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.
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ceilingfanboy @ Jan 7th 2008 6:03PM
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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.