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hayabusa3303
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| death of DVD?
THe death of it has been going on for sometime now. With HD-DVD and Blu-ray i dont think it will matter. With prices $600 or more for players and 1000 for recorders i dont see it happening in the near future.
With HD-DVD and blu-ray it will take alot of bandwidth just to download one movie at what 25gigs. vs what 5 dvd's to the same room. Even if you had 100mbps speed. | |
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| said by hayabusa3303  :THe death of it has been going on for sometime now. With HD-DVD and Blu-ray i dont think it will matter. With prices $600 or more for players and 1000 for recorders i dont see it happening in the near future. With HD-DVD and blu-ray it will take alot of bandwidth just to download one movie at what 25gigs. vs what 5 dvd's to the same room. Even if you had 100mbps speed. i get tired of hearing about the price of the player and disc it's so typical they are high just look at anything in the past when it first came out. VCR, mobile phones, cars, etc | |
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| Which is exactly the rub.
"I don't know what's so "less appealing" about the physical media. I can make backups, take DVDs to friend's houses (who may not have broadband, or a computer at all), and I like the extras that sometimes come with DVDs, like posters, or figurines, etc."
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"After I see a movie, I RARELY wish to watch it again."
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"Price for Blue-Ray drives and media will need to drop drastically before it really takes off. But then again, DRM is the killer."
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There are too many uses for CD media of all types and it is not likely to go bye, bye any time soon. Especially when one can record his own.
Price has allways been the deciding factor. Especially when you observe that in many cases, the success of something depends on how well the bleeding edge freeks are willing to shell out their cash.
"Blu ray", etc, is just the newest step in the same tired marketing game that the computer and peripheral makers have been using since the beginning: More capacity, more speed, or, ideally, both.
Dont get me wrong: In most cases this is a good thing because we end up getting more for less, but only if we wait to buy till the upgrade freek/corporate market has forced the prices down to a more reasonable range. IF, of course they even do.
Well, with CD media, speed is out because of proven physical constraints and that leaves only more capacity, just like with the hard drives today. Packing more on a drive/CD is the only way they can keep prices up and sooner or later they will run into physical restraints, just as Inttel and AMD seem to have done with CPU speed vs heat, etc.
Besides, if streaming ever does get a good foothold, what makes anyone think the people who rip and record today wont tomorrow? CD medis IS, after all, the best way to store media and data.
I dont know why everyone insists on comparing the U S to south Korea. It's stupid and meaningless, just because of sheer size alone, let alone anything else, like individual cultures. | |
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1 edit | said by Fatal Vector :
I don't know why everyone insists on comparing the U S to south Korea. It's stupid and meaningless, just because of sheer size alone, let alone anything else, like individual cultures.
This is true when comparing how people do things in different countries. What we think what people do in another country is wierd, those people think is normal and part of everyday life. I bet some South Koreans think we are wierd for some of things we do in the U.S.
My point in comparing the U.S. to South Korea is, they invested early in broadband and the U.S. is taking it's ol sweet time. It would be more like how Europe had 150mph trains for years and the U.S is just catching up. | |
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The bigger problem as I see it for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is that standard DVD is good enough for most people. Unless you have a 100" projection screen, DVD offers reasonably decent quality video.
I do definitely see the clarity difference between HD video and DVD video, don't get me wrong. But on my "lowly" 50" plasma, It's just not enough to make me really excited about the format where I'd want to go spend gobs of money on yet another new format.
Mind you I was a very early adopter of DVD video. I love my HT system. I spend hours on AVS forum learning how to tweak my system. If I'm not excited about blu-ray/HD-DVD then the format is probably screwed. Its ONLY hope is getting integrated into video game systems or HTPC (home theater computer) systems where people receive the capability to play those discs incidentally.
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