Microsoft says Blu-Ray is no good. But what do you think?
Blu-Ray rules! - 5 (23.8%) I bought a PS3 because it has Blu-Ray. - 7 (33.3 %) The Xbox 360 NEEDS Blu-Ray. - 3 (14.2 %) Digital downloads are the future. - 3 (14.2 %) Blu-Ray is too expensive for me. - 2 (9.52 %) AVI and Divx is the real future. - 1 (4.76 %)
It’s a mobile world now, and as the internet speeds up, I think it’s all about PC based formats - AVI, Divx, Xvid, MKV, MP4 - that sort of thing.
It doesn’t have to be digital downloads, though. There’s a hige market for these formats that’s not really being addressed (mostly because the film companies don’t like them - just like the music industry disliked MP3). If these videos were being sold on MicroSD cards in the shops, or from Amazon, I could play them on my smartphone, take them home and plug them into my X360, or media player, or laptop or any number of things. Can’t do that with an optical disk.
The format of the future, for me, is one I can transfer to whichever device I want to play it one - PC, living room TV, phone, PDA; whatever. And Microsoft’s Video Store doesn’t address that issue any more than Blu-Ray does, so I’ve got say I believe they’re both onto a loosing concept.
DD is the future...but right now we are far off from it...HD is the present, the only way to get this is through Blu-ray...DD will be good once the internet companies get there act together and once they (movie companies) figure out a logical way of handling DD...I want to own my movies not rent them...
I don’t care what the article about this says about the days of a physical format being over. It’s not and will probably never be I have high speed internet and if I was going to download a movie (not stream one) it will take me about 1hr. or 2 tops but that doesn’t even compare to the 15 min. it takes me to go to the store. They would have to make true high speed available nation wide for the days of the physical format to be over. Not too mention the fact that a lot of people don’t trust a hard disk drive if you look it up they do go bad. As the tv progresses so will the size of HD movies and I don’t believe that it is going to catch up anytime soon.
Really, if Microsoft wants to step out of the ordinary of Blue-Ray this and Blue-Ray that, Microsoft should look into Ultra High Definition Video (UHDV). Extremely better than Blue-Ray but takes a large amount of room. After seeing the size of the hard drive in the original Xbox, this should not be to big of a problem.
DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION IS NOT THE FUTURE IT’S ALREAY HERE HOWEVER YOU LOSE ALOT OF QUALITY IF YOU COMPARE SIDE BY SIDE BLU-RAY TO A STREAMED OR DOWNLOADED FLICK THE PHYSICAL FORMAT WINS EVERYTIME NOT ONLY IS THE PIC BETTER BUT THE SOUND TOO
The future is a bit far off... right now we are in the future (DVDs, motion sensing, HDD in games, etc.) HD TV is just starting to get common. I see now point in pushing a high-def movie disc (or whatever you call it) when most people don’t have HD TVs or blu-ray players. Blu-ray is heading in the same direction as betamax... to ahead of it’s time. Blu-Ray should have been introduced in the Ps4 or something like that, HD-DVD shoul dhave been before blu-ray and we should have then ’evolved’ into blu-ray. At least that’s my opinion. As for digital downloads.... it all depends on how fast your internet is... that determines whether you will most likely support it or not.
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It’s a mobile world now, and as the internet speeds up, I think it’s all about PC based formats - AVI, Divx, Xvid, MKV, MP4 - that sort of thing.
It doesn’t have to be digital downloads, though. There’s a hige market for these formats that’s not really being addressed (mostly because the film companies don’t like them - just like the music industry disliked MP3). If these videos were being sold on MicroSD cards in the shops, or from Amazon, I could play them on my smartphone, take them home and plug them into my X360, or media player, or laptop or any number of things. Can’t do that with an optical disk.
The format of the future, for me, is one I can transfer to whichever device I want to play it one - PC, living room TV, phone, PDA; whatever. And Microsoft’s Video Store doesn’t address that issue any more than Blu-Ray does, so I’ve got say I believe they’re both onto a loosing concept.