Who's jumping ship to Blu-Ray?

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

Andy

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:44:47 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
wrote:

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

By which time, as another poster pointed out, we may all have 20MB/sec
broadband and have forgotten all about those quaint old BlockBuster
and music stores. How much longer before we all wear WiFi 'HUDSpecs',
and pick up the latest news and films by satellite downlink direct to
our ViewPods?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:44:47 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
wrote:

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

By which time, as another poster pointed out, we may all have 20MB/sec
broadband and have forgotten all about those quaint old BlockBuster
and music stores. How much longer before we all wear WiFi 'HUDSpecs',
and pick up the latest news and films by satellite downlink direct to
our ViewPods?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:44:47 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
wrote:

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is
a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

By which time, as another poster pointed out, we may all have 20MB/sec
broadband and have forgotten all about those quaint old BlockBuster
and music stores. How much longer before we all wear WiFi 'HUDSpecs',
and pick up the latest news and films by satellite downlink direct to
our ViewPods?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

I thought this was an interesting and quite funny article from the BBC
today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3673262.stm

Might sum up a few things that have been said even though its not directly
related...

Andy

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:44:47 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
wrote:

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is
a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

By which time, as another poster pointed out, we may all have 20MB/sec
broadband and have forgotten all about those quaint old BlockBuster
and music stores. How much longer before we all wear WiFi 'HUDSpecs',
and pick up the latest news and films by satellite downlink direct to
our ViewPods?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

I thought this was an interesting and quite funny article from the BBC
today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3673262.stm

Might sum up a few things that have been said even though its not directly
related...

Andy

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:57:55 +0100, Andy Pandy wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:44:47 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
wrote:

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is
a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

By which time, as another poster pointed out, we may all have 20MB/sec
broadband and have forgotten all about those quaint old BlockBuster
and music stores. How much longer before we all wear WiFi 'HUDSpecs',
and pick up the latest news and films by satellite downlink direct to
our ViewPods?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

I thought this was an interesting and quite funny article from the BBC
today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3673262.stm

Might sum up a few things that have been said even though its not directly
related...

The only thing missing was the credit card slot so you could pay all
those DRM fees everytime you view something you thought you owned

--
Dave

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:57:55 +0100, Andy Pandy wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:44:47 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
wrote:

Richard Dewsbery wrote:

Then there's the problem of
persuading people to swap from one format to anpther

And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me. I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is
a
huge improvement over VHS. I'm inclined to suspect that 9gb is enough for
most folk though, and Blu-Ray is going to be a niche format for years,
selling in similar volumes to DVD Audio and SACD discs probably.

By which time, as another poster pointed out, we may all have 20MB/sec
broadband and have forgotten all about those quaint old BlockBuster
and music stores. How much longer before we all wear WiFi 'HUDSpecs',
and pick up the latest news and films by satellite downlink direct to
our ViewPods?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

I thought this was an interesting and quite funny article from the BBC
today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3673262.stm

Might sum up a few things that have been said even though its not directly
related...

The only thing missing was the credit card slot so you could pay all
those DRM fees everytime you view something you thought you owned

--
Dave

Hello all

There's a good article in the September 2004 edition of Wide Screen
Review on the current state of play of the HD optical disc battle.

Money is going to dictate which format is launched - Blue-ray DVD and
HD DVD being the protagonist and as yet the movie industry is quite
happy to eek out more profits from DVD knowing whichever HD format
wins will make it even more money in a few years.

Best regards

Joe

PS Andy F Batter - you cant have seen HD as yet

Hello all

There's a good article in the September 2004 edition of Wide Screen
Review on the current state of play of the HD optical disc battle.

Money is going to dictate which format is launched - Blue-ray DVD and
HD DVD being the protagonist and as yet the movie industry is quite
happy to eek out more profits from DVD knowing whichever HD format
wins will make it even more money in a few years.

Best regards

Joe

PS Andy F Batter - you cant have seen HD as yet

"Andy F Batter" wrote in message ...
And I think they've got a problem there. I consider myself far more
interested than most in achieving excellence in my AV viewing, but DVD is
good enough for me.

Weird. I've hardly bought any DVDs of movies since I upgraded my PC to
be able to play HD video... DVDs in a tiny little window in one corner
of the screen (or scaled up by about a factor of three to full-screen)
look awful in comparison.

I fear that if I'm happy with the quality of the
current standard, then the uptake of the new format by the public at large
is going to be very slow.

Possibly, but if HD DVD players also play current DVDs and have an
option for an SD output from HD disks, that's not such a problem...
you can buy HD DVDs and watch them on a crappy SD TV.

As you say CD offered a huge improvement over vinyl, and similarly DVD is a
huge improvement over VHS.

And HD is a huge improvement over current DVDs.

Mark