Comments on: Samsung Blu-ray player hits sub $300 level, HD-DVD trembling in fear

By: imaballa

imaballa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:13:22 +0000

Dave, he has more of a special insider knowledge about it because he sit with the board of directors of Paramount regarding the issue.

Microsoft is known for putting insurance policies in place.
They have said themselves they have entered the video game console race to prevent, yes the key word prevent Sony from putting a home media center in everybody’s living room. Another insurance policy to safeguard their movement towards the home media center, (having a PC not only in their bedroom, but in their living room). (Windows Media Center)

Michael Bay bitched and protested with the boards of Paramount but he lost and was told to shutup and put out basically, however Steven Spielberg was smart enough and had the forsight to put it in writing all of the movies he directs will be on blu-ray format. Smart guy.

ds45: Microsoft is the greedy company here, everyone knows their shaddy tactics of bulling smaller companies and taking over them.

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:25:36 +0000

imaballa, Michael Bay came out with garbage about HD DVD before and had to publicly admit he was wrong about HD DVD once before.

He’s just wrong again.

(and why should he have any special ‘insider’ knowledge about any of this, since when was a hired director supposed to know all about the technical specs of a media format or the supposedly secret Microsoft strategy!?)

The idea that any country (with maybe the exceptions of Sth Korea, Japan and Sweden) has the kinds of connections necessary for Bay’s nonsense is just laughable.
From slow speeds to download limits we are a long long way off of that terribel & scary Microsoft boogeyman.

Wake up

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:20:32 +0000

imaballa, that’s just not true.

Blu-rtay occasionally chooses not to use it’s region coding, that’s all.

It is 100% not true to pretend that Blu-ray is region free.

HD DVD meanwhile is 100% region free everytime.

By: ds45

ds45 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:29:07 +0000

Wow, people spouting all kinds of BS here. Amazing that so many of you agree with Danny Mendez, who obviously is probably in middle school. The Samsung BD-P1400 NEVER retailed at $1000 much less $2000. Not even close. Also the argument that I own a PS3 and buy blu-ray movies so everyone that owns a PS3 therefore buys blu-ray movies is retarded. Anyone who has actually watched movies on both formats would never call one or the other garbage. The people at Sony started this format war because they are greedy, HD DVD was chosen as the successor format to DVD. To the fine folks at Sony, this didn’t bring in as much cash as if they created their own similar format, and took all the money for themselves. This being the main reason why people got to fork over $599 for a PS3 and it being so hard to find. So maybe all of you should think for a minute before you so eagerly throw all your money at a company that is so greedy that they have been known to ‘plant’ spies on chatrooms to ‘tout’ Sony products to children, while pretending to be children.

By: imaballa

imaballa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:43:02 +0000

Blu-ray players are region free as well.

By: imaballa

imaballa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:42:18 +0000

Matthew, what planet have you been on?
The revenue of $150 million that appeared on Paramount’s financial records were cited as “additional advertising funds”, have been questioned as indirect money from Microsoft and Toshiba.
Microsoft denies it paid Paramount to switch sides, and indicated that Toshiba did not pay Paramount $50 million to switch sides but to “fund advertising.”
So, that leaves the $100 million, where did that money come from?
Microsoft has been reported in the media as the culprit for the rest of the $100 million.
Michael Bay’s rift, or argument with parent studio Paramount over decision to switch format to HD-DVD has been widely documented.

I’ll take Michael Bay’s word that the studio that hired him to produce Transformers 1,2,3 took money from Microsoft and Toshiba, considering he has the inside scoop.

By: nm156

nm156 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:38:02 +0000

Buyer beware. This player is not profile 1.1 upgradeable, much less to 2.0. This is an already obsolete model.

For the difference in price, you’re better off picking up a PS3.

By: John P.

John P. — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:35:19 +0000

I actually own this model and after installing the latest firmware it plays all movies that are out without a problem. It has the most advanced audio capabilities bar none (HD DVD or Blu-ray). It’s PQ and DVD upconverting of outstanding.

The only drawback is that it’s profile 1.0 so it can’t do PIP. Perhaps that’s important to some people, I’ve purchased and rented movies since DVD’s have been available and have yet to listen to a director or actor speak over a movie.

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:46:27 +0000

Blu-ray offers nothing meaningful over HD DVD.

Blu-ray is so over-reliant on the PS3 that it is effectively merely another game console format.

This Samsung is only profile 1.0, cannot just be ‘firmwared’ up to profile 1.1 or 2.0 (the 2 other stages of Blu-ray development they have yet to implement in order to offer features HD DVD has had since it began).

HD DVD have $100 US players on way, Blu-ray simply cannot compete.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:09:05 +0000

wow alot of people her take this war to seriously. i love movies hd dvd and i like them in bluray but (i dont own a bluray player but my bro does) they are pretty simular. you peoplewho say die to the other format ” Die Hd dvd” or “die bluray” have no seen the other format. Hd dvd to me is better than bluray ut blu ray has more of the movies that are released but Hd dvd is far better overall. I still like blu ray but not as much as i do for hd dvd. Alsoit s good that they lowered the price to $299 but i have heard rumours that the HD -A3 price drop in januarry.