Comments on: The State of Blu-Ray is NOT GOOD

By: smellar

smellar — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:28:59 +0000

Much as seeing Sony go down for the second time in a format war would be amusing, I frankly don’t much care which format succeeds. I’m just waiting for one of them to emerge as the standard so we can get on with buying hardware while feeling confident that we haven’t picked the one which isn’t going to have long-term content support from the studios.

@iokara: It’s true that Australia likes to be an early adopter of technology. However the fact that Bluray is more prevalent in Aus has nothing to do with it being the ‘best’ format, and everything to do with our country’s vendors arbitrarily deciding to sell one format exclusively and not the other. In truth the format which succeeds globally will probably be the one with the largest and most astute marketing campaign behind it, not the one with the best features or back-end technology.

By: Sharp announces first Blu-Ray player with Java

Sharp announces first Blu-Ray player with Java — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:51:36 +0000

[...] it was mentioned in our previous Blu-Ray Status article, all upcoming Blu-Ray players will now come with their own version of Java which will [...]

By: iorkara

iorkara — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:51:52 +0000

Well, i can confirm that Aussies love blu-ray and its not just me saying that. Here in AUS likes to have the best when it comes to Gadgets and so on.

By: Reshadat

Reshadat — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:12:29 +0000

The Blu-ray is not very much popular in india,nor is HDTV.Simply because of its high cost here!I agree with capturesteve that mempile can be a better option for holding large amount of data.Check out his article!

By: capturesteve

capturesteve — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:41:49 +0000

My self i have had no need for blueray or HD DVD yet, but that is because i don’t feel the need too watch my videos in high definition. I am interested in the large amount of data each of them can hold, this would be useful too me for backups, yet i don’t have a writer for either.
I also want to point out a new type of disk that might someday take the market, made by a startup called mempile, here’s an article talking about it.
http://blog.spocore.com/?p=25

By: pointless

pointless — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:24:47 +0000

HD DVD has 51GB TL discs waiting in the wings, and they are supposed to be compatible with all existing players. Toshiba claims that no studio has requested such a large capacity disc yet, however – there is just no demand for it.

There is supposedly a 1.5x bitrate increase to go with it, which would match Blu-Ray.

Who knows if they would suffer the poor replication efficiency levels that plague Blu-Ray.

By: John

John — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Since most of the blu ray players today are Playstation 3’s, it kind of makes the two first points a bit moot. The manufacturing problems, i guess arised from test runs of the 50gb discs. No way is a company with any business sense going to run those discs into production. Still though, with HD uptake not being that great at the moment, the Blu Ray camp still has plenty of time to get themselves sorted. Personally im going to go for Blu Ray, just due to the amount of things i can stick onto the disk. It also looks to be the one leading the HD format war at the moment. It also has a catchy name, always great for marketing :)