Are you kidding? The extent of this persons ignorance sets a new low in this conversation. A few early BD releases were poorly done, so they say "at launch Blu-ray's picture quality was horrible"!?!? Yea, that makes sense. At launch TV looked pretty bad, guess I'll throw out my 1080p set just to spite them.
Then she moves on to the 'its a better format because Paramount (and dreamworks, like they're a different shop or something) dumped blu-ray'. Yawn, lets look at the FACTS again. Paramount was selling substantially more blu-ray discs when Toshiba or Microsoft gave them a $100 million bribe to stop making blu-ray; because it was the ONLY WAY HDVD was going to survive.
Then the best argument a mediocre stopgap format: "It's good enough". Would you buy a car, or anything else if the salesperson told you it was good enough!?!?! Good enough for what? As I've said before, when CD came out we thought it was huge, when DVD came out, it was immense. Now we carry more storage than that on a key chain. A little future proofing might be better than something that's 'good enough'.
I encourage every person to listen to the arguments, HDVD certainly hit the ground running everything they offer was there at the start. Evey argument you hear will be based on that fact, and the claim that it's good enough. Blu-Ray is as good now, and has the future proofing to still be a viable format in another 10 years.
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@HD Purist
You need to read this as well!!
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07314/832733-96.stm?cmpid=business.xml
"@HD Purist
You need to read this as well!!
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07314/832733-96.stm?cmpid=business.xml"
Are you kidding? The extent of this persons ignorance sets a new low in this conversation. A few early BD releases were poorly done, so they say "at launch Blu-ray's picture quality was horrible"!?!? Yea, that makes sense. At launch TV looked pretty bad, guess I'll throw out my 1080p set just to spite them.
Then she moves on to the 'its a better format because Paramount (and dreamworks, like they're a different shop or something) dumped blu-ray'. Yawn, lets look at the FACTS again. Paramount was selling substantially more blu-ray discs when Toshiba or Microsoft gave them a $100 million bribe to stop making blu-ray; because it was the ONLY WAY HDVD was going to survive.
Then the best argument a mediocre stopgap format: "It's good enough". Would you buy a car, or anything else if the salesperson told you it was good enough!?!?! Good enough for what? As I've said before, when CD came out we thought it was huge, when DVD came out, it was immense. Now we carry more storage than that on a key chain. A little future proofing might be better than something that's 'good enough'.
I encourage every person to listen to the arguments, HDVD certainly hit the ground running everything they offer was there at the start. Evey argument you hear will be based on that fact, and the claim that it's good enough. Blu-Ray is as good now, and has the future proofing to still be a viable format in another 10 years.