Blu-Ray or HD-DVD

[-0MEGA-] · 07-18-2006, 02:13 AM

The Blu-Ray drives are crazy expensive, but i'm suprised at how cheap the Blu-Ray discs are. I bet HD-DVD will win in the long run.

vonbismarck · 07-18-2006, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by SC7

HD-DVD is slightly cheaper per disc, plus cheaper to make, because old DVD equipment can be used with a little modification. I think Blu-Ray will fail because it's just one company behind it. People don't like one company (sony) trying to dominate, and they've failed before (Betamax, UMD). To me, it just seems like sony won't be able to get themselves the edge. Now, another thing, remember, the better product doesn't always win. Xbox was better than PS2 and GCN technologically, it got 2nd in the US, and 3rd worldwide. Betamax was superior to VHS, and it floped, same with laserdisc. The market looks for the happy medium, such as if HD-DVD is somewhat close to Blu ray, and offers good enough performance, they'll be going after that every last penny in order to get that small cash saving (which does add up).

How is only one company (Sony) behind Blu-Ray? What do you mean exactly by that?

Atsumi · 07-18-2006, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by vonbismarck

How is only one company (Sony) behind Blu-Ray? What do you mean exactly by that?

Sony makes Blu-Ray. Toshiba makes HD-DVD.

vonbismarck · 07-18-2006, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Atsumi

Sony makes Blu-Ray. Toshiba makes HD-DVD.

I still don't follow. Please forgive my slowness. Samsung also makes Blu-Ray as do other companies I believe. And if Toshiba is the only one who makes HD-DVD then that would negate the one argument about Blu-Ray being made by only one company as the same would be true for HD-DVD.

[-0MEGA-] · 07-18-2006, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by vonbismarck

I still don't follow. Please forgive my slowness. Samsung also makes Blu-Ray as do other companies I believe. And if Toshiba is the only one who makes HD-DVD then that would negate the one argument about Blu-Ray being made by only one company as the same would be true for HD-DVD.

Sony created it, but other companies produce the hardware as well.

vonbismarck · 07-18-2006, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by [-0MEGA-]

Sony created it, but other companies produce the hardware as well.

I see. Is this supposed to be a bad thing though? I believe with betamax, Sony was the only one making the units which helped bring about its downfall. But here there are other companies making Blu-Ray too.

I still ask though if it matters anyway if HD-DVD is also only one company (at least for that argument anyway).

BigBrains57 · 07-18-2006, 09:08 AM

when PS3 comes out it will be a more even market out there, the 360 doesnt even have a hddvd player in it as of now

Bunty · 07-18-2006, 12:51 PM

You can use any of them. Because, if you want to play them on your PC, they won't be very expensive. You can easily play HD-DVD on your DVD-ROM because it uses MPEG 2 compression. I don't know Bly-ray discs what use!

Atsumi · 07-18-2006, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by BigBrains57

when PS3 comes out it will be a more even market out there, the 360 doesnt even have a hddvd player in it as of now

360 gets an external HD-DVD player.

SC7 · 07-18-2006, 04:24 PM

^^ But they won't use that for games, because original customers (like me) would be pissed as hell if we had to go about buying a new extention to play games. As for Sony being a bad thing, it looks more like this, Sony has a mass name behind it, and is really in total control of what's going on with it. It's going in PS3, and people may get bad "vibes" so to speak, coming from Sony. Many companies are behind both products, just one invented each. Sorry for the confusion, plus, with idiot consumers, a lot may just by HD-DVD, because they'll think, oh, It's dvd, AND ITS HD!!

Anyway @bunty, you cannot play a DVD in your DVD-ROM drive, they took the picture of wikipedia, but it is a much smaller finer lens, and it is also in blue color, making drive speeds different two, so the whole drive needs to be revamped.

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Bunty New Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 11	You can use any of them. Because, if you want to play them on your PC, they won't be very expensive. You can easily play HD-DVD on your DVD-ROM because it uses MPEG 2 compression. I don't know Bly-ray discs what use!