Sony does it again!!

BuZZKilgore

On one table Sony execs proudly displayed two ARs playing early Blu-ray content: The House of Flying Daggers (below). They even had the Blu-ray packaging. So exciting...but WAIT! I went ahead and ejected one of the Blu-ray drives to see my first Blu-ray disc. Instead, I found a crummy, old school DVD+R, complete with the Sharpie-written, House of Flying Daggers. Apparently even Sony can't get its hands on Blu-ray content!

http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/16/11622.aspx

xPaladin

Ok, ok, it's not SWG relevant and I shouldn't reply, but am I the only one ROFLing about the DVD being a copy?

Even if it is a faked story, that part just kills me. With that DRM talk and all.

Rekrul

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Originally posted by BuZZKilgore

On one table Sony execs proudly displayed two ARs playing early Blu-ray content: The House of Flying Daggers (below). They even had the Blu-ray packaging. So exciting...but WAIT! I went ahead and ejected one of the Blu-ray drives to see my first Blu-ray disc. Instead, I found a crummy, old school DVD+R, complete with the Sharpie-written, House of Flying Daggers. Apparently even Sony can't get its hands on Blu-ray content!

http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/16/11622.aspx

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I for one, fail to see any point in all this Blu-ray hype. It's a DVD. Oh, it has higher bandwidth, who cares.

DVDs work in any player, on computer, even in my car stereo now. Not only that, I can put mp3s on them, avi /mpeg movies, watch them in most players, they are extremly widely available in all rental stores.

I must be getting older, or something, but all this hype simply doesn't touch me anymore. Maybe its because there's hardly any movies coming out that would apeal to me. Maybe because I don't want to upgrade all the players, and wait for new issues to be resolved. Maybe I don't want to have some god-forsaken proprietary format forced on me.

This blu-ray strikes me just as when floppies were upgraded from 720k to 1440k. But that was the same format, compatible, and basically if offered a lot. But the blu-ray stuff is just some elitist upgrade, with absolutely no impact on six-pack joe.

What made DVDs succesful? $49.95 5channel dolby/CD+R/+RW/DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/mp3/wmv/wav/ICD/divx supporting players. And if you waited till sales, you got the same, with 5 speakers for $29.95.

Do you see Sony throwing around a proprietary format for peanuts? It might have "better" quality, but do you really care that much about it to pay x2 - x15 the price?

BuZZKilgore

I realize that it's not SWG related but I know we ex-Galaxie players love this kind of stuff.

Elnator

*chuckles*

Blu-Ray is to standard DVD's as BetaMax was to VCR

Which one caught on and is still in use today? 

Why?  Because BetaMAX was a proprietary format.

Care to think what Blue-Ray is?  DASSRIGHT... proprietary...

It'll probably have a very niche market for a while... till people realize that they're paying 2-3x as much for one of those movies as they would for a standard DVD movie.

KenshuAni

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Originally posted by Rekrul

I must be getting older, or something, but all this hype simply doesn't touch me anymore. Maybe its because there's hardly any movies coming out that would apeal to me.

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This comment got me to thinking.

LucasArts seems to want to stick with SOE.  SOE wants to get SWG on PS3.  Sony wants to sell their Blu-Ray on the PS3.

I'm begining to see this forming...

Star Wars Collectors Edition - get all 6 movies in one pack in HIGH DEFINITION available only for Blu-Ray players!  Buy your favorite movies for the 6th time!

Rekrul

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Originally posted by KenshuAni

Originally posted by Rekrul

I must be getting older, or something, but all this hype simply doesn't touch me anymore. Maybe its because there's hardly any movies coming out that would apeal to me.

This comment got me to thinking.

LucasArts seems to want to stick with SOE.  SOE wants to get SWG on PS3.  Sony wants to sell their Blu-Ray on the PS3.

I'm begining to see this forming...

Star Wars Collectors Edition - get all 6 movies in one pack in HIGH DEFINITION available only for Blu-Ray players!  Buy your favorite movies for the 6th time!

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Once again, I feel absolutely positively no need to see the exactly same movies in EXACTLY the same quality. Apart from ep1-3, the 4-6 are old. No new high tech will change that.

And these are 6 movies. Then there's 60000 movies already available on DVDs, for $0.99 - $9.99.

And a few die hard SW fans will not turn the media wars around.

Enigma

moving to off topic

Spathotan

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Originally posted by Rekrul

Originally posted by KenshuAni

Originally posted by Rekrul

I must be getting older, or something, but all this hype simply doesn't touch me anymore. Maybe its because there's hardly any movies coming out that would apeal to me.

This comment got me to thinking.

LucasArts seems to want to stick with SOE.  SOE wants to get SWG on PS3.  Sony wants to sell their Blu-Ray on the PS3.

I'm begining to see this forming...

Star Wars Collectors Edition - get all 6 movies in one pack in HIGH DEFINITION available only for Blu-Ray players!  Buy your favorite movies for the 6th time!

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Once again, I feel absolutely positively no need to see the exactly same movies in EXACTLY the same quality. Apart from ep1-3, the 4-6 are old. No new high tech will change that.

And these are 6 movies. Then there's 60000 movies already available on DVDs, for $0.99 - $9.99.

And a few die hard SW fans will not turn the media wars around.

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Very well said. Sony is literally trying to not only take over the entire home movie industry, but also trying to replace what everybody already has, with or without their consent.