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Top Four Reasons Blu-ray Disc Will Tank
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Posted 27 February 2008 - 10:39 AM
Why is it that so many writers and bloggers all jump to the same idiotic conclusions and sprout the same old nonsense??
Firstly, upscaled DVDs will never compare to high def movies. Simply repeating someone else's opinion doesnt count. The resolution is there, or it isn't. You cannot create something out of nothing. Old TV shows look like poop on high def channels, for the same reason. No scaler can do the impossible, let alone one in your cheap DVD player.
Secondly, 30Mbps downloads are still not good enough for blu-ray movies, which can approach 46Mbps. When we are talking about artifact free 1080p/24 movies, with uncompressed 7.1 soundtracks, even your 30Mbps is not going to cut it! And besides, who has 30Mbps? 0.001% of the US population? Downloads will happen, but not for years and years. Not at the quality we demand. And by then, we will have 4K formats and even more special features on the next generation format.
Keep it real.
Firstly, upscaled DVDs will never compare to high def movies. Simply repeating someone else's opinion doesnt count. The resolution is there, or it isn't. You cannot create something out of nothing. Old TV shows look like poop on high def channels, for the same reason. No scaler can do the impossible, let alone one in your cheap DVD player.
Secondly, 30Mbps downloads are still not good enough for blu-ray movies, which can approach 46Mbps. When we are talking about artifact free 1080p/24 movies, with uncompressed 7.1 soundtracks, even your 30Mbps is not going to cut it! And besides, who has 30Mbps? 0.001% of the US population? Downloads will happen, but not for years and years. Not at the quality we demand. And by then, we will have 4K formats and even more special features on the next generation format.
Keep it real.
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Posted 27 February 2008 - 11:37 AM
BluRay won't catch on on the PC as long as Vista is the thing that runs it. Nothing 'High Def' will play until 'secure' drivers are certified by Microsoft, and all digital channels (and display devices) encrypt the data stream. So unless you got a BlueRay VAIO from Sony, your PC probably won't play these very nicely if you install a BluRay drive.
That being said, the momentum is there, and the movie studios want to sell you ANOTHER copy of all of your favorite movies. They're all behind it 100%, so it's unlikely they'll let it 'flop' unless something MUCH better and far more secure pops up very soon to supplant it.
If you started with VHS, moved to Laser Disk, then DVD, you can own your fourth copy of Star Wars. Aren't you proud? Consume! Consume! Consume!
I think the 'problem' with 30M/s doenloads is that since BluRay has already been cracked, the piracy will continue, only in higher definition. It only slows the rate you could download a movie from a 3~8GB file to a 40GB file.
Maybe more people will get a couple of terabyte USB drives and a video playback appliance, then rent movies to rip onto them.
That being said, the momentum is there, and the movie studios want to sell you ANOTHER copy of all of your favorite movies. They're all behind it 100%, so it's unlikely they'll let it 'flop' unless something MUCH better and far more secure pops up very soon to supplant it.
If you started with VHS, moved to Laser Disk, then DVD, you can own your fourth copy of Star Wars. Aren't you proud? Consume! Consume! Consume!
I think the 'problem' with 30M/s doenloads is that since BluRay has already been cracked, the piracy will continue, only in higher definition. It only slows the rate you could download a movie from a 3~8GB file to a 40GB file.
Maybe more people will get a couple of terabyte USB drives and a video playback appliance, then rent movies to rip onto them.
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