http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-049-PO&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=925 this will help blu-ray the first blu-ray combo drive without the expencive writing parts. I cant find any HD-dvd drives to compare it to sorry.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-049-PO&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=925 this will help blu-ray the first blu-ray combo drive without the expencive writing parts. I cant find any HD-dvd drives to compare it to sorry.
Not a chance. Not for a good while yet anyway. I don't know how things are in the rest of the world but here in the UK virtually everyone's broadband is capped one way or another. Be it actually stopping you after a certain limit is reached or seriously reducing your speeds. Downloading vast amounts of HD content (namely movies) by the masses is just not viable, the internet as it stands would be brought to a stand still.
Out where I live, a very large number of my friends live out where broadband is not available without spending several hundred dollars for a satellite dish and $80 a month for minimal speeds.
A miracle, considering the iPhone has nothing like a HD capable screenNot to worry. Soon they will be getting their HD content via their iPhones.
I see the war ending differently and it ending like the DVD -R+ amd DVD-R- war. End up the burners became duel formate and the DVD drives all where dual formate. I have a feeling the same thing will happen here.
Soon we´ll have full HD movie downloads at good speed from iTMS and others. I know I´d rather have a disk with all my movies than a shelf full of plastic covers.
So yes, the format war is over. Didn´t you know? The disc is dead.
A miracle, considering the iPhone has nothing like a HD capable screen![]()
the hd war was over a long time ago.....
It's nowhere NEAR over. Blockbuster isn't the only movie renting franchise in the world, you know...
Not a chance. Not for a good while yet anyway. I don't know how things are in the rest of the world but here in the UK virtually everyone's broadband is capped one way or another. Be it actually stopping you after a certain limit is reached or seriously reducing your speeds. Downloading vast amounts of HD content (namely movies) by the masses is just not viable, the internet as it stands would be brought to a stand still.
A miracle, considering the iPhone has nothing like a HD capable screen![]()
But it's pretty clear Blu-Ray has the momentum now and HD-DVD would need a miracle. New releases have slowed to a trickle, and Toshiba is the only company making players.
Meh, just buy this.
I concur. However I do see neither format performing very well, maybe it's me and my upscaling DVD player but I'm not too keen on paying double for a film on a HD format than regular DVD. What's the extra detail giving me? A better film?
raggedjimmi said:Anyroad. I do believe downloads are the future. The first company to bring out a set top box that downloads HD films is going to win. I say this with a 512kbps internet connection.
DVD is here till the next big thing. And that's neither HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
If that's the case, watch VHS. Having better resolution makes the same movie better than on an inferior format. I've done the upscaling DVD players, the HD formats are simply better. You can't create detail that isn't there. Movies being constant, why wouldn't you want the highest quality presentation?
The thing about the HD formats is that their backers want to believe it will be like DVD dethroning VHS all over again. However, when DVD took down VHS, you could see the difference in picture quality on any TV set, not just special high-priced bleeding-edge TV sets. You also got a ****load of new features, like menus and onscreen games and multiple soundtracks and 5.1 channel surround sound, all of which were impossible with VHS. Not to mention no longer having to rewind the damned tape: something that us old-timers will remember without fondness.
There's nothing like that to drive people to adopt either HD format. The leap from "no features" to menus and other fancy features was done already with DVD. The addition of digital surround sound was done already with DVD. The extra picture quality is totally academic unless you have a special TV. Hell, even if you do have an HDTV, will you really want to buy a special HD version of a movie unless you're a hardcore movie purist? Suppose your wife says she wants to take it upstairs and watch it on the little bedroom TV? Oops, that's a regular TV with a regular DVD player! Can't watch it there!
Now now...I wouldn't put it quite that way.
Blu-ray is kicking HD-DVD all over the place right now, but BOTH have pitiful sales. The majority of Blu-ray players is the poorest-selling console. More people watch movies than play games, so the fact that the game systems are selling better means adoption rates are still extremely low.
GFLPraxis said:I think the first player to hit sub-$200 or sub-$100 is going to take off rapidly. The vast majority of people have simply not invested in either format. I don't know anybody with a HD-DVD or Blu-ray player.