Chances looked slim that consumers will be spared a DVD format war, as the backers of one standard said on Friday there was no common ground for a unified format and it was on track for a market launch within a year. "If we want a unified standard, it has to be better than the sum of the parts. We would like to find something that's better in the other standard than ours, but we haven't found it," said Frank Simonis, a spokesman for backers of the Blu-ray standard. Speaking on the sidelines of the IFA consumer electronics trade fair, Simonis said the Blu-ray association was ready to lay down the specifications of the higher-capacity DVD format in the spring of 2006. The rival HD DVD camp has recently had to push back its launch into the New Year. "We're no longer lagging behind," said Simonis, who is also strategic marketing director at the optical storage unit of Philips Electronics. At stake is the multibillion dollar market for DVD players, PC drivers and optical disks. Blu-ray promises higher capacity DVD disks (up to 50 Gigabytes) that can store high definition films and better interactivity and security. The HD DVD camp, on the other hand, claims it has a cheaper technology compatible with current DVD and CD players.
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Perhaps a little off topic, but what will these new standards be used for? Movies?
I cant see how DVD quality could be improved upon on my 17 inch analogue tv and its just going to mean more cost for me right? Am I going to have to buy a new player and replace all my DVD's with shiny new formats?
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In the end, HD DVD will become the standard format. Most people don't give 2 shits about capacity of a disc, as long as they don't have to go out and buy another machine to play it with. Besides. more capacity just means more content you need to fill the capacity with, and that just drives up the cost of the media itself. Blu-ray has a better future for video games.
great! nice to know that lessons are being learned from betamax vs VHS. Oh well screw them both, i'll wait 'til one of them wins, no way i'm buying any new hardware 'til i see who wins. Hopefully though the consumers won't lose, although right now it looks like we might do.
I hear that beardedwonder - I'll be waiting this one out
On a side note, I think they need to be honest - this isn't about who's is better, but the fact that they each want to control the market and make all the money. Not that there's anything wrong with that (in my opinion, at least), but they should at least be honest (like that's gonna happen!)
So if i read correclty hd dvd's will play on my current player so basically that standard is already compleatly in the market so hasnt it already won??? Unless people go out and actually hord out a bunch of blue ray players I cant see blueray breaking ground.
tomars, if you have a shitty 17" analog TV, no one cares about you, period.
Should the rest of us have to wait for everyone to buy newer TV sets and get up to date for technology to improve?
Hell no... Those of you complaining about things like this should stick to VCR tapes.
This is what I found funny:
On top of that, consumers should expect punishment for tinkering with their Blu-ray players, as many have done with current DVD players, for instance to remove regional coding. The new, Internet-connected and secure players will report any "hack" and the device can be disabled remotely.
"A hacked player is any player that is doing something it's not supposed to do," Setos said, adding the jury was still out if regional coding would be maintained or scrapped.
Umm, how about I'm 17 and have better things to spend my money on than trying to show off how big my TV is.Originally Posted by ivand67
Did I complain once about the new standards? No. I asked a couple of simple questions - "What will they be used for?" and "Am I going to have to buy a new player and replace my DVD collection?"
So thanks for disrupting the thread, gimp.
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Personally, I don't care which format wins! I, won't buy anything, until DRMs are cracked first.
so who is the idiot here?
the guy who owns the product that works (17" tv) or the dunmbasses who bought hdtvs that have little or no use?
seems pretty stupid to me to toss away thousands on a tv that needs programming that is only 10% available
Lets not forget the other deciding issue here, gang: WHICH CAMP's FORMAT WILL THE MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT COME OUT ON??
The content companies will NOT release on BOTH so-called competing formats. When you see actual titles appearing *and selling* on one over the other, you will have your common-place winner. Technical differences be damned. BetaMax and VHS are proof of that twenty-five years ago. One was technically better... the other WON.
In the long run this will just hurt consumers again... Remember the dvd + - war that was a mess its happening all over again just great....
i dont like blu-ray just because its sony. i have seen WAY TOO much shit come from sony and their inflated ego lately. dont get me wrong, sony is good, but they are turning out to be as bad for the electronics industry as the RIAA is for the music industry.
The format I prefer is P2P. They can come up with whatever discs they want, I'm not buying them except for storing more content that I download.
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