Blu-ray........a con??

chaos said:
Sy said:
chaos said:
The difference in quality can be clearly noticed in larger screens. BD is not a bad thing, I just think it's a bit too expensive right now for me to bother getting one.
Maybe next year.
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I noticed minor pixilation watching DVD's on my friends HDTV (it's pretty big). It seemed so minor to me that it's not distracting and nothing to get fussed about. If you do actually notice it you'll forget after a couple of minutes anyway.
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That's what I mean, it's not bothersome though. On a BD or HDDVD you don't see the pixelation.
I don't have those fancy audio systems, so I can't tell about sound. Wanted to get one these nice home theater stuff someday though, but cba right now.
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If you run through an upscaler on a VGA or HDMI connection the pixellation goes away entirely in 99% of cases.
 
Blu Ray itself isn't a con. Blu Ray is merely bigger storage. You could have a HD content on normal DVD you know? I say content as you wouldn't be able to fit an entire movie on a single disc. Though whatever your playing the DVD on would have to have a HDMI output to a HDTV to get the best effect.

Though it does look strange when you have to pay out money for a film that has been out for years and in some cases its not justified as sometimes they do an awful job in cleaning the film and restoring it and giving it a higher quality. Though new films don't have that problem since they wouldn't be filmed on film.

It looks now like they will be able to get 400GB of space out of a single Blu Ray disc, though its hasn't been confirmed if they can be used in today's Blu Ray players.

DVD will be slowly be pushed aside when the technology for Blu Ray gets cheaper as more space on a disc is a good thing :)
 
Zen 2nd said:
DVD will be slowly be pushed aside when the technology for Blu Ray gets cheaper as more space on a disc is a good thing :)
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When you can pick up Blu Ray players for £20 that are compatable with all regions of DVD's then I'm all for it. ;)
 
Sy said:
When you can pick up Blu Ray players for £20 that are compatable with all regions of DVD's then I'm all for it. ;)
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Seconded. However, didn't blu-ray really win the format war because it supported region coding (as do the most money-grabbing of the studios), and HD-DVD was region free?
 
They were both able to be region locked. Blu-ray won because of the marketing and support by Sony and that alone. They cost more to produce than HD-DVD as you need all brand new kit to press them unlike hd-dvd which just needed the old stuff updated somehow. The real winner though is Microsoft as both mediums use some of their technology.
 
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