Blu-Ray Is Dead

j_davies

movieman wrote:

I don't see any point in continuing this thread.

Thank god for that :wave:

donny-gal

Hang on here, I had a Betamax (showing my age now) and cannot remember a 1 hour limit, in fact have a couple of movies > an hour which I transferred to VHS when I had to give in and move over!

I'm_With_Stupid

Blue-ray is dead because the !!!!!! industry isn't supporting it? Sorry, this isn't the 80's. The !!!!!! industry is dying, because it's quite clear that people don't care about picture quality when it comes to !!!!!!. Who's going to pay for high definition !!!!!!, when they can get an infinite number of !!!!!! videos for free, without having to set foot in a store or risk it appearing on their bank statement? The internet has already all but destroyed !!!!!! in video and DVD form, so I can't see it having any sway in the battle at all tbh.

If anything, downloads will mean that both formats fail. I mean look at DVD-A vs. SACD. Which one won? Well none, because people preferred the convenience of downloading MP3's over paying a fortune for another barely noticable difference in quality. I reckon a good download service (which I think is still a good few MB/sec away for the average home) will eventually wipe the floor with both formats.

marleyboy

movieman wrote:

Of what?

Let me repeat what I said, and leave you to read your own Wikipedia page which supports exactly what I said: "There are many good reasons why Betamax failed, it's not the usual urban legend of 'better format, worse marketing'."

Otherwise, since you don't seem to be able to explain what you're talking about, I don't see any point in continuing this thread.

Rather than contradicting yourself in your argument would it not be far more logical to say what exactly are the good reasons that you know of, for the demise and failure of Betamax if not the URBAN LEGEND. As other than qouting that Betamax failed. Nobody here actually knows WHAT it is that supports what you said!

BillScarab

VHS and Betamax will never last, the future is V2000!!!

superscaper

There will always be something else around the corner. I remember talking about blue laser based optical discs, ie blu ray/hd dvd, over EIGHT years ago in my cambridge interview (I was trying to impress them with my cutting edge engineering knowledge, it didn't work). There's always lots of technologies being worked on now that just simply need time for standardising and production.