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Disney and Columbia TriStar have gone for 50GB Blu-Ray (no surprise as one's owned by Sony).
Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros have opted for the 30GB HD-DVD.
Apparently it's all going to be decided by whichever format the porn industry decides it likes the most.
Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros have opted for the 30GB HD-DVD.
Apparently it's all going to be decided by whichever format the porn industry decides it likes the most.
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Why are things moving on so quickly?
Is there really any need to move away from DVD?
It's got enough space for most normal stuff, by far, and the picture quality is hardly poor.
And I don't want to buy a new player.
No need for this, really.
Is there really any need to move away from DVD?
It's got enough space for most normal stuff, by far, and the picture quality is hardly poor.
And I don't want to buy a new player.
No need for this, really.
The truth is that people don't particularly care about quality. People care about cheap.
Sony have the same problem with BluRay that they have had with every format they've ever released - people need to pay them significant amounts of money to use it. What's the point when you can just build your own HDDVD plant and make your DVDs yourself? Who ISN'T going to do that?
To be perfectly honest, though I don't think that either format will take off as the format of choice for films. There is absolutely nothing wrong with DVD. It's cheap, you can watch your film in surround sound, it's compact. That's all people care about. What's the point of HDDVD? Picture quality? Most people's TVs just aren't good enough for it to be worth it.
Sony have the same problem with BluRay that they have had with every format they've ever released - people need to pay them significant amounts of money to use it. What's the point when you can just build your own HDDVD plant and make your DVDs yourself? Who ISN'T going to do that?
To be perfectly honest, though I don't think that either format will take off as the format of choice for films. There is absolutely nothing wrong with DVD. It's cheap, you can watch your film in surround sound, it's compact. That's all people care about. What's the point of HDDVD? Picture quality? Most people's TVs just aren't good enough for it to be worth it.
hm. I would say that HD-DVD is more suited to the mass market, with the players touting compatibility with normal DVDs over Sony's machines which would require a whole seperate mechanism to read DVDs (so it's unlikely they will support them).
Blu Ray might be able to support even higher definition pictures, but then the Columbia Super-bit range hasn't really done as well as they hoped...
Blu Ray might be able to support even higher definition pictures, but then the Columbia Super-bit range hasn't really done as well as they hoped...
HURGH!
What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!
What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!
It's war.
Probably.
It probably works out cheaper to make 2 HD-DVDs...
An entire TV series on a single disc.
What film will use up 50GB? Most of the ones I own don't even use all of the 8GB on a DVD.
HD-DVD is cheaper though. Porn is made cheaply.
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