Comments on: Format Wars: Viva la Spin

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:35:44 +0000

Greg, thanks for that, not bad at all.

By: Greg Pecknold

Greg Pecknold — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:27:58 +0000

Thought you might like to see this comparison video of the difference between DVD and HD DVD.

It’s on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S5CZpNd904

By: Paul_A/V

Paul_A/V — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:07:53 +0000

“Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD will eventually be surpassed by some form of hard-drive storage or higher storage optical medium.”

I agree. In 5 years holographic storage will be a viable consumer product that can support lossless VIDEO and audio compression.

Hitachi is already investing in this technology.

By: westcott

westcott — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:52:20 +0000

I think we are missing another piece to this puzzle and that is the failure to release any real Blockbusters by either camp. Not only a failure to release them, but to discuss why or when! I am confident there are several people like me who do not want to invest in either technology, no matter what the video capacity or video quality superiority, until we can all be assured that we can get all our favorite titles for our HD player, no matter the player.

My own theory is that until ICT tokens are enforced via HDCP compliant connections, we will not see any movie titles of any monetary significance to the studios. This possible explanation for the lack of noteworthy title releases hurts both the consumers and the launch of these two technologies. I do not know too many people that rushed out to get an HD player to watch Charlies Angels!

I think many more of us would be tempted to buy a US$500 HD player if I could get the LOTR HD collection or any other personal favorite to go with it.

Trying to completly safeguard content is a senseless waste of money by the mfgs and the studios and is only hampering the adoption of new technologies.

By: Ben Hobbs

Ben Hobbs — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:58:42 +0000

Wonder how long it is until one of the big hollywood movie firms bang a satellite into orbit, we can’t be that far away from the technology to have any movie we want beamed to us from outer space.

I still dont think VOD or streaming is an option for the near future, people tend to watch movies as an instant gratifaction rather than planning what they want to watch tommorow night. Also the speeds needed to do this are still practically out of our reach, especially if all of a sudden everyon in your state was downloading movies overnight.

Movies on USB Flash drives with movie’s stored on them would be a good one, I mean there probably isn’t a computer, portable media player or other viewing device which can’t interact with USB.

By: B.Greenway

B.Greenway — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:08:08 +0000

Possibly Kevin, but I wasn’t so much thinking of physical delivery as much as VOD or downloaded content.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:19:40 +0000

Good point – HDD prices have dropped to $0.33 – $0.50 per GB recently. Maybe I could get my movie delivered to me on a 50GB hard drive that I plugged into the USB port on an HTPC. Hmmm…

By: PhillyRampage

PhillyRampage — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:55:40 +0000

FYI, They’ve been throwing around that word to describe PS3 also.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:26:53 +0000

Good point – HDD prices have dropped to $0.33 – $0.50 per GB recently. Maybe I could get my movie delivered to me on a 50GB hard drive that I plugged into the USB port on an HTPC. Hmmm…