Well people, here's the bad part about these two format of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. This post should end the whole shebang. -I hope.
These two technologies are pretty much already obsolite on launch. With streaming online digital delivery formats getting smaller and better in data size (New Adobe HD Flash and MPEG 4), you're dealing with a simple box on its way that will handle HD in H.264 or better, with download times that will most likely take 1/1000 the time of going to the video store or retail outlet for an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
Toshiba and Sony will ofcourse push these formats to the limit, and for computer Data storage, that's neat...but flash drives will quickly surpass that format and there will be no burning. Let us not forget that burning altogether is the biggest, most horrible idea ever.
So, you spend a couple billion to make this and market this, and in the mean time, you have little gurus out there pushing online content delivery. I for one would rather have an HD Tivo or new device that gets me the content instantly and hosts the films online with my account. Again, nice formats, but they're already dead before anyone knows what the heck they are -that's the consumer. Consumers make things happen, not big business. Your regular dude that walks into a store is going to want what's on the shelf, but as soon as he sees a little box that has a built in $10 a month subscription service for the entire library of a studios film, he's going to go with that.
When someone hits online content delivery right, no more video stores, no more media. Just a cable and a box and a tv...or the box built into the tv. It's all over at that point. Pretty much forever. Appletv tried, but it was crap. But here it comes, you know?
So, just keep in mind that within 8 months of market introduction (Jan 1-Current), these two players went from 2K+ to $200. Both are pretty much worthless, but will have a neat little short day in the sun (probably until 2009 and be around), but mostly they'll be here because the companies have to have SOME proof that their R&D was worth a dang. They don't want any format to die.
In this whole format rivalry, you're dealing with a dark horse. Companies doing JUST online delivery.
Point of this is, if you're thinking about delivery of media, and it's physical media in your hand, start over. Online. That's the end of the story.
I feel sorry for all the people that bit on this one. 25-50 Gigabytes on a disc that takes forever to burn makes me about as happy as a mouse with a crushed head in a mouse trap. Try a format or disc that's running 3 TB, and burns in 3 minutes, and then maybe, just maybe I'll raise my eyebrows.
Check out the holographic versitlie disc. Certainly I'd mess with that for a while. But then again...online.
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Well people, here's the bad part about these two format of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. This post should end the whole shebang. -I hope.
These two technologies are pretty much already obsolite on launch. With streaming online digital delivery formats getting smaller and better in data size (New Adobe HD Flash and MPEG 4), you're dealing with a simple box on its way that will handle HD in H.264 or better, with download times that will most likely take 1/1000 the time of going to the video store or retail outlet for an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
Toshiba and Sony will ofcourse push these formats to the limit, and for computer Data storage, that's neat...but flash drives will quickly surpass that format and there will be no burning. Let us not forget that burning altogether is the biggest, most horrible idea ever.
So, you spend a couple billion to make this and market this, and in the mean time, you have little gurus out there pushing online content delivery. I for one would rather have an HD Tivo or new device that gets me the content instantly and hosts the films online with my account. Again, nice formats, but they're already dead before anyone knows what the heck they are -that's the consumer. Consumers make things happen, not big business. Your regular dude that walks into a store is going to want what's on the shelf, but as soon as he sees a little box that has a built in $10 a month subscription service for the entire library of a studios film, he's going to go with that.
When someone hits online content delivery right, no more video stores, no more media. Just a cable and a box and a tv...or the box built into the tv. It's all over at that point. Pretty much forever. Appletv tried, but it was crap. But here it comes, you know?
So, just keep in mind that within 8 months of market introduction (Jan 1-Current), these two players went from 2K+ to $200. Both are pretty much worthless, but will have a neat little short day in the sun (probably until 2009 and be around), but mostly they'll be here because the companies have to have SOME proof that their R&D was worth a dang. They don't want any format to die.
In this whole format rivalry, you're dealing with a dark horse. Companies doing JUST online delivery.
Point of this is, if you're thinking about delivery of media, and it's physical media in your hand, start over. Online. That's the end of the story.
I feel sorry for all the people that bit on this one. 25-50 Gigabytes on a disc that takes forever to burn makes me about as happy as a mouse with a crushed head in a mouse trap. Try a format or disc that's running 3 TB, and burns in 3 minutes, and then maybe, just maybe I'll raise my eyebrows.
Check out the holographic versitlie disc. Certainly I'd mess with that for a while. But then again...online.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
B.D.Kuchera 8-29-07