[ale] OT: Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD

[James Sumners]

I'm an audio freak myself. But a poor one :(

I agree with the wait and see approach. There is no way I will invest
a large sum of money in any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player right now. The
market is too volatile. Even buying a player capable of playing both
formats is pushing it in my opinion. But it would be the only option
for me if I were going to buy right now.

In response to HD-DVD being cracked and Blu-Ray not. You might want to
take a look at "alt.binaries.hdtv", particularly
"alt.binaries.hdtv.x264". There are _plenty_ of postings where the
source material comes from Blu-Ray discs.

On 6/18/07, Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com> wrote:
> you know, I'm something of an AV/HT buff (have 2 DLPs & a few $K worth of
> audio eq) but I have totally stayed on the sidelines for this.  not so much
> for fear of picking the wrong horse, just shear/utter disgust w/the studios
> (DRM, writing/buying laws, re-buying titles AGAIN, etc.)...  I'm going to
> hold out as long as I can (will-power wise) but I'm afraid if I ever hear a
> title w/a good audio track delivered lossless to a good system I'm going to
> totally cave (I'm probably more of an audio buff than video).  a coworker
> (w/HD-DVD) has about convinced me that I can almost rationalize it w/Netflix
> vs. buying but I'm still holding out for now.
>
> FWIW, I don't see how HD-DVD could possibly not win - the manufacturing
> costs are way less & the process is far more flexible.  the only prayer I
> see blueray having is if HD-DVD's DRM is totally broken & blueray's survives
> in which case the studios won't care about the mfg cost & will just pass it
> along.  if they are able to stop the bleeding of HD's DRM then greed will
> inevitably lead them to the (significantly) cheaper medium.
>
> just my 2c/never 2bHO...


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