Blu-Ray Is Dead

mad.dog_7

It would seem that the !!!!!! industry is backing HD-DVD due to cost issues,so you can kiss goodbye to using your nice expensive Sony Playstation 3 as a HD DVD player

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/

I think Sony deserve all that is coming to them at the moment with the way they have been treating their customers at the moment.

j_davies

mad.dog wrote:

I think Sony deserve all that is coming to them at the moment with the way they have been treating their customers at the moment.

Yes indeed I hope they realise that delaying products bad build quality and price hikes really do have a backlash I would like to see them fold.

superscaper

I think hybrid drives will end up being the norm as in the supposed format wars of dvd +/-/RAM. Hybrid HD-DVD/Blu Ray disks are already being developed. The PS3 is actually very cheap for what you get and is perfectly comparable costwise to the HD DVD players. The REAL costs don't come into it as both the PS3 and Toshiba HD DVD player are heavily subsidised with both manufacturers making a subsantial loss on every unit.

Crabman

I agree with the point about Sony's Customer Service - they clearly don't care about customer satisfaction and I hope their blu-ray goes down the pan. Hate them

espresso

mad.dog wrote:

I think Sony deserve all that is coming to them at the moment with the way they have been treating their customers at the moment.

Agreed, Sony have been trading on their name for years now! They always have to do it their way - remember Betamax?

:rotfl:

superscaper

espresso wrote:

Agreed, Sony have been trading on their name for years now! They always have to do it their way - remember Betamax?

:rotfl:

Betamax, perfect example of it having nothing to do with how good the technology is (Blu Ray is superior technologically). I seem to remember that seeing something that what really won it for VHS was the adoption of the !!!!!! industry so maybe history really is repeating itself.

Alex_Galt

Betamax was superior to VHS too wasn't it?

DKLS

Superscaper, is bang on the money, by adopting cheap VHS the !!!!!! industry exploded.The !!!!!! industry is responsible for a whole lot of technical innovations, especially on the web, they have the development funds to develop technology and are leaders in web development. So bye bye Blu-Ray

superscaper

Alex_Galt wrote:

Betamax was superior to VHS too wasn't it?

Yep, that's what I was getting at. Could be blu-ray ends up being the betamax of this format war.

j_davies

Alex_Galt wrote:

Betamax was superior to VHS too wasn't it?

Yes it was, still is as some film studios still use betamax a lot was down to the marketing if the betamax format was better promoted we would all be using betamax tapes and recorders, also down to sonys arrogant ways and they lost out big time.


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Idiophreak

!!!!!! were also the first to really pick up DVD and run with it - a lot of the stuff the porno's did with multi-angles in early DVDs still aren't being sorted out by everyone else...