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Some opinions.

I think the PS3 Blu-Ray drive is key. I typically consider myself an early adopter, but even still was on the fence regarding HD formats until the PS3 came out. I now have a PS3 (which is freaking awsome btw) and thus several blu-ray movies in the movie library. PS3 integration is going to be very good for blu-ray overall, and a much more succesful than the XBox "buy the add-on" modality for the HD-DVD drive.

I totally agree, I'm not an expert on this issue by any means. I still give HD-DVD a chance, but not a very good one. All the news I've been hearing has been about blu-ray. It's actually kind of funny because people were talking about how HD-DVD had a name that consumers could relate to. Turns out that people don't want just an "upgraded dvd" they want something new... and blue, so true. OK sorry about the rhyme.

Second, I also agree that the PS3 is freaking awesome. Anyone who bashes the PS3 clearly hasn't used one. I love the wii, and I love the 360, and I love the PS3. This is by far the best generations of consoles that have come out in a while (IMHO). Quit bitching about the PS3. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Sorry, I have NEVER posted in the PS3, 360, Wii flame war because it's so lame. I just wanted one time to say what I thought. :)

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HD-DVD is not technically better

HD-DVD is "technically better" ever so slightly. BR has adoption by machine sellers on its side. PS3 to the point they could not make blue lasers fast enough, Apple who is a mass-market consumer and media company. On some level BR has a few legs up. People buy discs to play on what they have.

Betamax was "better" than VHS, but VHS player sales initially did better because of increased commissions on hardware sales at stores "like" Pacific Stereo. Once the adoption trend was set, publishers saw increased demand for titles published on VHS vs Betamax. After a while they phased out Betamax titles.

Hey MM, you are not the only old man here :) You do take a bit of getting used to. . . .

When the quad iMac is released is not particularly relevant. It will run CS3 great and FCP just fine unless you are a really heavy user of effects, which 98% of people are not. I wonder if it will have a built-in Infiniband I/O? :)

NAB folks need upscale MacPros with upscale add-in cards and upscale storage and upscale FC software. (I should have said FCX for Xtreme in my first post not FCE which should be used for Express).

This an exceptionally important show for Apple IMHO.

Rocketman

Umm... There are a lot of sites that I have been reading that say blu-ray is technically better... I think that you're wrong on this point. Blu-ray has more storage per layer and can offer better picture quality. My understanding is that some early blu-ray movies used an inferior codec compared to early hd-dvd movies leading a bunch of people to think that hd-dvd was technically superior. I'm pretty sure that if you compare more recent releases that you will find blu-ray as good or better than hd-dvd quality.

Please, if anyone knows more about this than me please comment on this issue I would be very interested to hear other peopls opinions/facts on this matter.

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SSDs vs. HDDs

Assuming prices slide that much, where will hard drive prices be then in 1-2 years? Probably even lower with still much larger capacity. I ran the numbers last week, and I think I calculated that parity would take something like 5-6 years, assuming the current rate of price sliding, based on cost per GB.


Well you have to believe that once more SSDs start shipping that the price drop will accelerate whereas the price drops on HDDs will probably maintain approximately there current rate. Also, you would have to assume that as SSDs overtake HDDs that HDD price might flatten or actually begin to rise.

my take

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Blu-ray vs HD-DVD is pertenent to this thread.

Very true, and I hope you are right.. I make music that I want to use for my multimedia-projects. Soundtrack is useless for that task, adn I have not yet bought a software package that will help me do this, as I wait for the next revision of Logic, which will be a very important part of Final Cut Studio for a lot of us.

Hmmm... Maybe Apple pulls off a segmenting-stunt and releases several versions of FCS, one for musicians with Logic 8 in it. :)
hehe Wouldn't be very Apple, but I am allowed to dream aren't I?

By the way, this thread is not really about BR vs HDDVD, regardless of how the last two pages contains nothing but that debate..

I think that the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray issue is quite pertinent for a Professional Broadcasting conference.... I mean it's kind how people tend to transport video data.

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I know this is fairly off topic, but I was just checking out what kind of stuff MacOSRumors is making up and here's an interesting tidbit from their front page:

We've been playing with Photoshop CS3 and the rest of the new Intel-optimized Suite of Adobe's applications....and although the performance is gratifying on new Macs including the new Octo-core Mac Pro

Unless they were using very early pre-release stuff, neither Adobe CS3 nor the octo MacPro is out yet. If they were, there would've been a lot more mention of it on here. Just thought I'd share.
 
so is this still hapening its itnresting to see what apple will come out with now cs 3 is already out same with mac pros the only thing i can think of is new Hd Displays blu ray suport? possible 10.5 but i doubt it
 
so is this still hapening its itnresting to see what apple will come out with now cs 3 is already out same with mac pros the only thing i can think of is new Hd Displays blu ray suport? possible 10.5 but i doubt it

I actually think that it is quite likely that the next iDVD will have support for burning to blu-ray and/or HD DVD
 
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