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One of the big reasoins to like HD-DVD over Blu-Ray is the “skinning” feature that they have in HD-DVD. This is a little talked about feature that allows you to put your own face on any of the characters in a movie and watch yourself in it! Very cool.
Of course, it has to be enabled in th DVD itself, but it is supposedly very cool.
As far as gaming goes, Bing, I’m a PC (Mac) guy. The sate of gaming is awful these days. All games are essentially the same. Every FPS that comes out looks ust like every other FPS and the same can be said for RTS and whatever other game types you have.
I pretty much only play WOW on the Mac. The XBox is primarily for the kids…
One of the big reasoins to like HD-DVD over Blu-Ray is the “skinning” feature that they have in HD-DVD. This is a little talked about feature that allows you to put your own face on any of the characters in a movie and watch yourself in it! Very cool.
Of course, it has to be enabled in th DVD itself, but it is supposedly very cool.
As far as gaming goes, Bing, I’m a PC (Mac) guy. The sate of gaming is awful these days. All games are essentially the same. Every FPS that comes out looks ust like every other FPS and the same can be said for RTS and whatever other game types you have.
I pretty much only play WOW on the Mac. The XBox is primarily for the kids…
Bryan gets a big A-M-E-N for his DRM speech! But you mention that companies will want us to buy a copy of the content for each device….You must have missed something because this is happening now. Fair use is a concept that seems to have been lost on all these people as well as our legislators, since the DMCA made is largely a moot point. Apparently, the industry is completely ignoring history and the fact that when cassette recorders came out, they cried foul and told everyone that the world would end and no one would ever buy another album…Same thing with the VCR….Hmmm…Seems like we have a couple of precedents here…
As for the technology side, it’s not even as simple as just having an HDMI connector on the TV. I have a 3 year old 42″ plasma that is capable of 720p and has an HDMI connector, but I KNOW that it does not support HDCP, which is required for the disk-to-eyeball encryption that the MPAA requires for the new hi-def standards.
Rob, do you really thingk there are 2,000,000 PS3’s in homes right now? I think that number is largely inflated. Sony has a big problem on their hands with that one as supply is vastly outstripping demand on that particular item. You’re right, the specs are useless to the argument and while Blu-Ray does look superior on paper, you can’t argue with the $200 add-on HD-DVD drive for the XBox 360. now that’s a price point people can live with.
I’ve completely forgotten what my point was, but this sure is a fun discussion…:-)
Bryan gets a big A-M-E-N for his DRM speech! But you mention that companies will want us to buy a copy of the content for each device….You must have missed something because this is happening now. Fair use is a concept that seems to have been lost on all these people as well as our legislators, since the DMCA made is largely a moot point. Apparently, the industry is completely ignoring history and the fact that when cassette recorders came out, they cried foul and told everyone that the world would end and no one would ever buy another album…Same thing with the VCR….Hmmm…Seems like we have a couple of precedents here…
As for the technology side, it’s not even as simple as just having an HDMI connector on the TV. I have a 3 year old 42″ plasma that is capable of 720p and has an HDMI connector, but I KNOW that it does not support HDCP, which is required for the disk-to-eyeball encryption that the MPAA requires for the new hi-def standards.
Rob, do you really thingk there are 2,000,000 PS3’s in homes right now? I think that number is largely inflated. Sony has a big problem on their hands with that one as supply is vastly outstripping demand on that particular item. You’re right, the specs are useless to the argument and while Blu-Ray does look superior on paper, you can’t argue with the $200 add-on HD-DVD drive for the XBox 360. now that’s a price point people can live with.
I’ve completely forgotten what my point was, but this sure is a fun discussion…:-)
That was actually a well written article. it’s nice to see a reporter that “gets it.” Most seem to write articles with half-baked ideas and complete non-truths about podcasting and tech in general.
That was actually a well written article. it’s nice to see a reporter that “gets it.” Most seem to write articles with half-baked ideas and complete non-truths about podcasting and tech in general.
Pent-up sexual frustration is never a good thing. Sounds like the basketball coach spends a little too much time coaching…
Was she at least hot?
Pent-up sexual frustration is never a good thing. Sounds like the basketball coach spends a little too much time coaching…
Was she at least hot?
Something interesting that I was thinking about while listening to ads on the radio in the shower this morning: Video stores are not advertising this hot new consumer technology (Hi-Def DVDs). Until and unless a few things happen here, the whole industry is doomed to failure.
1) The whole process is too complicated. This is largely predicated by the MPAA who insist on DRM all the way to eh eyeball of the user. There is still too much confusion about compatibility: Is my TV compatible with my hot new DVD player? Will I be getting the best picture? Will I notice the difference?
2) Prices are still too high. Of course this is to be expected as the whole thing is still in its infancy and prices are bound to come down, but come on: $1,000 for a dvd player? Please.
3) I just don’t think people care all that much. I mean, I love movies as much as the next guy, but I’m still jizzing over my HD TV and how good normal DVDs look on it compared to my old clunker. Can HD-DVD or Blu-Ray be all that much different?
Remember when HD TVs first started coming out; sure, they were expensive, but they were a must-have item and everybody talked about them. Stores were always advertising the latest deals and the industry took off. This whole hi-def DVD thing just seems like a non-starter so far…
I guess we’ll have to wait and see how things shake out, but right now, I see the whole sub-system headed for archival data storage on computers and not much else…
Something interesting that I was thinking about while listening to ads on the radio in the shower this morning: Video stores are not advertising this hot new consumer technology (Hi-Def DVDs). Until and unless a few things happen here, the whole industry is doomed to failure.
1) The whole process is too complicated. This is largely predicated by the MPAA who insist on DRM all the way to eh eyeball of the user. There is still too much confusion about compatibility: Is my TV compatible with my hot new DVD player? Will I be getting the best picture? Will I notice the difference?
2) Prices are still too high. Of course this is to be expected as the whole thing is still in its infancy and prices are bound to come down, but come on: $1,000 for a dvd player? Please.
3) I just don’t think people care all that much. I mean, I love movies as much as the next guy, but I’m still jizzing over my HD TV and how good normal DVDs look on it compared to my old clunker. Can HD-DVD or Blu-Ray be all that much different?
Remember when HD TVs first started coming out; sure, they were expensive, but they were a must-have item and everybody talked about them. Stores were always advertising the latest deals and the industry took off. This whole hi-def DVD thing just seems like a non-starter so far…
I guess we’ll have to wait and see how things shake out, but right now, I see the whole sub-system headed for archival data storage on computers and not much else…
I agree that Blu-Ray is the better spec, but come on…It’s Sony…:-)
Didn’t I hear recently that one of the big movie companies recently pulled out of the Blu-Ray camp?
I’m afraid that if Blu-Ray wins the war, Sony will turn it into an even more proprietary thing than it already is and clamp down so many controls on the thing that it will be useless for anything but watching movies. Personally, I think the biggest market for the next-gen DVD format will be in computers and data storage applications.
I think you’re going to find that Sony has another Betamax on their hands with Blu-Ray. HD-DVD is the clear, early winner and now they’ve even upped the ante with a tripple layer disk that holds more than the Blue-Ray disk. You may see Blu-Ray get relegated to computers for use as data storage devices and nothing more, but I think you’ll see Sony botch this one like they have with virtually everything else they put their hands on these days…
