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1. Comment - Dialog: The final format war

   (Feb 25, 2008 - 7:48 AM)

   As many are against Microsoft. And Microsoft is one of the biggest groups pushing for HD Downlaods to hopefully try and force HDi down our throats a second time.
   
   Seriously, is brand bias the biggest reason to dismiss a quality product? There are loads of other companies in the BDA. Panasonic even owns more patents for Blu-ray than Sony does.
   
   Who cares?

2. Comment - Dialog: The final format war

   (Feb 23, 2008 - 11:52 PM)

   Blu-ray has the advantage here. It is a growing format, and gaining in adoption rate. DVD is slowing in its growth, and is expected to begin to drop. HD VOD is an untested alternative, and not yet in the market in any way meaningful to the average consumer.
   
   Blu-ray adoption by the average consumer is much closer than that of downloads or VOD. Now that HDTVs are in more and more homes, and combined with the death of HD DVD, Blu-ray is poised for massive adoption in the coming months and years.
   
   As VOD has a 0% adoption to present, Blu-ray's lead is extremely daunting. VOD will require an adoption rate many times greater than Blu-ray if it is to stand a chance.
   
   DVD's days are already numbered.

3. Comment - Dialog: The final format war

   (Feb 23, 2008 - 7:14 PM)

   VOD needs to kill Blu-ray if it EVER wants to be seen as viable. If Blu-ray takes off and more and more people have it in their homes, VOD will find itself a losing proposition.
   
   VOD isn't here yet in any meaningful way. When it is ready to be seen in the home(say 2 years) its image quality will be little better than an upconverted DVD, perhaps less. When compared with Blu-ray it will seem extremely poor, and no-where near good enough.
   
   VOD must kill Blu-ray NOW, and keep the majority of customers from seeing what real High Definition can be. An educated customer is VODs biggest obstacle to adoption.
   
   VOD will not have the quality due to limits in bandwidth and storage. VODs will be highly compressed, and lacking any kind of meaningful features. If the customer has come to expect the quality and features Blu-ray offers, VOD will fail.
   
   Seen on a 46" HDTV, flaws become immediately apparent. Blu-ray is custom made for HDTVs and boasts excellent image for screens up to 150". VOD cannot compete with this type of quality. Their only hope is to kill it before too many people come to understand what quality is.
   
   Look for more and more articles boasting the convenience of VOD over Blu-ray, despite VOD not yet existing or being ready for mass adoption. VOD MUST create a customer demand for itself, and create a bias against Blu-ray, and it must do it now.
   
   In two years if they haven't halted Blu-ray's growth, it will already be too late.

4. Comment - HD DVD and Blu-ray: Toward an Endgame

   (Sep 28, 2007 - 11:20 PM)

   "Just get the LG player that supports both formats and be done with it ;)"
   
   I know you are being humorous with this comment, but I still want to respond seriously.
   
   I get that concept. If I could have found a dual player in my area that was under $900 I probably would have. There are still one or two titles on Blu-ray I would have liked to be able to play. For right now I'll save the $650 difference from the dual player, and wait until Blu-Ray comes down a lot in price. I'll buy a separate Blu-ray when it drops in price, and be further ahead.
   The point is, I only paid $250 bucks and I already have beautiful HD movies to enjoy on my screen. Though I do admit I probably would have bought a Blu-ray machine IF it had a better looking picture than HD. Somehow I would have justified the $550 price tag if that had been the case.
   Seriously though, a dual player at a greater cost than buying separately both the Blu-ray AND HD-DVD players. I could never justify that. I do agree with your concept though. And I stand corrected if there is an LG Player at $550 or less. If there is, then I didn't find it for sale in my area.

5. Comment - HD DVD and Blu-ray: Toward an Endgame

   (Sep 28, 2007 - 11:03 PM)

   "- If you have a TV with a native resolution of 1920x1080 it will display that 1080i input progressively anyways"
   
   Thanks Hokuspokus,
   
   I was wondering why I didn't see a difference in the 1080i and 1080p inputs. Makes me wonder how this industry gets away with it. Now I have a few obnoxiously opinionated sales-people to re-educate : )