as a college student, i've bought into the apple digital-ripped-movies-for-cheap via ipod line-out-to-tv system for acceptable quality at a decent price....thus i'm pretty neutral on the blu-ray/HDDVD debate....
neutrality thus established, my opinion has always been that blu-ray will win simply because consumers don't care about slightly differing specs so much as overall "feel," and the name "blu-ray" is simply, flat out more appealing than "H-D-D-V-D." you say, "hey, i just got a new blu-ray player!" and it sounds way less dorky and yet more advanced than saying, "hey, i just got a new HDDVDQXY player!"
I disagree. I think joe sixpack still isn't sold on this newfangled Blu-ray tech-nol-ergy. "Well, I know what a DVD is. I know what HD is. I think i can figure out what a HD DVD is. What's a Blu-ray?" The only people buying either of these is people that read these sites and the AVS Forum.
That said, after picking up a PS3 two days ago, though HD DVD has more movies that I'm into, the Xbox is so damn loud that it makes me want to buy Blu-ray discs because I can actually hear the movie on the PS3. Note: I'm referring to the Xbox itself as loud, not the add-on.
Who ever came up with that picture of a jet engine with a 360 logo on it floating around the 'net is a genius.
well....naturally, i disa-disagree...haha. the semantic stuff matters, and any consumer thinking of hi-def already knows that HDDVD and blu-ray do the same thing with different 'tech-nol-ergy.'
from there, if there's no discernable difference, it comes down to a name, and a string of letters is just not attractive. "aetch-dee-dee-vee-dee" does not roll off the tongue at all, and doesn't connect on an emotional level...it also feels like a tired reiteration of the previous generation (think "enhanced cd"). a name based on a color, especially a (objectively, yes) pleasant one like "blue"....it just feels nicer, in an approachably-technological way.
"see-dee" "dee-vee-dee" "blue-ray" "aetch-dee-dee-vee-dee" = not palatable in everyday consumer-speak word of mouth stuff.
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as a college student, i've bought into the apple digital-ripped-movies-for-cheap via ipod line-out-to-tv system for acceptable quality at a decent price....thus i'm pretty neutral on the blu-ray/HDDVD debate....
neutrality thus established, my opinion has always been that blu-ray will win simply because consumers don't care about slightly differing specs so much as overall "feel," and the name "blu-ray" is simply, flat out more appealing than "H-D-D-V-D." you say, "hey, i just got a new blu-ray player!" and it sounds way less dorky and yet more advanced than saying, "hey, i just got a new HDDVDQXY player!"
just my thought...
I disagree. I think joe sixpack still isn't sold on this newfangled Blu-ray tech-nol-ergy. "Well, I know what a DVD is. I know what HD is. I think i can figure out what a HD DVD is. What's a Blu-ray?" The only people buying either of these is people that read these sites and the AVS Forum.
That said, after picking up a PS3 two days ago, though HD DVD has more movies that I'm into, the Xbox is so damn loud that it makes me want to buy Blu-ray discs because I can actually hear the movie on the PS3. Note: I'm referring to the Xbox itself as loud, not the add-on.
Who ever came up with that picture of a jet engine with a 360 logo on it floating around the 'net is a genius.
well....naturally, i disa-disagree...haha. the semantic stuff matters, and any consumer thinking of hi-def already knows that HDDVD and blu-ray do the same thing with different 'tech-nol-ergy.'
from there, if there's no discernable difference, it comes down to a name, and a string of letters is just not attractive. "aetch-dee-dee-vee-dee" does not roll off the tongue at all, and doesn't connect on an emotional level...it also feels like a tired reiteration of the previous generation (think "enhanced cd"). a name based on a color, especially a (objectively, yes) pleasant one like "blue"....it just feels nicer, in an approachably-technological way.
"see-dee"
"dee-vee-dee"
"blue-ray"
"aetch-dee-dee-vee-dee" = not palatable in everyday consumer-speak word of mouth stuff.