Re: Official Blu-Ray & HD-DVD Thread
This is precisely why I'm in absolutely no rush to jettison my HD-DVDs and go strictly Blu-Ray (that and I think that Toshiba hardware is 100000x better than the crap the BDA consortium has released). This profile 1.0/1.1/2.0 garbage is among the most idiotic things I've seen in my time with electronics. Coupled with the exorbitant cost of the Blu-ray hardware (which you've showed me won't come down for a long time), you just have a formula for disaster.
Warner loved talking about the "window of opportunity" for HDM- well, if Joe Schmoe is going to have to determine if his 1.0 Blu-ray player that he got for cheap will match up with a disc only compatible with a 2.0 player, look out. I don't think there was any "window" to be honest and I think it was a front for the real motivations behind the deal- lots and lots of the green stuff.
This is just going to be another reason why HDM is not going to take off- I'm getting more and more pessimistic about its future. I fear it won't be anything more than a niche market for the next couple of years (at earliest). That really pisses me off.
Hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the "second" digital decade that Gates talked about in his keynote at CES is looking more and more likely to have digital delivery of media as a huge portion if these boneheads don't get their acts together.
This is precisely why I'm in absolutely no rush to jettison my HD-DVDs and go strictly Blu-Ray (that and I think that Toshiba hardware is 100000x better than the crap the BDA consortium has released). This profile 1.0/1.1/2.0 garbage is among the most idiotic things I've seen in my time with electronics. Coupled with the exorbitant cost of the Blu-ray hardware (which you've showed me won't come down for a long time), you just have a formula for disaster.
Warner loved talking about the "window of opportunity" for HDM- well, if Joe Schmoe is going to have to determine if his 1.0 Blu-ray player that he got for cheap will match up with a disc only compatible with a 2.0 player, look out. I don't think there was any "window" to be honest and I think it was a front for the real motivations behind the deal- lots and lots of the green stuff.
This is just going to be another reason why HDM is not going to take off- I'm getting more and more pessimistic about its future. I fear it won't be anything more than a niche market for the next couple of years (at earliest). That really pisses me off.
Hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the "second" digital decade that Gates talked about in his keynote at CES is looking more and more likely to have digital delivery of media as a huge portion if these boneheads don't get their acts together.
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