zombieflanders - we see who the most "ignorant Sony fan boy" is... right now HD-DVD is just better and cheaper... period... regardless of what studios said they would line up with what format there are nearly twice as many discs on HD-DVD right now than Blu-Ray... Why are you so convinced that Blu-Ray will be better? Samsung isn't the kind of company that just puts out crap... they make some of the best TVs in the business... why does the Samsung Blu-Ray player look worse than the Toshiba player and cost twice as much?
Do you work for a movie studio? Do you really want the extra protection of BD+? That is what the studios want... any format that can provide better protection for their property... that is why there are more studios in the Blu-Ray camp right now. That is the only "tech" that the studios care about with these new formats. If you can't see that then you are just ignorant... if they were concerned about real technology they would question Blu-Ray and the fact that they still don't have reliable dual layer discs... and the fact that they are using an ancient codec on these discs right now. You don't need more space for movies... there is plenty of space on an HD-DVD so why pay all the extra cost? WHY PAY THE EXTRA COST?
Oh and about the Disney movies not looking better... if you think people will run out and get an HD disc player to watch Bambi in HD your nuts... there are plenty of old movies that benefit from the higher resolution but you can make the solid black lines and solid fill colors of the disney animated movies as high-def as you want and they still are not going to look any better. HD discs are here so we can see the quality that the studios put into these movies... you just can't get that on standard DVD right now.
Don't be such a fanboy... wake up and realize what Blu-Ray is all about and why so many studios are on that side. They want there property protected... it has nothing to do with brining better content to the consumer... SO WHY PAY TWICE AS MUCH FOR THAT EXTRA PROTECTION FOR THE STUDIO.
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zombieflanders - we see who the most "ignorant Sony fan boy" is... right now HD-DVD is just better and cheaper... period... regardless of what studios said they would line up with what format there are nearly twice as many discs on HD-DVD right now than Blu-Ray... Why are you so convinced that Blu-Ray will be better? Samsung isn't the kind of company that just puts out crap... they make some of the best TVs in the business... why does the Samsung Blu-Ray player look worse than the Toshiba player and cost twice as much?
Do you work for a movie studio? Do you really want the extra protection of BD+? That is what the studios want... any format that can provide better protection for their property... that is why there are more studios in the Blu-Ray camp right now. That is the only "tech" that the studios care about with these new formats. If you can't see that then you are just ignorant... if they were concerned about real technology they would question Blu-Ray and the fact that they still don't have reliable dual layer discs... and the fact that they are using an ancient codec on these discs right now. You don't need more space for movies... there is plenty of space on an HD-DVD so why pay all the extra cost? WHY PAY THE EXTRA COST?
Oh and about the Disney movies not looking better... if you think people will run out and get an HD disc player to watch Bambi in HD your nuts... there are plenty of old movies that benefit from the higher resolution but you can make the solid black lines and solid fill colors of the disney animated movies as high-def as you want and they still are not going to look any better. HD discs are here so we can see the quality that the studios put into these movies... you just can't get that on standard DVD right now.
Don't be such a fanboy... wake up and realize what Blu-Ray is all about and why so many studios are on that side. They want there property protected... it has nothing to do with brining better content to the consumer... SO WHY PAY TWICE AS MUCH FOR THAT EXTRA PROTECTION FOR THE STUDIO.