Comments on: Was Blu-ray worth Sony’s effort?

By: MaDDoX

MaDDoX — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:33 +0000

ok last word!!!
Do you prefer a book on your hands….or you prefer read it on a pc after downloaded..or print with your printer?
That’s just an example to talk about buying movie or something else on internet.
The cost to product this movie it’s too low for them….and they sell at the same price of the other..

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:01:48 +0000

It’s true that consumers have it ingrained in them that they don’t own what they can’t hold, but I don’t believe that it’s because they don’t trust the ones and zeroes to stay where they are.

Consumers have flocked to some digital delivery services, iTunes comes to mind. Reason there is that even though there’s DRM, they trust Apple not to turn it against them (whether they drop the ball on that remains to be seen).

Then take a look at Microsoft’s PlaysForSure, but oops! they don’t play on Microsoft’s own Zune; burn on anyone who bought those tracks.

And what about Major League Baseball — people who paid to own digital videos of classic games got a surprise when the video tried to dial home to the MLB servers to validate the license… and failed because that DRM method was no longer supported?

Consumers have good reason to want to wrap their hands around media — get it with DRM or in a proprietary format, and you’re at the whim of a corporate entity. With HD-DVD, even though it’s dead, your player didn’t quit playing them right after the announcement.

By: Blue

Blue — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:23:28 +0000

I believe that bluray will be short lived. I think it’s time the world ditched the whole “disc” format. seriously, phonograph>laser disc>CD>DVD>HD-DVD>Bluray… its like 100 years old. And I believe we will pretty soon, so what will take the place of the disc? Flash cards, really, they get bigger and cheaper all the time, eventually, when they get big and cheap enough, someone will say “what if we put a movie on one”
To prevent piracy, it would have to be a special card, one anyone cant just rip to a PC, or go to a store and pick up a stack of blanks.
On the same box, they can include a standard multicard reader (SD, XD, CF, MS) for recording TV, playing home movies, etc. just not recording movies. Cards can be used over and over again, while DISC-RW’s can only be used a few times. We still need a good portable video recorder for DTV like VHS was for regular TV.

The greatest thing for the people is the fact that any resolution video can be recorded to it, even the resolution shown in theaters, making a “home theater” truly possible. And the fact that cards can come in bigger sizes, means that space wont be limited to 40 or 50GB.

This is a possible future, but who knows, right? maybe something better will pop up.

By: Ken Mitchell

Ken Mitchell — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:56:24 +0000

“>end sarcasm”

I LOLd right there!

By: Throwgali

Throwgali — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:38:50 +0000

Yeah who would ever want a digital copy over a physical medium especially when it is slightly compressed. I mean just think how much a failure the ipod was. NOBODY is going to go for that especially the average consumer who doesnt realize he is watching SDTV on his 1080P.
>end sarcasm.

Believe it or not there are people who don’t sit a foot in front of their TV comparing the same movie on regular DVD, the super-bit version, and then HD-DVD and BluRay. Digital media has many advantages over physical media in terms of portability, accessability, organization, etc. There will always be the ultra high def format that will be ahead of the current digital medium but that will become more the domain of the super user as the average consumer will just go for the convenience.

By: MaDDoX

MaDDoX — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:54:36 +0000

Phisical media….
That’s the real freedom that all of us need.
Digital delivery..microsoft..and other big company always talk about this like a wonderfull fantastic near the corner future.
I’m not sure about this…just couse tecnology it’s need it to emprove the life quality in a society…and it’s not need it to create a stand alone human (person) that can delivery emotion or himself in some usefull way.
For me it’ doesn’t matter if a internet line it’s capable or not…for sure i know that all of this movement it’s just to make money for sure all around the planet…selling the image that all of that guys going to buy that it’s very trendy and modern.Please…walk…go ut….and give a copy of your f******g wonderfull hd content to a friend or just go somewhere watching one on a portable system.
i agree with all just posted a serious discussion about hd (bill Jenkins) era.
Sorry for my english…i hope that i explained what i mean ^^

Thx

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:43:24 +0000

The idea of digital distribution intrigues me, but at the same time, i am not going to pay roughly the same price of a DVD for a digital download. Not only can i never resell it, but i also cannot trade it should i loose interest.

If the link below still works, i wrote up a possible solution that would be extremely easy to implement for digital downloads…

http://syngamer.com/life/digital-media-downloads-possible-solution/

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:05:19 +0000

My opinion is you’re an idiot.

By: Ken Mitchell

Ken Mitchell — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:53:28 +0000

All these are good arguments (except for Bill, who apparently only read the first paragraph), and I think it goes to show that no one knows for sure what’s coming next.

By: internetdude

internetdude — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:21:12 +0000

I use apple tv to rent my videos. It works like a charm. I could’nt care less about physical media. Whenever given the chance, I’m gonna buy it as a filedownload.