Bluray-am I the only one one to be disappointed ?

Marty_J

timmmers wrote: »

When better tellies arrive Blueray will probably be obsolete ...that's the irony.

Why would better TVs make Blu-ray obsolete?

As you yourself point out, Blu-ray is just a way of storing data.

Are there going to be TVs incompatible with binary?

Even more ironic is my old mate who is a real audio nut...he's been having a ball buying vynl discs for a while now...as he says rightly....in 20 years time they will still be playing and good quality, your CDs and DVDs will be dead as they have a finite life being light sensitive and exposure to light damaging them over time.

Sure, as long as he never plays them and they're stored in an appropriate environment, they'll sound just fine. I guess he can take them out and look at them every so often. Just make sure he cleans any dust off them before putting them back.

I have 15 year old CDs that have been dropped, scratched, left in a freezing car, left on a sunny windowsill, left to rattle around on the bottom of a drawer for months, and trodden on; in short, the kind of treatment that would destroy a record. Yet, they still sound exactly the same as they did the day I purchased them.

And pressed CDs and DVDs (i.e. the kind you buy with an album or movie on them) aren't made with light-senstive dyes.

456789

Marty_J wrote: »

Are there going to be TVs incompatible with binary?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oneday77

Bluray will bring out the best of a TV or show up it's short commings. No more no less. There is a distance calculator somewhere but I seem to remember 8ft(2.5m) viewing distances should involve a 50" TV to appreciate the increased quality.

Steve-o

spiritus wrote: »

I have also discovered that Bluray movies are not all created equally meaning that some Blurays have been converted to the format superbly (like Dark Knight) whilst others are virtually indistinguishable from a DVD.

The same thing happened when DVDs first came out: some were superb, and a lot were so badly done that VHS tapes were better quality.

jaydeeuk1

Steve-o wrote: »

The same thing happened when DVDs first came out: some were superb, and a lot were so badly done that VHS tapes were better quality.

And today, some DVD transfers are made deliberately poor in order to make people purchase the blu ray version. The last indiana jones film for example.

M4RKM

I've had my ps3 on the tv downstairs (32" 720p, sorry 1080i), and it ain't a patch on a 40" 1080p I have upstairs when watching blu ray..

the dark knight is a great example of a good film, and it does look amazing IMO.

the tv isn't right for the media you are watching, which is pretty much what other people have said... 40" is a bear minimum when using 1080p and bluray... again, just my opinion

john_s_2

Marty_J wrote: »

Why would better TVs make Blu-ray obsolete?

As you yourself point out, Blu-ray is just a way of storing data.

My guess would be that the better TVs would require an amount of data to show a two hour film that simply couldn't fit on a bluray disk. But of course there'll be some other storage medium and player able to handle it.

I for one have been underwhelmed with HD when I look at the tellies in the shops, supposedly showing footage that shows them off to their best.

M4RKM

I've yet to see a tv set up with a HDMI source, showing something at 1080p, which would actually show them off..

normally, you've got one source, 720p, and component, which will show something ok, but definitely not to their best...

timmmers

john_s wrote: »

My guess would be that the better TVs would require an amount of data to show a two hour film that simply couldn't fit on a bluray disk. But of course there'll be some other storage medium and player able to handle it.

I for one have been underwhelmed with HD when I look at the tellies in the shops, supposedly showing footage that shows them off to their best.

Actually it's a lot simpler than that, although that's inevitable too.

There are drives the size of postage stamps in development that can store everything you ever saw on TV or movie, and all the music that you ever heard. HUGE amounts of information in a drive a few inches across ...they move the drive laser and not the storage medium (which is why they have yet to produce a commercial version...it's not reliable yet). Once those are integrated into your telly...what would you need any removable media for?

The reason these tiny high capacity drives are so interesting and likely to become common is that once they crack it, they will fit just about anything...like the mobile devices that already come equipped with projectors to display movies onto large surfaces. Economy of scale will be fantastic for such a component. Cheap as chips.

We all used to have little black books with phone numbers, we all used to have a big address book at home full of names and numbers...now we just store it all on our mobiles as the norm. We move it from phone to phone...ckick and it's done.

The only truly impressive Telly I have seen recently was an OLED at a trade show...paper thin and clear as a bell in any light condition....with promises of flexible screens to come apparently which opens up great ways to use them in a home at huge size without the telly being the biggest thing in the room. They are on sale now in Korea and other places but too expensive to produce yet sadly.

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Avoriaz

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

And today, some DVD transfers are made deliberately poor in order to make people purchase the blu ray version. The last indiana jones film for example.

Do you have anything to support that claim?

It sounds like a good way to p1ss off your distributors and customers etc, not generate sales.