blueray vs HD-DVD. War of the formats officially over

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blueray vs HD-DVD. War of the formats officially over

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What a great surprise :-X :lol:
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That's good! Now I can get the Blue Ray Player.
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which one of the formats were considered technological superior?

I mean - did the right format win?
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Can or will Blu-ray be used for Audio only aswell?
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petal wrote:which one of the formats were considered technological superior?

I mean - did the right format win?
The porn industry went with Blu-ray, so it won...

seriously...

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stardust wrote:hmmm...i heard that it was the media companies regrouping behind blue ray :)

http://gizmodo.com/366260/whole-blu-wor ... -aftermath
after the fact...

It was the classic beta vs. vhs battle all over again.
beta is better (or is it betta), and vhs is crap, but look who the porn industry picked up.

IMO all the blue-rays, HD's, etc. will go away when downloading picks up.

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Nope. Best was officially proofed: video2000
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video2000

Anyway blu ray is the media not the format try www.videohelp.com ;)
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Zer wrote:Nope. Best was officially proofed: video2000
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video2000

Anyway blu ray is the media not the format try www.videohelp.com ;)
not so true here in the US with NTSC. Total crap when duplicating.

Glad those days are over.

oh, by the way, Wiki is NOT the most reliable source for information, and my German is terrible so I can't read it anyways... :lol:

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stardust wrote:ok why not.

Maybe p*rn is the reason.

But I thought the reason why internet is still running is p*rn over IP :D

And now all over blu ray ??
Yeah, hence the reason why blu-ray, or whatever, will probably only go through about a 5-year lifecycle before something else comes along - like some breakthrough in compressio that allows for faster download of full-length, HD, surround sound movies (or Internet 2 - whichever comes first).

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stardust wrote:Yes the article quoted said blu ray is probably again only intermediate (dead on arrival) since the media future is evolving fast SSD and the NET.
Yup, and what drove the popularity of the internet?
It sure wasn't blogs :)
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stardust wrote:Wasnt it BBS like this ;)
sure, for me, working at JPL way back when everything was text, and email was a novelty, but for the layman, it was the ability to send/receive photos (back in dial-up days), etc. etc.

Then mp3's and low-res streaming came in....

blah, blah, blah...and here we are... :lol:

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