I hate it when people talk from their ass.

October 10th, 2007 at 11:47 am

heh blu ray wont win because the PS3 is technically a flop. the ONLY place it is selling well is in Japan and thats a small market globally compared to North America and Europe. Ps3 has limited inferior online game support, a handful of games (most of which were out on the 360 months before), a larger price tag. Published sales for the PS3 are down on expectations. Way down, hence the drop in price. Sony is becoming desperate, and has the smell of defeat all over it. I have both consoles so no one can call me biased, but one thing i know for sure is which one i spend the most time on and it isnt PS3. They have nothing that competes with Live and now with the recently released Halo3, you can see the PS3 slip even further. Rip

or maybe the real fact said by microsoft it self that the red ring of death has cost them now in the massive millions to fix for free might i add than they will make o but they get some back cuzz u actually pay for xboxlive plus i do think japan has what like 7 billion people there compared to the 300million or whatever in north america and europe so small bit of the market huh and one more thing i had a 360 and got rid of it thank u fuck up microsoft on 3 red rings for me never had a prob with ps3 and home will blow away xbox live lol

Progressive scan makes a BiG difference! I mean, it did back in the day when 480p made 480i look like… well i’m sure you guys remember.

I’m just prepping myself until i can get that 1080p HDTV. 1080p is the future until someone comes out with the Gamma-Ray disc player with 5043p, heh.

Shame the average customer doesn’t know that much about HD.

p.s. Sony is really the nazi’s ran by Adolf Hitler

I own both an X-Box 360 and a PS3 and both consoles are fantastic. However, when people start saying that PS3 is a 600$ paperweight, I must say that the statement is completely ludicrous. The PS3 only came out in North America on 11/17/2006. Basically, about 3 months ago. You can’t possibly conceive that Sony can produce the same amount of games that Microsoft did for X-Box 360, in 3 months. The X-Box 360 console has been out for almost 2 years and has had the opportunity to produce a large amount of games. Give the PS3 time to do the same and the scales will tip again towards the side of the PS3.

Now, this whole format war is getting pretty much out of hand, but let’s look closely at what has occured within a 16 month period.

HD DVD was outselling Blu Ray during the year of 2006. Now let us examine why.

HD DVD had the leg up during that year because more movies were being released in that format and the HD DVD players had already been produced, giving the public the ability to appreciate the new technology. Universal, which is the ONLY principal supporter of this format, began to release old blockbuster movies such as, “The Fast and the Furisous”, “Aeon Flux”, “The Mummy”, etc.. These movies allowed the public to enter electronic stores and view these incredible pieces of technology display a vibrant and detailed picture on a HDTV. Now, during that year, Sony, started to develop and market their product, the Blu Ray disc. Now let us look at the Blu Ray disc technology.

The Blu Ray disc technology, comparatively, is better than the HD DVD. You can store more information, which allows for better viewing on your HDTV. I did a comparison between the HD DVD version of “The Departed”, “Sleepy Hollow” and “Superman Returns” and the Blu Ray version of “The Departed”, “Sleepy Hollow” and “Superman Returns” and there was a significant difference between these two formats regarding the picture qulality and clarity. I own a Sony Bravia HDTV, with a 1080i picture projection, and with the HD DVD, in many instances of the movies, I wasn’t really impressed with the colour and the clarity. Don’t get me wrong, it looked better than regular DVD pixelling, but nothing to brag about. Then I watched the movies on Blu Ray, and WOW………what a difference. The picture, the colour, the clarity and the sound, all of these features were better than the HD DVD counterpart by tenfold. Then I started researching to try and figure out why there was such a noticeable difference between these 2 formats and this is what I found. With Blu Ray, the technology allows the studio to input more information. Such information can be colour shematics, pixell clarity, audio definition and so on and so forth. Therefore, the Blu Ray disc will give you the maximum details output that the film has to offer in both sound and picture because it has more of a storage capacity. Unfortunately, the HD DVD doesn’t have as much capacity. That is what I mean by, “we should be looking at the technology”. I know that there are MANY people out there who hate and despise Sony. Whatever their reasons are, I will respect them. I also know that there are many people who have looked at Sony’s previous attempts to make their products the “mainstream” product to use and have failed, such as Betamax, 8-track, the PSP movies etc.. But let us not only look at their failures, but at their successes as well. The CD was a Sony invention back in 1969 and gained success along with Philips back in 1980. Betamax failed, but Sony introduced the VCR technology to the world. In additon to that, Sony’s technology is not something that should be discriminated against. Look at the PS and PS2. These gaming consoles gave Ninteno a run for it’s money back in the 1990’s. Then the PS2 came out and it was virtually unstoppable regarding the sales aspect. Microsoft came out with the X-Box, but even though it gave the PS2 a run for it’s money, it didn’t surpass it. Now, though, the X-Box 360 is in more homes, has more games and has been exposed to the public for a longer time. The HD DVD add on helps with the HD DVD sales, but the add on is still 199.99$. All together, the system and the add on are equivalent to the price of the PS3. The PS3 needs time to get to the top of the mountain again. And it will. The console is great, the picture and sound quality are amazing and the games will just keep on getting better. And also keep in mind, when the PS3 was introduced on 11/17/06 to North America (specifically in Canada, since I will quote the Canadian stats for the release of the product), they were sold out within a week and were very hard to find to purchase after that. The only way that they could’ve been purchased were only online via US merchants and the conversion would cost more than if bought in a Canadian electronics store like Future Shop. Only as of late have the stores been able to stock up on the consoles and even in that regard, they are selling them at a quick rate.

In addition, Blu Ray movies have exploded into the mainstream. You have Sony (Columbia), 20th Century Fox, Disney, Buena Vista, Touchstone, Paramount, Warner Bros., Miramax, LionsGate, MGM and the Weinstein Company, as the MAJOR backers of the Blu Ray technology. HD DVD has Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., and the Weinstein company. Now, which technology has more support regarding the movie studios? It’s not difficult to see which one has more support. And there are a number of other supporters for the Blu Ray as well as for the HD DVD technology. But, when looking at the support that Blu Ray has, it’s hard not to think that Blu Ray will win in the end.

And to make a comment about the Porn Industry’s influence on the format war………..Many people are saying that it is VHS vs. Betamax all over again. Betamax lost because they wouldn’t allow porn to use their technology and in additon to that, their technology was too expensive for them to use back in the 1980’s. But it is now 2007. And so many things have changed since the 1980’s. Especially the manner in which we gather and research information. The invention which has helped us with that is………..tatatada………..drum roll please………….”The Internet”. Ever since the inception and utilization of the internet, the Porn Industry has seen sales fall for their VHS and DVD movies and visitation to their adult content websites rise, rise and rise again. People download now and pay less to join these sites than it is to buy a DVD. And, starting very soon, the Porn Industry will start displaying their interent content in High Definition anyway. And will be giving more access to other sites with the same definiton quality. Consumers are purchasing computers with LCD screens which can display the picture quality in high definition as well. People are spending more money on Home Theatre systems for regular movies and leaving porn on their computers to be viewed in the privacy of their own studies/rooms. So, by stating that porn will be the decision maker in the format war is veering towards the wrong direction. It was the decision maker in the 1980’s, but, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of things have changed in 27 years. The adult film industry has evovled with the times. For profit and less money spent, the Internet is the current life blood of porn. Not to mention pay per view.

In conclusion to this, I hope that I have provided enough info to explain why I feel that Blu Ray will win the format war. Not to take away anything from the HD DVD realm, but I think that by the end of the year, with the massive amount of movie titles which will be available on Blu Ray and the drop in prices for both the PS3 and Blu Ray players, the consumers will finally realize that Blu Ray is not only the next step for high definition movie watching, but also the next step of evolution for technology.