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A hd dvd.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:huh? ps3 will be able to play regular dvd's.o'dium wrote:Yes, but again, thats a DVD film. The PS3 cant play them because it stuck to some odd format, but will probably release a player like the 360 will have.Dave wrote:I'm sure a lot of people would like to use their xbox or PS3 to play HD content (read: not video games). 100 gigs or whatever doesn't go far in that case...
let it go man... I did+JuggerNaut+ wrote:rofl what?o'dium wrote:Hold on...
If sony shunted HDDVD in favour of blu-ray, then why would sony themselves release a plug in HD DVD player...?
Thats exactly what i just said well done. Which is why the only way PS3 will be able to watch it, is with a third party device.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:not sure what you're on about with hd dvd because the PS3, and Sony in particular, will not have anything to do with it.
most of the movie studios back both formats. your point is moot.o'dium wrote:Thats exactly what i just said well done. Which is why the only way PS3 will be able to watch it, is with a third party device.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:not sure what you're on about with hd dvd because the PS3, and Sony in particular, will not have anything to do with it.
Off topic:+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
most of the movie studios back both formats. your point is moot.
the majority has never been early adopters. who cares. they'll come around eventually, it's only a matter of time.Tormentius wrote:Off topic:+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
most of the movie studios back both formats. your point is moot.
How many normal people do you think will be interested in wading through 3 formats (HD-DVD, Blu-ray, and standard DVD) at the video store to rent a movie? IMO, the majority of the consumer market aren't early adopters and this format fiasco is going to piss a lot of people off.
who said anything about it being more beneficial?K-mart Shopper wrote:So how will having a HD-DVD drive hooked up to a 360 be more beneficial than a standalone player?
Consumers will "come around" when the industry pulls their collective heads out of their ass and decide on a format. Remember that the average folks don't necessarily buy into tech just because its new, shiny, and companies are pushing it. We saw this with laserdiscs and minidiscs already.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
the majority has never been early adopters. who cares. they'll come around eventually, it's only a matter of time.
Not really. The average consumer is going to be confused by choosing between three formats when buying or renting a movie. You saw how long it took for people to shift from tape to CD and from VHS to DVD and neither of those involved a choice of multiple formats (while both held more gains for consumers). IMO (and the opinion of many from what I've read), both formats will be a flop until one is decided on.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:we've already gone over this. again, most of the studios are doing both, the "war" is no longer an issue with universal players.
moot argument.
technically not more beneficial, but it is cheaper innitK-mart Shopper wrote:So how will having a HD-DVD drive hooked up to a 360 be more beneficial than a standalone player?
which is what?+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i guess we'll wait and see. i'll be getting what i want, that's what counts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax#Th ... of_BetamaxThe VHS format's defeat of the Betamax format became a classic marketing case study, now identified with the verbal phrase "to Betamax", wherein a proprietary technology format is overwhelmed in the market by a format allowing multiple, competing, licensed manufacturers, as in: "Apple Betamaxed themselves out of the PC market." Sony's confidence in its ability to dictate the industry standard backfired when JVC made the tactical decision to engage in open sharing of its VHS technology. JVC sacrificed substantial potential earnings by going the open sharing route, but that decision ultimately won the standards war. By 1984, forty companies utilized the VHS format in comparison with Betamax's twelve. Sony finally conceded defeat in 1988 when it too began producing VHS recorders.
Sources at Hewlett Packard and other industry groups claim that Microsoft and Intel are misleading consumers about the Blu-Ray Disc format and offering bonuses to PC retailers to support HD-DVD over Blu-Ray. [3] [4] Blu-Ray also receives support from some cinema companies, and is slated to be the standard media format for the PlayStation 3. The failure to include HD-DVD support in the Xbox 360 has been widely criticized in the press, although a HD-DVD drive will be sold as an external accessory in the future. [5] [6] [7] [8]
but thats because vcds and cdis had the same physical size no?MKJ wrote:also we had the cdi/vcd thing, and the .. uh.. vcd and something else-cd.. yet the players were universal within 2 months
and hd dvd and blu-ray do not?Chupacabra wrote:but thats because vcds and cdis had the same physical size no?MKJ wrote:also we had the cdi/vcd thing, and the .. uh.. vcd and something else-cd.. yet the players were universal within 2 months