blu-ray/HD DVD..

[aliasaid]

futureshop is now selling blu-ray disc players and HD DVD players.. for a mere $1300 and $700 respectively..



anyone planning on buying either of these? have there been any movies released for either of these formats?

i say 4 years from now they'll be selling for $35 lol... like dvd players now..

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10073990&catid=

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10071898&catid=

note: CAD$

edit: the blu-ray disc player is actually not going to be releaesd till june 30th.. but the HD DVD one is getting released may 5th..

 

[Tyler1989]

This is the same thing that happened with DVDs in the beginning.


The format war is Betamax vs VHS all over again.


I support Blue-Ray.

 

[aliasaid]

ya i support blu-ray as well...

 

[ncjimn]

I think you can already buy some movies on HD-DVD.

I don't know about supporting one of the formats this soon. Last time sony fooled me with their SACD format. I really thought SACD was the way to go....and it wasn't.

So I'll wait and probably go with whichever is cheaper.

 

[PP Mguire]

Or which ever dosent get sent to the dooms of **** lol. One of them will reign supreme and everything will support it. The other wil ljust die i believe.

 

[talldude123]

problem is, thats a blue-ray DVD player.

In another 5 years, they will charge $400 for a blu-ray DVD recorder.

Wait a few years...

 

[Harper]

I am just going to wait a little bit before I look at purchasing either a HD-DVD or BLU-RAY player.

Like I have seen that many other pieces of technology arrive and die a silent death.
Eg. BetaMax, Mini Disc, Laser Disc, UMD Movies.

 

[Tyler1989]

Betamax was superior to VHS yet it lost. Blue Ray owns HD-DVD in all respects but cost will this be a repeate of the old tape format?

 

[Nubius]

whatever, they just need to hurry the crap up and give us something with more storage. It's ridiculous to have 500gb hard drives and the biggest thing out there is a dual layer disc at 8.4gb or so.

I remember reading somewhere about 'holographic' storage on discs that would hold up to 300gb and whatnot. THAT'S what we need.

 

[aliasaid]

whatever, they just need to hurry the crap up and give us something with more storage. It's ridiculous to have 500gb hard drives and the biggest thing out there is a dual layer disc at 8.4gb or so.

I remember reading somewhere about 'holographic' storage on discs that would hold up to 300gb and whatnot. THAT'S what we need.

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104916