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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gilbert @ Jan 7th 2008 5:19PM
Wow, they're just now getting all this stuff?? And Blu-Ray is supposed to be the better product? Funny..
EQC @ Jan 7th 2008 5:41PM
Only fanboys (and of course the supporting/investing companies) ever really said "BluRay is better." The rest of us always knew: BluRay is better for capacity, HD-DVD is better and more complete in terms of the software.
True, BluRay is "winning" -- but winning and better aren't necessarily coupled.
On a completely different note:
The advantages of good software are obvious. Many people don't see too much point in the extra BluRay capacity, though, so here's my thoughts on that:
My hope is that the extra capacity for BluRay will actually lead to things being cheaper in a few circumstances:
1) TV Series' on BluRay needing fewer disks. If a whole season fits on fewer disks, it'll be cheaper to make...and hopefully the savings will get passed on to the consumer. This will work for "HD" TV shows...but I'm also thinking about things like "The Simpsons" -- if they released a DVD quality season on BluRay disks, they could probably get the whole season on one disk. That would be cheaper than 5 DVD's or 2 HD-DVD's, and it'd also be very convenient when you wanted to watch them -- just pop the Season 2 disk in and find your episode instead of having to figure out which disk has the episode you want.
2) "Double Feature" movies -- I'm finally starting to see these on DVD -- 2 or 3 movies in the same genre (or sequals of each other) without extras on one DVD. WalMart has a bunch right now: 2-3 movies that are a few years old on one disk for under $10. More capacity on BluRay means you can fit more movies on one disk if you want to...which bodes well for cheap offerings in the future.
3) Long movies -- others have already pointed out: LOTR extended editions on one disk. woo!
ceilingfanboy @ Jan 7th 2008 6:03PM
@EQC
There are so many things they could do with Blu-Ray that they haven't started doing yet. Not only do I want to see shows that were never released in hi-def put onto one or two discs instead of 5, but, considering the PS3 uses Blu-Ray, they could put anthologies of games on one or two Blu-Ray discs. If they coupled that with extra gameplay, they could create seamless mega games. Can you imagine being able to play through the entire Metal Gear Solid series all at once as if it were one huge game? How about using that possibility to solve the Guitar Hero controller incompatibility issues you have with the PS3. It would be nice to have all of the songs from all of the Guitar Hero games on one disc. In terms of collections being put on less discs, that is probably something we will start to see more of now that Warner is only doing Blu-Ray. It seems as though the reason why some of the seasons of things took up as many discs as they did was because they wanted to give as close to the same experience as they could for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD owners. Therefore, if HD-DVD took 4 discs to fit a season, Blu-Ray also used 4 discs. Thus, doing so would have caused Blu-Ray's seasons to be cheaper without any sacrifices, whereas the only time Warner's Blu-Ray movies were cheaper was when they didn't have a DVD side on them like the HD-DVDs had. I really don't know if you can say that HD-DVD is better as much as you can say more complete, though. The advantages that HD-DVD has over Blu-Ray are all things that can be done with Blu-Ray but just aren't. While HDi may be faster than BD-J, BD-J is more flexible in what it allows the programmer to do. Just give the programmers some time to get used to BD-J and it will probably start running smoother as well.