Is anyone else annoyed by all the movie companies going exclusively Blu-Ray?!
Question: I mean why can't they just put the movies on both formats. Or make a disc that will play in both players. The least they could do is make a Blu-Ray player that is affordable.
Answers: I mean why can't they just put the movies on both formats. Or make a disc that will play in both players. The least they could do is make a Blu-Ray player that is affordable.
It pisses me off because I still don't even know what blu-ray is or does!
Yeah considering the cheaper way to go is to buy a ps3.. at $399 which I think is outrageous... Not only that but if you want just a blu ray and dvd that's $599. To crazy for me and I love the new gear.
annoyed, yes. what happened to the good old VHS?
You're too young to know the Beta - VHS format war.
Before that there was the 4 channel stereo format war.
VHS won, the movie industry backed one format..
4 channel stereo died, no one backed one format.
Some one needed to win the HDTV war and SOON. Warner just picked Blu Ray -- oh well. 70% rules...
Now that it's down to one format watch those prices fall as other manufacturers, who were waiting (impatiently I might add) for a winner before they committed their resources, starts manufacturing them.
Not me. Having multiple formats can confuse the average consumer. And Blu-ray players will be coming down in price as they become less expensive to make. DVD players were also very expensive when they came out.
Blu-ray and HD-DVD will go the way of the BETAMAX, and the laser-disc. It's gonna die it's own death, because the egotistical giants cant agree on a unified format, and want people to shell out dough just so that they can select scenes from within a playback session - ridiculous!
Long live regular DVD!
"Make a disc that plays in both players" not sure about that considering the tech behind aren't really the same, they do different things which is the whole point otherwise the whole endeavour would be pointless. Blu Ray can do things that HD-DVD can't and vice versa.
To be honest rather than seeing them as two different formats for content, companies and consumers seem to be seeing only one, as in rather than having both formats functioning there can only be one. if blu ray wins that everyone adopts the format and studios will profit from it but if there are two formats then people will be indecisive (considering they don't want to pick the wrong one otherwise the player will be redundant in the long term). if every1 chooses blu-ray, which looks to be the case, the Blu Ray players will go down in price as more people adopt it. right now blu-ray is about recouping the costs of its development