Sony announces the release of its Blue Ray player for July

talion

apparently the player will cost about $1000.

Any takers? Ready to trade in your DVDs yet?

I think I'll wait a while. Like until the market decides whether that or the HD competition will be the standard, and for the price to come down!

Anybody know whether regular DVDs can be played in this type of player?

daripper · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject:

I think I read somewhere that regular DVD's will not be compatible with the new players
but I could be wrong about that. I'm going to stick with my regular DVD's for just as long
as I can or until they quit making them. Wink

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*krafty* · Member Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 34

The playstation 3 due out this summer will incorporate a blueray player, I THINK.

this should only cost between 200 and 250 pounds sterling.
Very Happy

BigBalloon · Lifetime Member Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Posts: 747

ps3 has been delayed over here till november , think it was due to blueray probs
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The new players will be compatible with current DVDs, but until they decide on a standard, I don't plan on purchasing one. I believe a lot of consumers feel the same way considering the largest purchasing block in the U.S. are from my generation. I clearly remember the Beta vs. VHS war. I made the right choice and bought VHS, but a lot of my friends didn't.

If you make the wrong decision and invest in the wrong format, you will end up wasting a lot of money. It is not cost effective for the Studios to support two formats, once the public decides which format they are going to support; the studios that were on the bandwagon of the other format will jump ship.

The same thing happened with Laser Disc and its competing format. I don't remember the name of the other format, all I remember is the disc was the same size but was enclosed in a special sleeve. A lot of people invested in that format, but once the public made a choice, it died off.

The movie studios will continue to use the current DVD format. They would loose too much revenue if they don't considering they make more from DVD sales on most movies than they do from the theater release of their movies. My suggestion is wait until the public decides and the loosing format is pulled from the market.
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daripper · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:

Ahhhh yes I still remember the Beta vs. VHS war also, and I seem to remember the
Laser Disc war but I'm like DVD said I can't recall what it was called. I'm going to do
just like I did when the Beta vs. VHS war and the -R vs. +R DVD disc war was going
on. I'll just set back and see who comes out on top as the winner and save some $$$
or wait to see if they do like the -R and +R did and make both players and burners that
are compatible with both formats Blueray and HD + regular DVD. Wink

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chaotic646 · Artist Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 74 Location: USA

LD never really caught on either. A few people had it but nothing compared to VHS and DVD. Like many others , I will wait until the standard is chosen before I start investing.

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annarere1960 · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject:

i think i will wait on this one.... Confused

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chaotic646 · Artist Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 74 Location: USA

I have a channel master 4228 for my locals in HD. I also have Directv's new KA KU dish and H20 HD receiver but where I live, our locals havent been turned on yet so I cant compare it to my OTA antenna. I guess the market Im in wont be turned on until the 4th quarter of this year.

GEORGIEBOY26 · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject:

i went for Beta during the vhs/beta war Embarassed

so i will definately wait and see this time.... Smile

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talion · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

I'm still waiting for priecs todrop on the TVs too. It's amazing what a difference a year makes. literally thousands. I've pretty much decided I'll never buy first or maybe even 2nd generation anything anymore. doesn't seem to be any point given the rapid changes and price drops.

phil6580 · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

[quote="BigBalloon"]ps3 has been delayed over here till november , think it was due to blueray probs[/quote]

I,ve also heard this date but have also hearg it's because there is still a way of playing copies. Sony WANT to make sure it 100% cannot be chipped or hacked or anything like that.

snips71 · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

I think I'll wait too. I'm still watching a 35" tube I bought some fifteen years ago. Hopefully the war moves along quickly, because I am getting further behind in that end of technology. I remember beta hung around for about 3 years too long. Luckily we waited out the war and bought VHS. What a lifestyle change to be able to watch recent movies without having to wait 5 years until they were broadcast on TV.

talion · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject:

Phil, what did you mean about not playing copies? Did you mean you will only be able to play proprietary media? Isn't isn't supposed to be able to play older version DVDs as well? I must admit to ignorance in this area.

bagejoby · Guest

I think the BD & HD war will be over very quickly as SONY's ps3 will ship with a BD player intact & the fact you will have to pay extra for the HD capability for the xbox 360...

Lets look at the facts;

Blu-ray supports more data capacity per layer compared to HD DVDs.

- Blu-ray can hold 25Gb of data with the dual layerdisc holding 50Gb (with 100 & 200Gb versions in the making)
- HD can hold 15Gb of data with the dual layer disc holding 30Gb

Blu-ray discs are tougher than HD

- The BD discs are is coated in a hard protective layer made of a clear polymer, providing the discs with superb scratch resistance. The user can even clean their BD discs with a tissue without a second thought.
- Where as the HD discs are like standard DVD's.

The Blu-ray discs are thinner

- BD discs are 0.01mm thick
- HD discs are 0.06mm thick

That might not seem like much, but if BD were to make there discs the same thickness they could even further improve the capacity of the discs.

The only downside i have heard about for Blu-ray so far is that it's going to be more expensive than HD

Makaveli_uk · Guest

to be honest the discs that can be copyed with ease will win

thats the way the market goes

sony had beta max (wot a * up that was)

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