20 February 2008, 3:45 AM
*sigh* Yeah. With the loss of HD-DVD we're losing region free media that had more mandatory extras included than Bluray and also a more consumer friendly product.
Bluray may be the technically superior technology in terms of disc specs, but I always saw HD-DVD as being the friendlier of the two formats for the consumer... but of course the movie studios ultimately decided this one. From their point of view, Bluray is more beneficial since there's more space on Bluray discs, they don't have as many mandatory requirements to fulfill and the DRM is a lot more strict than what is found on HD-DVD.
Oh, and just a warning to those who think it's a good idea to buy a Bluray player at the moment. Don't. Not right now anyway, there are still a lot of revisions to be done before we finally see some REAL standardisation done for Bluray at the moment. Bnd if you are going to buy Bluray buy a PS3 since it's the only Bluray player with upgradeable firmware, so it's able to keep up with the software revisions.
Bluray may be the technically superior technology in terms of disc specs, but I always saw HD-DVD as being the friendlier of the two formats for the consumer... but of course the movie studios ultimately decided this one. From their point of view, Bluray is more beneficial since there's more space on Bluray discs, they don't have as many mandatory requirements to fulfill and the DRM is a lot more strict than what is found on HD-DVD.
Oh, and just a warning to those who think it's a good idea to buy a Bluray player at the moment. Don't. Not right now anyway, there are still a lot of revisions to be done before we finally see some REAL standardisation done for Bluray at the moment. Bnd if you are going to buy Bluray buy a PS3 since it's the only Bluray player with upgradeable firmware, so it's able to keep up with the software revisions.
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