Only fanboys (and of course the supporting/investing companies) ever really said "BluRay is better." The rest of us always knew: BluRay is better for capacity, HD-DVD is better and more complete in terms of the software.
True, BluRay is "winning" -- but winning and better aren't necessarily coupled.
On a completely different note: The advantages of good software are obvious. Many people don't see too much point in the extra BluRay capacity, though, so here's my thoughts on that:
My hope is that the extra capacity for BluRay will actually lead to things being cheaper in a few circumstances:
1) TV Series' on BluRay needing fewer disks. If a whole season fits on fewer disks, it'll be cheaper to make...and hopefully the savings will get passed on to the consumer. This will work for "HD" TV shows...but I'm also thinking about things like "The Simpsons" -- if they released a DVD quality season on BluRay disks, they could probably get the whole season on one disk. That would be cheaper than 5 DVD's or 2 HD-DVD's, and it'd also be very convenient when you wanted to watch them -- just pop the Season 2 disk in and find your episode instead of having to figure out which disk has the episode you want.
2) "Double Feature" movies -- I'm finally starting to see these on DVD -- 2 or 3 movies in the same genre (or sequals of each other) without extras on one DVD. WalMart has a bunch right now: 2-3 movies that are a few years old on one disk for under $10. More capacity on BluRay means you can fit more movies on one disk if you want to...which bodes well for cheap offerings in the future.
3) Long movies -- others have already pointed out: LOTR extended editions on one disk. woo!
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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Only fanboys (and of course the supporting/investing companies) ever really said "BluRay is better." The rest of us always knew: BluRay is better for capacity, HD-DVD is better and more complete in terms of the software.
True, BluRay is "winning" -- but winning and better aren't necessarily coupled.
On a completely different note:
The advantages of good software are obvious. Many people don't see too much point in the extra BluRay capacity, though, so here's my thoughts on that:
My hope is that the extra capacity for BluRay will actually lead to things being cheaper in a few circumstances:
1) TV Series' on BluRay needing fewer disks. If a whole season fits on fewer disks, it'll be cheaper to make...and hopefully the savings will get passed on to the consumer. This will work for "HD" TV shows...but I'm also thinking about things like "The Simpsons" -- if they released a DVD quality season on BluRay disks, they could probably get the whole season on one disk. That would be cheaper than 5 DVD's or 2 HD-DVD's, and it'd also be very convenient when you wanted to watch them -- just pop the Season 2 disk in and find your episode instead of having to figure out which disk has the episode you want.
2) "Double Feature" movies -- I'm finally starting to see these on DVD -- 2 or 3 movies in the same genre (or sequals of each other) without extras on one DVD. WalMart has a bunch right now: 2-3 movies that are a few years old on one disk for under $10. More capacity on BluRay means you can fit more movies on one disk if you want to...which bodes well for cheap offerings in the future.
3) Long movies -- others have already pointed out: LOTR extended editions on one disk. woo!