Excited about HD Blu-ray? What about 4K Red-Ray?

[lordfoul]

Since the high definition format war has been decided and Blu-ray is slowly but surely moving into more and home homes, video enthusiasts may be looking for the next thrill: Red just announced its Red-Ray player, the only “Beyond HD“ playback device we are aware of - supporting movies with a resolution of up to 4096 x 2048 pixels.

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[mountain_rage]

Too bad they will be competing with holographic memory.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8370

[Signa]

yet another reason for me to feel that BR sucks. they really aimed too low when they set their goal of making the next-gen DVDs. i swear its every other week i hear of some new technology that will give BR a run for its money either in cost or in features.

[mountain_rage]

Theres alway going to be a format war because companies want to keep making money off the royalties. Blue ray was just another scheme to get people to re buy movies they already own. Its also an attempt at raking in licensing fee's. Hell even the manufacturers are happy to introduce a new format every 5 years. To be honest, the media should be made independent of the player. Sadly this won't happen for a good while yet, maybe once we have virtually limitless storage things will be forced to change.

[drtoker]

Originally Posted by mountain_rage

Blu ray was just another scheme to get people to re buy movies they already own.

Replacing movies? Yea, I bought a bunch of blurays to replace some VHS movies, mostly disney. But replacing just random flicks that I have on dvd? Why? If people want to do it, fine, but I dont see that as a drawback to bluray; 'getting customers to rebuy movies' Thats a load, no one's forcing anyone to buy anything.

Thats like saying Color tv's were invented so people would buy a new TV or CD's were invented just to make people rebuy the same albums they already own.

Originally Posted by Signa

yet another reason for me to feel that BR sucks. they really aimed too low when they set their goal of making the next-gen DVDs. i swear its every other week i hear of some new technology that will give BR a run for its money either in cost or in features.

Thats terribly short sited. Bluray has already shown to be a positive thing in the HD world, both gaming and movies. There will always be something bigger and better and faster and smaller right around the corner. Is that any reason not to progress right now?

[moneoa]

Originally Posted by lordfoul

“Beyond HD“ playback device we are aware of - supporting movies with a resolution of up to 4096 x 2048 pixels.

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Thats beyond useless....like really...HD itself is pushing the whole boundary on what is marketing gimmic and what is actually discernable to the human eye. It's like Megapixles in cameras where most people don't realise that after they went past 5 or 6 megapixles, hell i'd even venture 4 m.p that we are talking serious sales bullshit.

All resolution means is if you were to put it up on a huge viewing area or in the case of photos blow it up into a wall consuming picture it minimizes the distortion when viewing. All people are doing is buying into that shit and buying bigger T.V.s so when the old gen looks like shit again (i.e. it's still as good as before because when viewed through standard and homley means of a regular 31 inch Tv there is no real benefit) they can sell you the new super duper poo ray with bells and whistles along with that 80 inch overcompensating viewfinding cock master 3000 Plasma you've always dreamed of.

Im off now to defrag my pentium 4

Any more marketing cliches we can stump for?

Huzzah

[mfgbypooter]

blu-ray red-ray fuck it I want the x-ray.

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[mountain_rage]

X-ray pfff, that is so 19th century. I want gamma rays.

[mfgbypooter]

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