Are you a dvd or blue ray disc owner or both?

[rkeane]

In the coming weeks and months the prices will drop considerably for all things related to Blu-ray. One of my best friend is a senior marketing advisor for Dixons, he has already told me that these products will be mainstream over the next couple of years.

Regarding the PS3, that's a great piece of kit.

[Thewarrior007]

gosimeon, call me a geek but I've been watching this very closely. The only reason Blu-ray hasn't taken off is because of the format war....nobody wanted to buy a dud player. Now that Sony have won, and all the studios will back it.....Blu-ray will become the format for the next 4 to 5 years. HD-DVD is finished! High Definition is the future, in saying that, standard DVDs will die a slow death. Most people can appreciate the massive difference in quality that Blu-ray offers

even if standard dvds do go out
will blue ray players play standard dvds?LIke there be lot of people with
their own personal collection of dvds some with rare hard to get to films and will
not buy them a second me included

RKeane, you know that because you have being following the situation. Blue-Ray and HD-DVD are just not worth it to the vast majority of customers, they haven't a clue about the whole format war. Whenever they enquire about Blue Ray etc. and we explain what the difference is, they don't think it's worth investing a few hundred euro extra for a player/TV and paying an extra ten euro per DVD. They just don't care enough about their picture quality; and I agree with them!

I agree if Im paying for a film im gonna want it at a reasonable price
like I said on this thread spiderman boxset on dvd before christmas 35 euro
on blue ray 60 euro I for one would have no intention in paying an extra 25 euro
regarldess if the quality is better or not

[rkeane]

Blu-ray players will play your regular dvd's

[rkeane]

Toshiba Exits HD DVD Business, as I predicted Sony has won out.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120342115442976687.html

[The OD]

These companies get away with it because they rely on the idiot factor - that being that there will always be a significant portion of the population who have to rush out and buy the latest technology before it has been properly tested. The type of retards who rush out to buy a brand new car every sinlge year because their lives are so shallow and their partners so ugly and their children so dull that its the only way they can experience some form of significance in their lives.

Sadly, I have no way to know if my wish that all those clowns evangelising the greatness of Vista within a week of its release would catch AIDS ever came true but I can hope?

Anyway, best be off home to use Fedora - a proper operating system. Unlike this XP junk work makes me use.

Snore.