Okay, so there's no Good Ship Blu-ray, but Sony would love for you to believe that Blu-ray is a massive battleship that dominates the waters, stopping to offer assistance to the little wooden raft called HD DVD. It's not all that bad, but Sony Pictures VP Don Eklund couldn't help but throw a little jab. He invited Microsoft and Toshiba to the Blu-ray party in a recent interview, says Next-Gen.
"We would love to have Toshiba and Microsoft on board," said Eklund. "Toshiba can't keep dropping prices much more. It may be a strategy for fighting a format war, but for us it has to be profitable."
Eklund also throws up some defense for the "downloads are the future" attacks:
"People aren't interested in downloading videos at the moment," he said. "The internet is a good way of delivering music but not video. Blu-ray has a good 8 to 10 years before the internet catches up."
Sony, what if HD DVD is more like a submarine, with its torpedoes aimed right at you?
[Thanks, JV]
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2:16 PM on 09.06.2007
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I can agree, in part, about the download thing though. Downloading high def video wouldn't be an on demand sort of thing. You could probably go rent a movie, watch and return it before the download finished.
I'd love to queue up stuff and save the hassle of having to go get it, but movie downloads are like netflix, you decide you want them later, not right now.
And honestly, video download services are getting better all the time and it won't be too far off until they become popular. Already there are services that allow you to have full HD video and you can start watching the video as soon as it starts buffering. Stage6 is one example. Obviously they focus on free content but it wouldn't be too hard to modify it slightly and make is a monthly subscription or pay per movie to download it or streaming watch it.
pay-per-view has also been around for quite some time now and it can only become cheaper as technology advances, making accessible to more and more people.
I just think Sony should be careful, they haven't won any format war yet. blu-ray has taken a lead, but the PS3 is still selling much less than they had hoped.
A 5GB on an average connection can take anywhere up to 3 or more days. Thats if your using your connection for other things as well. No ones going to fully dedicate their line to just one movie, thats crazy. Most likely after the first movie they will stop.
Its more than 5GB btw, the average hidef movie take up enough of a 25BD to only leave enough room for a standard def movie from what I hear, a standard def movie is around 700MBs. So thats a little more than 5GB, especially when you think about the extras.
high encoded MPEG4 takes up that much space. BR is using 50GB of data. I've seen stuff encoded at 15mb in HD and stuff encoded at 30Mb in HD. 30's better. By far.
I'd also like to point out too that USB connections don't support playing HD resolution video properly at high speeds. The 360 maxes out it's playback support of h264 based MPEG4 at 10Mbps, and it looks lousy when playing from an external drive. I have to copy my 10mbps content on my PS3 to the TINY internal drive to play it back. Even that's a pain in the ass, since a 5GB video file (about 30 minutes) takes around 10 minutes to copy over.
I'll stick with physical media. I also prefer the ability to do higher MPEG4 encoding with BluRay.
Still, it's amusing to think that just over ten years ago, 1.2gb hard drives were nearing high end. Nowadays you need a Terabyte drive to be considered 'High End'...
http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/hi-fi-and-audio/other-playback-and-recording-formats/news/how-to-fit-1tb-of-data-on-one-cd-sized-disc?articleid=1665250963&source=rss
Blame the internets, more specifically, the people reporting these articles. The PS3 has a blu-ray drive so by default blu-ray articles are relevant. Forget the fact the PS2 had a DVD drive and it was treated seperately from DVD video, logic has no place here!
I downloaded an HD movie from Live in a bit over half a day. So...hi.
Personally, I'm split. I bought a PS3 thinking at least a little bit that it would win the format war because of the greater backing. The moves of the movie companies in the past few weeks have made me question my decision at least a little bit more than I did before. There are a lot Universal movies and TV shows that I like. Big Lebowski and Heroes for starters.
I still like VHS, goddamit.
pwned.
as for dvddesigns comments. I understand where you are coming from. Yes, when you put video on a disc like bluray, you have 50GB of data. hooray for that. But on the same note, when a movie is put onto a DVD it is ofter 4GB or even 8GB of data. If you rip that dvd to your computer in an iso or vob then it will stay at that 4GB or 8GB but it is completely unnecessary. I can guarantee you that if you take a movie that is 2 hours long, rip it from a DVD into an avi that is 2GB in size, you will lose no video quality, at least not that I have ever noticed.
most pirated movies get pushed down to 700mb, the video quality on those files are noticeably lower in quality but I ofter download HDTV recordings of different shows. 30 minutes is often about 400mb and that is usually a 720i/p resolution. at that rate a 2 hour movie would be 1.6GB when encoded into an avi with Xvid.
I am just saying, downloaded movies are very possible if companies want them to be. The blu-ray format is wholly unnecessary and overcompensating for a movie disc format.
Yeah it's a bit slow unless your PC is some godly multi-core thing... BUT IT WORKS!
I'm sick of this nonsense, holmes.
HD-DVD, for the win. Blu-Ray is just a waste of money.
HD DVD FTW!