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[SR388]

personally i think he sounds like a paranoid microsoft hating sony fanboy

[sith]

yeah.. tony.. i realize al gore has faults and is a hypocrite.. hell he owns a bunch of tobacco industry businesses, and just voted against legislation to force private jets to carry passengers in a effort to reduce fuel consumption.. i'm sure there is a couple spare seats he could afford to lose on his jumbo jet... but i wrote that sig a long time ago, and i was speaking only about the global climate.. honestly i forgot it was even there.. i suppose it is time to change it.... i got the perfect replacement.

.sith.

[BasicAir]

I've got a few comments to make:

-- I have always liked Michael Bay as a director.
-- I have not and never will watch Transformers (not into that).
-- Why is this observation of his so great and who actually cares?
-- I am loyal to HD-DVD. Even if it fails, I'll still have a player and the 50+ titles I've got.
-- I have never downloaded a movie off the Marketplace. The reason? The same reason I don't rent movies or buy ppv movies on tv: I prefer to buy my movies outright.

If HD-DVD magically died tomorrow and Blu-ray is all that remains, I wouldn't embrace Blu-ray nor MS's download service. I would eventually go with Blu-ray but not until all studios back it and not until the players come under $200. I can afford a $1,000 player if I need to (Note: I know they don't cost that much, but I'm just making a point that I've got lots of money) but right now I'm comfortable with HD-DVD.

There are a few movies released on Blu-ray only that I'd like to have, no doubt. But looking at the positive side of things, I save a few $100/month because those titles aren't on HD-DVD thus I don't buy them. So I have more money in my wallet.

Sigh... Oh well. F-it. The whole "format war" is stupid. Maybe these new dual format HD-DVD and Blu-ray LG players will make both formats winners.

[Tony42077]

QUOTE(Jstraw @ Dec 5 2007, 04:48 AM)

Knowing this, I have a feeling that disposable digital media will be turning silicone alot sooner then we all want to admit.  Welcome to the FUTURE!  

Imagine going to the video store and plugging in your USB Stick to their interface and download your rental.

When you by a movie, it will probably be a cartridge USB interface then a DVD Disc.

I admit that digital downloads will eventual win the war of rentals, but I don't see the optical disc going away anytime in the near future. You have to factor in the costs also. It's much cheaper to produce an optical disc than it is to produce flash memory. There will always be a brick & mortar for movies to be sold and rented, the same as there will always be pirates to find a way around any protection that the industry can think up. Name one long-standing copy protection that hasn't been cracked. It seems that it would be much easier to copy and pirate something that is already in a digital magnetized format.

Just my thoughts on it.... I still watch standard DVDs. Gotta get to bed, got a lot of hunting and gathering to do tomorrow.

[troyBORG]

QUOTE(Xbox-Scene @ Dec 4 2007, 08:10 PM)

just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray

Blu-Ray being better?  BULL ****!

Blu-Ray Sucks!  Expensive as crap, if I want to watch a HD movie that is only on Blue Ray I can usually just find it was a Divx or mkv rip and just get it that way.  Other then that, i'll just stick with my HD-DVD!

[screwedupsmitty]

The votes are in, Michael Bay's an Idiot
Plus this shit is from blu-ray.com, another big surprise that sony fanboys  would put up trash like this, if you want a real laugh go to http://www.blu-ra y.com/news/?id=722 and read the comments.(might wanna take out that space)

Smitty

[djtonic]

QUOTE(HughHef1986 @ Dec 5 2007, 04:02 AM)

That would be great.  Gates said this a few years back on MSNBC.  Maybe not so great for backwoods country dwellers, but for NYers with FIOS it would work great.  Plus all those people who would probably pay a decent subscription fee for some sort of rental system and not worry about mailing movies back and forth, getting the wrong movie, not having the movie in stock, and getting a scratched copy.  Not only that it would cost less to acquire the movies.  I think NetFlix is doing something like this right now if I am correct, but probably not at a Hi-Def level of quality.  If it moved to High-Def and everyones bandwidth got better, I could only see this being a positive thing.  Anyways just my opinion, maybe I am wrong?

yeah..theyre streaming now...Netflix is. I don't personally believe that digital downloads will ever replace actual media.  People like and want tangible goods...to feel and touch is to "own"  B+M commerce still makes up over 90% of consumer sales, digital distribution would take too many profits away from all the stores that carry/rent movies.
and the speculation that MS wants both formats to loose....Meh, just that speculation!  
As far as Michelle boy, he is a tard..but I liked "the island" a lot.

But..like i said.  To feel and touch is to "own"  

~Dj~

[edwinmcdunlap]

While digital media downloads are a great thing, I don't think I'd ever want to switch completely. I like actually having a professionally made physical copy of whatever it is.

And with DRM and junk like that being so rampant these days, who knows what limitations we'll have on digital downloads in the future?

[Roy2001]

20GB per movie to download, not likely to be practical in next 5 years.

He has no idea about technology and just believe in some rumor. I have to laugh

[the_nerdy]

I think we are in the day and age where we can say, screw discs!!!

Why not just make everything SD CARDS?
No scratches,  Load time would be very quick.

The PS3's (except 40 GB model) has the SD CARD SLOT.
So taht would work.

I would say if Sony or Microsft would go that route, they would be far better off.

Just an Idea.

BUt blueray will never die, and microsoft does pay to support HD DVD, so if Micorosft didn't do that, who would really win the format war.

The thing is, they are working on a better compression method for online downloads of video. Otherwise, we'd all be really screwed.


Who knows what the next console generation has to offer with something like that.

[Foe-hammer]

I laugh every time he opens his mouth.

[Gohan5052]

QUOTE(miggidy @ Dec 4 2007, 06:50 PM)

Oh Michael Michael Michael, you're a mediocre Hollywood director who just made a fortune with the Transformers film with Spielberg foreseeing the entire production.
Don't forget what happened to the Wachowski brothers....

This dude is over his head as if his opinion meant anything.
If anyone has an agenda it's him, every time he opens his mouth it's to praise Blu-Ray.
If anything we the public would rather get our HD fix disk free

maybe a lil off topic but what happened to the Wachowski brothers? i loved the matrix movies and v for vendetta

[Arch0n]

Strap on yer tin-foil hats, gentlemen. Michael is receiving transmissions from planet Sonytron again

[faithlesssoul]

superior Blu Ray how screw sony

[jaynigs]

Are you all blind?

Someone mentioned that HD DVD was supposedly killing Blu Ray in sales etc, what cloud are you all on?

I know this is xbox scene, and microsoft have an addon for HD DVD but stop kiddingy yourselves!

http://www.betanews....rope/1196182088

In Europe Blu Ray outsales HD DVD 3-1.
In Usa Blu Ray Outsales HD DVD 2-1.

How in anyones imagination is it killing blu ray?

HD DVD WILL FAIL

The sooner you realise this, the less it will hurt.