sbcglobal.net on 01/06/08 16:16

T.B. 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.
>
> T.B.
if you made blu-ray dvds from tivo hd or hd files from the internet you
would hate blu-ray. Blu-rays take hours and hours to convert a 1080p
mpeg 2 file to AVCHD. With hd-dvd i can just use the 1080p mpeg 2 file.

Btw i already made 7 1 hour hd-dvd on dl dvd+r this weekend. It would
take you all day to make 1 blu-ray dvd.

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