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Availability of blue ray
BillieTheBot
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Our Stafford HMV have recently opened a blue ray department. Amazon's got it as well. Are the tables starting to turn in the format war or is the latter still hanging outside of consumer range?
I think that drives for the computer are still in the £100-£200 range. Not sure about the price of videos (films) yet. Has anyone here jumped onto the bandwagon?
I think that drives for the computer are still in the £100-£200 range. Not sure about the price of videos (films) yet. Has anyone here jumped onto the bandwagon?
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It's the new high definition film format from Sony. Holds much more data than a normal movie DVD.
For video, there was VHS, DVD and now blue ray.
There were other formats around too like super-8, betamax and minidisc, but those 6 listed above are the main 6.
So it just means that it is better quality to watch than a normal DVD?
Yes, if you have the TV that can show off the extra detail on the disc.
What would tempt you more - being able to get an entire series of the Wire, Deadwood, House, West Wing, or whatever on one disc for £15 or... seriously you could probably get 15 of the best film-noir's on one disc and no amount of hi-def processing would mak them look better, just keep them in DVD quality and release them as a bargain pack.
Being able to get A Knights Tale or Universal Soldier for £20.
I think Sony and the rest need to decide if they want to create a new format that will really suceed or just try and get everything last penny from uninteresting middle of the road movies in their back catalogue.
Truth is the market is being run like it's UMD again - a format sold to a minority market (computer gaming early adoptors) and it's killing any chance of diversity or genuine innovation. And that innovation will come through proper online distribution instead - killing the market in the end.
And for data, as Jim says, I think people will use HD's instead of a medium susceptible to scratches.