Will people shutup about Sony and BluRay

[13Gigatons]

Who developed Blu-ray?


The Blu-ray Disc format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies with more than 120 members from all over the world. The Board of Directors currently consists of:

Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures

BluRay is not beta or the mindisc, it's a superior disc format that has a long life ahead of it. It has more capacity and faster write time.

 

[ironcrotch]

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[MaverickBP]

thanks for another meaningless thread :thumbsup:

 

[dighn]

you brought it up :| take your own advice

 

[So]

Originally posted by: dighn
you brought it up :| take your own advice

Don't you know. We're supposed to be swayed by the OBVIOUS superiority of the format and stop disagreeing with his opinion.

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
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WTF

 

[Zim Hosein]

Sony and BluRay > 13Gigatons

 

[Patt]

bleh

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: dighn
you brought it up :| take your own advice

Don't you know. We're supposed to be swayed by the OBVIOUS superiority of the format and stop disagreeing with his opinion.

Nope just the stupid arguement that bluray will fail like beta or the minidisc.

BETA:

It failed because Sony played hardball with licenses and the other Japanese companies got together and buried them with VHS. Sony learned it's lesson.

Minidisc:

After the CD hit people just weren't swayed to buy yet another disc that held less infomation and had inferior sound quality to what they were already using. The CD was just to widespread by then.


BluRay:

Bluray however is supported by a bunch of companies who all had a hand in the development process and will all be able to produce products based on it. There is no 54 gig High Definition disc currently on the market and with the advent of HDTV the demand will be pretty strong plus all those 300 gig hard drives that need to be backed up.

The only question that remains is how cheap will HD-DVD be ?


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[dugweb]

 

[nakedfrog]

I'll bet they won't shut up about it.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: dighn
you brought it up :| take your own advice

Don't you know. We're supposed to be swayed by the OBVIOUS superiority of the format and stop disagreeing with his opinion.

Nope just the stupid arguement that bluray will fail like beta or the minidisc.

BETA:

It failed because Sony played hardball with licenses and the other Japanese companies got together and buried them with VHS. Sony learned it's lesson.

Minidisc:

After the CD hit people just weren't swayed to buy yet another disc that held less infomation and had inferior sound quality to what they were already using. The CD was just to widespread by then.


BluRay:

Bluray however is supported by a bunch of companies who all had a hand in the development process and will all be able to produce products based on it. There is no 54 gig High Definition disc currently on the market and with the advent of HDTV the demand will be pretty strong plus all those 300 gig hard drives that need to be backed up.

The only question that remains is how cheap will HD-DVD be ?


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Well, considering that NEITHER standard exists anymore and both groups agrees to join together and form a new standards group WEEKS ago, maybe you can drops the Blu-Ray zealotry?

Plus, Blu-Ray is a retarted name.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: So
Well, considering that NEITHER standard exists anymore and both groups agrees to join together and form a new standards group WEEKS ago, maybe you can drops the Blu-Ray zealotry?

Plus, Blu-Ray is a retarted name.

No, they didn't. They are still two very different standards and will, in all liklihood, go to market competing with each other.

 

[BooGiMaN]

are you talking about the commercial type used for backup thats been out for a year or so or the promised up and coming consumer version?

 

[So]

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/600/600481p1.html

http://www.techlore.com/article/11228/

apparrently, you're probably right. I guess I was out of date

Blu-Ray is still a retarted name.

 

[Mo0o]

Didn't they decide to join up so this is a moot point?

 

[her209]

BluRay is weak. HVD is where its at, baby!

 

[FoBoT]

but sony is on your list, so it must be sony's fault

 

[Rock Hydra]

I hope BluRay is more popular than HD-DVD

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Didn't they decide to join up so this is a moot point?

Read a few posts up and click on those links.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
BluRay is not beta or the mindisc, it's a superior disc format that has a long life ahead of it. It has more capacity and faster write time.

You act as if any of that matters in the marketplace.

SACD and DVD-Audio offer better sound than CD (along with obnoxious copy protection, just like Blu-Ray will have). Both competing audio formats are close to dying as consumers ignore them completely in favor of regular CDs.

Blue-ray and HD-DVD currently are on track to repeat the "success" of SACD and DVDA, by presenting consumers with a format war when many of them find regular DVDs perfectly acceptable.

Sony is set to betamax itself again, but so is the HD-DVD camp.