Is Blu- Ray,the Beta-Max of the Future ? and why is blu-ray so bloody expensive
and why is blu-ray so bloody expensive , is it that good
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In February, the HD-DVD and BlueRay DVD battle be officially over.
HD-DVD is your Beta-max of the adjectives, as BlueRay won. ;)
All current technologies will eventually be eclipse in the close by future.
If it is the most recent and greatest...(& in Demand)...
It is expensive...'til the subsequent great thing
to come down the column makes its appearance...
after it will be (discounted) as yesterdays news!
If you don't know...you are perceptibly out of touch...
got to Circuit City, or Best Buy....
and smell the sony! or
Hurry Up and Wait!
Tshnob says that upconverted DVD is as perfect as BD.
NOPE!
The difference is tremendous. The native figure is far sharper and has better color. BD also have much better audio.
The question is whether that matter to you.
Apparantly it doesn't matter to Tshnob or his equipment doesn't support adjectives of the advantages of BD.
This is a question of Worth vs. Value. Worth is determined by what someone is liable to pay. The worth of gold ingots is very high-ranking because someone is willing to income it. The same with stocks and surrounded by this case Blu-Ray.
It's plus is more personal. Will you get personal elation equal to what you spend on it? Does it enrich your life to that amount? Does it matter to you?
It you enjoy a 27" TV and want to watch movies presently and aren't going to upgrade your TV and if you don't have a surround nouns system then Blu-Ray won't thing to you. It has no increased pro to you over DVD.
If however you have a 50" plasma and a surround nouns system and want to buy a movie player that you will keep for a long time later Blu-Ray will be of great value to you.
Expect continued transition to BD to verbs and Blu-Ray is expected to be the prefered medium after around 1 1/2 to 2 years. The period of war Is over. Blu-Ray is VHS if HD-DVD were Betamax.
The motivation this was big was because plentiful consider this the last true concrete format war. With plentiful claiming that digital distribution will replace it in the in the neighbourhood future.
The source why Blu-Ray is more expensive was because it is a completely fresh process for manufacturing to be capable of produce the disks readable by the blue laser. The prices were consistently going down during the format time of war. But now that its over they appear to be rising again.
In any case, the PS3 is the most future-proof device since it have network connectivity and a hard-drive that are vital for BD+ playback. (Right now I believe it is the solitary player that can do it).
And to asnwer your 'is it that good?' grill... I love my Blu-Ray player. I also have a 1080p tv and a 7.1 nouns system so anything that can take assistance of those two things I love (looks at his PS3 and hugs it). If you are willing to put a serious investment into your home entertainment system and you close to owning discs then, yes, it is that accurate.
If you are more than happy beside DVD, I would wait a few years while the technology cools down and prices come down to average.
I'm not so sure of that. Blu-Ray won the time of war against HD-DVD. If anything, I'd say that Blu-Ray is the VHS of today since VHS won the period of war in VHS vs Beta-max.
No, HD DVD was the Beta-Max...Blu-ray is the VHS of the 'now'.
Just similar to minidisk & DAT tapes be a basic disappointment and MP3 players won.
To answer the second part of your grill first. Blu-ray is a new technology and have dropped faster in price than DVD after its first 2 years on the open market. Blu-ray has the qualifications to produce a picture better than broadcasted HD. Yes, it is THAT good.
Is Blu-ray the subsequent Beta-max? No one knows that answer. The consumer bazaar is finicky. Betamax provided higher standard video than VHS, yet VHS prevailed. HD-DVD lost the format time of war with Blu-ray, even though HD-DVD offered equal picture quality for lower prices. HD-DVD's dimise isn't a guarantee that Blu-ray will succeed within the marketplace. Before Mp3, near was a format period of war for the next digital portable medium. You had Mini-Disc, DCC cassette, and DAT. None of those formats took off. Here is another example. In Audio you have DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, two music formats next to higher resolution than compact disc, yet neither format took bad. Competing with Blu-ray are Video On Demand services similar to Vudu, AppleTv, Xbox Live Video Marketplace, and Cable TV's On-Demand service. Although Blu-ray offers a high quality picture, things close to price or convenience could play a larger role in what consumers resolve is the next step within video playback.
Bluray is today. DVD is yesterday.
You decide if it's worth it...
Video:
DVD - 300,000 pixels maximimum resolution, even upscaled
Bluray - 2,000,000 pixels is standard, beside better color depth too
Audio:
DVD - compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 and compressed DTS
Bluray - uncompressed (flac quality and beyond!) Dolby True HD and HDDTS, both up to 7.1
Additional features:
Bluray - latest models coming in May will connect to the Internet for a true interactive experience
There is no competing technology on the horizon to outstrip Bluray. Downloading will become more popular but to contest Bluray, you will need to download over 20gig to keep under surveillance one 2 hour movie.
We should see product in the $299 span starting in May. (I instinctively don't think that's too much of a premium to foot for a dramatically better picture and amazing sound!)
No - it's not worth $5 to $10 more per dvd. It's probably worth it to get hold of something that upconverts to HD because that is worth it - but upconverted dvd really is as honourable as BRD, not to mention the availability of titles, player software updates, and region code restriction problems.
I suggest you meant HD-DVD! Blu-Ray is the adjectives