Comments on: Innovation: New Blu-ray standard mandates Internet connectivity (like HD DVD had at launch)

By: Fritz_L

Fritz_L — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:54:33 +0000

Blu ray still has a long way to go be fore it is ready for prime time, perhaps in a few years it will be worth looking at, if it survives that long.
Might be better to just wait this format out …

By: Whiskey

Whiskey — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:30:22 +0000

What are they going to do with the remaining HD-DVD players? Oh wait… I know… Sell them on Pricesmart in LatinAmerica for around 250 a piece. And i have the pic!

If i was Toshiba i would have reoriented it towards backup (It still is a pretty alternative to DVD on any pc, htpc or dvr).

By: Bruzer

Bruzer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:19:35 +0000

Ahhh, that headline on the paper should read “HD-DVD Defeats Blu-ray” the whole thing with the paper was that Truman actually defeated Dewey, and the paper printed the results too early.

http://www.historybuff.com/library/reftruman.html

Pertaining to this article though, like Matt said, this was all part of Blu-ray all along. The issue was they had far more manufactures then HD-DVD and therefore it took longer fro them to work out the specs on how they wanted it implemented.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:14:48 +0000

This has been planned since, like, the beginning of Blu-ray. Sony’s only mistake is not making BD 2.0, 1.0.