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Originally Posted by djhsecondnature  Ultimately this was not an article to discuss the life and death of Blu-Ray, just simply a place to vent that I just find the constant barrage of people making such bold comments without any real knowledge of how things will pan out, a tad annoying. If we were not in a recession, then you could probably predict with a reasonable amount of acceptance, but with the changing climate at the moment, people are just wildly guessing to make a story and no-one really knows. |
Half the major population never will know a thing. You talk anything tech wise and usally it is their goes the marbles.
As for Blu-Ray in general I find it funny in ways how they went to the movie field. About mid 2000 I first heard and was able to actully see the first few Blu-Ray discs made. The great thing is they were the huge thing to replace cds to store data on. This was back when we really did not have over say a 150 - 200gb HDD(Hard Disk Drive) and yet they were pretty high priced as well. Anyway it was going to be a great way to back up almost everything on your hdd on a single disc. I just find it funny the whole into movies. Sure HD quality video with audio can be pretty large, but do we really need this for a Blu-Ray disc. If you compress the file in correct formats it really does not matter. I mean you can compress it into something such as compressed motion jpeg you really can not tell to much of a differents. As for audio compression can be bad but really it still comes all back down to format and how many times you edit the file.
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Originally Posted by tuuttuut Hell it was the same with the videotapes and the new DVD's. Not alot of people had DVD players when they first came out. |
No one ever hardly gets the best when it first comes out. Mainly because of the price tag, but you do not just jump into something to see it fail. Look at what happened to laser disc.