Apple to choose blu-ray over hddvd

[Zoolook]

x2!! HD-DVD is where it's at......every point he made here is completely true...PS3 sales are also hideously low, lets not forget the millions who have a 360 that can get the HD-DVD attachment for $170 like I did....

Well 6 million PS3's is hardly "hiddeously low" especially if you're comparing Blu-Ray players to HD-DVD players, since there have only been 200,000 HD-DVD add-ons sold for Xbox360.

Just got done reading that article and all i can say is WOW. I wonder how much sony payed them off, toshiba is not innocent of paying off studios either.

No one bought off Time Warner, they were on the Blu-Ray board from the start. Toshiba and Microsoft paid Paramount $150 million to drop Blu-Ray though.

 

[schweb]

No one bought off Time Warner, they were on the Blu-Ray board from the start. Toshiba and Microsoft paid Paramount $150 million to drop Blu-Ray though.

And now Paramount will looks stupid if they don't also jump to Blu-ray.

BTW, wasn't paramount one of the only studios supporting that completely stupid DiVX vs DVD "rent not own" fiasco backed by Circuit City. Paramount doesn't have a great track record of choosing the right side in technology battles.

 

[MacHeadCase]

Awright! We have a Samsung BDP1400 which is Blu-Ray! Whooh!

 

[schweb]

Awright! We have a Samsung BDP1400 which is Blu-Ray! Whooh!

We just bought a really nice Sony upconverting DVD player. We wanted to wait out the standards war (which appears close to over now) and for the Blu-ray player prices to drop more.

 

[MacHeadCase]

You'll never guess... We got ours for below $380 CAN. It had outrageously dropped in price: we had seen it at $600 CAN about a month earlier.

 

[eugy]

Not to mention Warner has just gone Blu-Ray exclusive http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/warner-goes-blu-ray-exclusive/

very interesting story, thanks for the link

 

[northy124]

Finally Apple is getting in there to Blu-Ray wish they'd add HD-DVD as well i got the 360 Add-on for pc hoping to use on mac no can do lol

 

[anmoldagreat]

i always though mac supported blu ray ever since toast 8 because it has the feature to burn to blu ray discs... sure its not quite around yet but they must have preplanned it knowing that they were going to go bluray exclusive

ive personally been waiting for warner bros to make their decision and since they went bluray ill say hd is dead. time to start a bluray movie collection...

 

[Tanner31593]

Honestly,

This is gonna make me seem HORRIBLY technologically unadvanced, and i am to a degree-
but i dont even really know what blu-ray is. Or HD dvd, or any of that.
I don't really care either.
TV is TV,
DVD is DVD to me.
I dont have a flat screen TV, or even a flat screen monitor.
I dont have HDTV or Hi-Def or any of that.
My bedroom contains a 20inch magnavox tube,
a samsung dvd player,
a durabrand surround sound, and an xbox.

Im happy with it, its all i need. I could never justify spending thousands of dollars to upgrade all that just for TV, i dont have income like that, and even if i did, i would rather take my family on a nice Vay-K for $100 rather than buy the latest TV.

We have dish network and dial up (which may be satellite-but thats kidna confusing),
rabbit ears,
and normal DVDS and VHS tapes for recording.
Ill keep buying normal dvds and dvd players until they are no longer existing.

The only reason i would upgrade my TV and monitor to flat screen is that they contain too much lead (a greener Apple ) and take up a lot of space.
But hey-i already bought it, so im already hurting the environment with the lead in the screens-so i'll go flat screen as soon as these tv and monitors crap out.

(Which actually may be soon, this Magnavox isnt even 3 years old and its DYING a slow and painful death--a lot of times my "A/V" channel doesnt even show up! And the samsung dvd player no longer reads ANYTHING which is sad because i LOVED it, and same with my old PS2 i had, it quit reading things, then i bought a new one.)

So when i see "Blu-ray" or "hddvd",
I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Anyone else like this?

 

[schweb]

Honestly,

This is gonna make me seem HORRIBLY technologically unadvanced, and i am to a degree-
but i dont even really know what blu-ray is. Or HD dvd, or any of that.
I don't really care either.
TV is TV,
DVD is DVD to me.
I dont have a flat screen TV, or even a flat screen monitor.
I dont have HDTV or Hi-Def or any of that.
My bedroom contains a 20inch magnavox tube,
a samsung dvd player,
a durabrand surround sound, and an xbox.

Im happy with it, its all i need. I could never justify spending thousands of dollars to upgrade all that just for TV, i dont have income like that, and even if i did, i would rather take my family on a nice Vay-K for $100 rather than buy the latest TV.

We have dish network and dial up (which may be satellite-but thats kidna confusing),
rabbit ears,
and normal DVDS and VHS tapes for recording.
Ill keep buying normal dvds and dvd players until they are no longer existing.

The only reason i would upgrade my TV and monitor to flat screen is that they contain too much lead (a greener Apple ) and take up a lot of space.
But hey-i already bought it, so im already hurting the environment with the lead in the screens-so i'll go flat screen as soon as these tv and monitors crap out.

(Which actually may be soon, this Magnavox isnt even 3 years old and its DYING a slow and painful death--a lot of times my "A/V" channel doesnt even show up! And the samsung dvd player no longer reads ANYTHING which is sad because i LOVED it, and same with my old PS2 i had, it quit reading things, then i bought a new one.)

So when i see "Blu-ray" or "hddvd",
I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Anyone else like this?

Just as an aside, it would be alot easier to read your posts if you used proper grammar and paragraph structure and laid off the emoticons.

 

[Tanner31593]

Just as an aside, it would be alot easier to read your posts if you used proper grammar and paragraph structure and laid off the emoticons.

I do have HORRIBLE grammar.
And i wasn't trying to write a paragraph at all.
But i used a whopping 1 emoticon. lol.

But i'll keep that in mind next time.

 

[schweb]

I do have HORRIBLE grammar.
And i wasn't trying to write a paragraph at all.
But i used a whopping 1 emoticon. lol.

But i'll keep that in mind next time.

You mean like this time?

Trust me, people will begin to ignore you if you don't start using proper grammar and sentence structure. You're posts are WAY too difficult to read.

I've seen it happen many times here over the years. But it's up to you in the end...

 

[Tanner31593]

You mean like this time?

Trust me, people will begin to ignore you if you don't start using proper grammar and sentence structure. You're posts are WAY too difficult to read.

I've seen it happen many times here over the years. But it's up to you in the end...

Okay, I didn't see MAJOR mistakes in that post. Sure, it's still bad. Thanks for the advice. I'm working on it, I promise! Otherwise I would have started that post with:

"Okay,

I didnt see MAJOR mistakes in hat post.
Sure,
its still bad.


Thanks for the advice.
I'm working on it,
I promise! "

LOL, might have exagerated that a bit, but it doesn't seem to far off from my norm. By the way is there a way to turn on spell check in Safari so I can correct my spelling while i type?

 

[PowerBookG4]

schweb! you completely through me off, i was like whose this dude with the lens as a avatar.

 

[schweb]

schweb! you completely through me off, i was like whose this dude with the lens as a avatar.

Ha, Fallooza must be livid. He hates avatar changers.

 

[kkelly122]

The only reason I got blu ray is because it is 1080p and supports 7.1 surround sound which we just put in our new addition and we got it for 299 on black Friday

 

[Gbeav]

It only makes sense that apple would go with blu-ray. The menu system for hd-dvd uses a microsoft patent. Blu-ray uses java.

 

[PowerBookG4]

The 1080P vs 1080I from my understanding is more a marketing ploy and has to do with the FPS or something. I think 1080i is like 60 fps while 1080p is 24 fps so they even them selves out or something to the naked eye. Go visit avsforum.com please, lots of the myths about one brand being superior than the other are debunked there plus its kind of funny to watch the fan boys duke it out (got so bad in november that they had to close the forum for 2 weeks to let everyone cool down).

Both 1080i and 1080p are 30fps

60i refers to the fact that each frame is interlaced with 2 fields getting you 60, its really 30.

the P just means that the feilds are not taken and just takes a whole new frame. This is harder to do.

24 Frames per Second Progressive (24p) is the speed at which film is mostly shot (they can shoot at any rate they want to get an effect).

When talking about blu-ray the P means the dvd sends out a WHOLE NEW FRAME 30 times in a second, not just part of a frame as is what interlaced video is (the "i")

I hope that cleared things up

 

[MegaRoss]

When we had betamax and vhs, vhs won because the porn industry chose it.
The porn industry has chosen bluray now, I reckon even now it's being favoured over hd dvd, i haven't seen many hd dvd's in the shops and that it'll be the universal new standard whether it's a pc or a mac.

 

[northy124]

Actually the Porn Industry are using both formats for their films. Unless there was an update i'm unaware of.