Blu-ray: Dead by 2012

smokey said:
@ Kage

I can get a BDr for 112E NOW. In Serbia (ffs). Next year expect the proce to drop to atleast 60-70E for an entry level model. Just coz we live in the middle of fecking nowhere, the tip of the bloody world and everyhting is more expensive and arrives late (till we invent portals and such trekkie stuff). Again, going by your logic... don;t judge the world by SA standards. Most of the people I know have put up money for BDrs just coz of the space and with each BDr sold, the discs are geting cheaper and cheaper. 12-18 months - mark my words....
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Thats cool and dandy but 12-18 mths in the IT world are equal to 18 human years. :p
Lets see what happens, at the end of the day I dont really care if the Ps3 has a BD drive, I prefer a stand alone hooked up to the system downstairs and one hooked up to my PC.
At R2000 I'll buy one, but only then. :)

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What is 112E??? Is this Euros?
 
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Kage said:
Thats cool and dandy but 12-18 mths in the IT world are equal to 18 human years. :p
Lets see what happens, at the end of the day I dont really care if the Ps3 has a BD drive, I prefer a stand alone hooked up to the system downstairs and one hooked up to my PC.
At R2000 I'll buy one, but only then. :)

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What is 112E??? Is this Euros?
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yeah its euros :) sorry for that.

oh and away from "entertainment centres" in general. stuff the ps3, bd is more than just a unique selling point for an overpriced console.

the point is, i personally moved to dvdwriters because of the larger space. even if i had a 500gb flash disk - it would basically be a glorified portable harddrive. not something i could store away stuff i will hardly ever use (huge digital camera (10megapixel) pics being a perfectly legal and logical example)

would you really want to carry around a cartload of your holiday and drunken snaps just ebcause you have 500gb dangling on your keychain? also, remember, movies are now 4-8 gigs compressed , so if you want to keep a couple of good movies, you need a couple of dvds as opposed to one bd disc. forget about price (it will come down) and think of convenience.

and what has the ps3 got to do with this thread? we all know youre an xbox fanboi - we're talking about a digital storage medium, not a games console...


PS: wouldnt buy it for 2000 bucks. my mate bought one for slightly under 950 south african rands. thats my sweet price point.
 
if blu-ray makes it to 2012 that means it was one of the latest/last technologies before the end of the world.

blu-ray: +1
 
smokey said:
yeah its euros :) sorry for that.

oh and away from "entertainment centres" in general. stuff the ps3, bd is more than just a unique selling point for an overpriced console.

the point is, i personally moved to dvdwriters because of the larger space. even if i had a 500gb flash disk - it would basically be a glorified portable harddrive. not something i could store away stuff i will hardly ever use (huge digital camera (10megapixel) pics being a perfectly legal and logical example)

would you really want to carry around a cartload of your holiday and drunken snaps just ebcause you have 500gb dangling on your keychain? also, remember, movies are now 4-8 gigs compressed , so if you want to keep a couple of good movies, you need a couple of dvds as opposed to one bd disc. forget about price (it will come down) and think of convenience.

and what has the ps3 got to do with this thread? we all know youre an xbox fanboi - we're talking about a digital storage medium, not a games console...


PS: wouldnt buy it for 2000 bucks. my mate bought one for slightly under 950 south african rands. thats my sweet price point.
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Sorry the PS3 thing is a reaction, normally BD and PS3 is mentioned in the same sentence. ;)
Where did your mate get a BD writer for R1000??? Cheapest BD writer is R3000 on Take2.
 
Keeper said:
if blu-ray makes it to 2012 that means it was one of the latest/last technologies before the end of the world.

blu-ray: +1
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Ahahaha, that not fair... the world is ending next month :D
 
doobiwan said:
and I'm sorry to burst Feo's bubble: You don't know anything that you haven't been told by some overhyped sales troll.
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Sorry dude but I've received help from arf lots of times in threads related to HD video and he definitely knows what he's talking about, you gotta give credit where it's due.
 
doobiwan said:
I'd rather you don't try put words in my mouth
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I don't have to... you can try refute any of the points I made, seemed pretty consistent with your arguments in this thread alone.

. Quality, cost, competition are all relevant in an argument and you failure to acknowledge that only serves to highlight your shallow mindedness.
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Gee and here I see the highest quality at a competitive price in comparison to the alternatives.... which are what exactly? Craply converted rips or HD-lite TV recordings on torrent downloads?

I'm sorry I had to google for you, but you obviously need someone to show you how. You claim to know so much about HD and film quality yet you lack a fundamental understanding of it most basic concepts.
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lol. You really are an nasty little fanboy troll aren't you? It's only your delusions of grandeur that make you irritating. Go back to your Xbox and let the adults talk. I've got more than 10 years experience of actually working with compressed video and more than three years with HD. While you were jerking off to GoW, I was making a living out of this stuff.

As for the R35000 TV - that's because that was the cost of the Rig I did the comparison on at the time.
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So you're admitting that you actually have no real info and are busking wildly?

Oh, it's not just attitude - I am smarter than you ;)
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:D ...in your little head maybe...
 
arf9999 said:
rubber, glue yadda yadda
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:D ...in your little head maybe...
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Come on that's the best you can come up with? You were doing so much better yesterday, try less sugar in your coffee for more bitterness ;)

Perhaps, as is often the case, your experience is exactly the problem. If you've got your nose stuck in it day in and day out the most minor thing can seem like a breakthrough or a revelation but in fact it means very little to everyone else.
 
doobiwan said:
As a complete derail if you need to put in a "€" the key code is 0128.

In other words hold down "ALT" and type 0128.

Similarly for "£" the code is 0163.
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ok... we can add wildly knowlegdable wednesdays to the tags at the bottom...
 
Its all a mindset. BD and HD storage will be history. Online rentals will become the norm in a few years. And besides SA is moving into HD territory as far as broadcasting is concerned, I guess web bowser capability as well.
 
i find renting a film over the internet whether to a pc or through my xbox360 video store much more convenient than physically going to a blockbuster store which is miles away from my house. There is also no problem of the store being all out of the popular films. You can choose what you want and get on with other things while it downloads (which is pretty quick over a 20mb line).

But saying that, if it comes to buying, i want something physical like a disc in my hand :-)
 
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