Do not hurt me for starting this thread. :D
For those of you who are not in the know, this May Blu-ray discs and Blu-ray disc players will be solded here in the U.S. This is the new high-definition video that is going to take the place of DVD and VHS.
So I hope that everone looks on this as good news.
I haven't read up on this much, and I have a question. Will the blu-ray player play existing DVDs? I've got a fairly large collection, and I don't want to be replacing them all...
Whoops - never mind. Just read the FAQ. Whew...
With all those big number/power changes, I'm assuming some of the muscle's going toward the picture quality, but reading that I saw zero discussion of it.
Some people can't tell the difference between VHS and DVD....I can, but I'm just trying to imagine how ridiculously good-looking and clear and hi-res it'd have to be to reel me in as a consumer.
I don't like change and I don't like feeling like I can't latch on to new technologies even if I like them for fear of their replacement or of them being a fad. I just got used to DVDs a couple years ago, and we have a huge tape collection. I hope it doesn't turn into a visuals-quality equivalent of digital cameras...."Watch movies at home! Now at 3 megapixels instead of 2!" It's absurd to make baby steps over short periods of time when it comes to this kind of technology, in my opinion. (And before anyone says anything I own computers for an average of 5 or 6 years =)
blue ray is not the actual winner. there are two formats in question that will be duking it out for the actual predecessor of DVDs
HD-DVDs being the alternative.
Some movie companies back one format and others back another for what they will produce. Soo, there is no real "good news" until one of them becomes the standard and whatnot.
I think there are some issues with blue ray that make them unfriendly to users and blue ray supposedly will be more expensive.
"who wouldn't want to make stuff for me? I'm awesome." -Bloo
the biggest push for Blu Ray would come from Sony and the PS3 which would use this format. But at present there is nothing that says they will be out in the short term.
so Blu Ray at this point is lagging behind rather than being the winner. Both the discs are nearly the same in capacity and price.
Kind of like the DVD vs. Divx DVD thing of a few years back. Or VHS and Beta. Or 8-track and cassette...
Time to wait and watch again, I suppose...
Yeah, I think I'm going to wait till the dust settles to see which is the winning format. Like VHS and Beta, it probably won't be which is the better format, but who had the better marketing team. I'm leaning towards Blu-ray over HD-DVD cause it has a cooler name.
So uncompressed HD resolution on a 50 gig DVD. So no more two disk collectors editions?
As for quality, I think it'll be a big difference if you play a regualar DVD next to a Blu-ray on a true HD TV. DVD's aren't that much clearer than VHS if at all. They are just more conveniant where you can chapter ahead instead of fast forwarding. I don't know the exact resulution, but DVDs are at around 640 I think, versus 1080 HD resolution. Anyway, it should be an interesting battle. My money is on what ever side Disney picks.
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720x480 I think is DVD...either way though...can I -see- the difference? There are fourteen thousand TVs out there that say HDTV, whether it's plasma, LCD, projection, they all for the most part just look like enormous regular TVs. Nothing really compares to the Smithsonian exhibit.
Isn't it around 720 x 486?
I don't know; Disney was in the Divx DVD camp a few years back, and look how that turned out... ;)
right now, a decent pc can churn out 640 ntsc at 30fps,
which is a boon to content creators like us animators.
but with hd, i pretty much think the pc would be back
to crawling again.
does that mean that video is now being returned to its
elite only-for-the-big-guys status again?
although 3D can use the added res,
pure 2D animation doesn't need that high a resolution.
is video becoming unreachable again?
Don't worry. All shall be well.
The big difference between VHS and DVD is the tape that is used in VHS. With VHS the plastic streatches, the oxid develops flaws so after a few passes through the video player you have a really bad piece of cinema. DVD does not have those problems, so as long as it is not used as a coaster or other wise abused, you will get the same quailty every time it is played.
The big difference between Blu-ray disc and HD-DVD is the sizes, Blu-ray holds something like 9 hours of video. The news paper article had like five really good point for Blu-ray and only two for HD-DVD. There was something about the information read rate but I can not remember the details.
I am only going to buy just a few titles in Blu-ray and as for now, I will not buy any more DVD moves. I do not have money to burn.
i wont even touch Blu Ray until there is resolution on the dominant format or players tht play both forms.
Until them im sticking to DVD. i got no problems with DVD.
to me this is good that i can store more data on a disc but bejesus, how long is it going to take to write one of these discs? 50GB of data? like 8 hours or so i reckon with current DVD RW Speeds.