Blu-ray versus DVD

*sigh*

here we go again... :p

Sony better come up with a better reason for why I should upgrade than viewing quality alone. High Definition is a natural technological progression. But I don't see why I should pay two or three times the price for that. :confused:

If and when the price comes down to that of DVDs, then I MIGHT consider upgrading. :rolleyes:

BUT all that DRM crap is a serious turn-off. :mad:

Defective by design! :(

Sony... you can kiss my grids!
 
“Blu-ray is twice the price but you get six times better quality,” Claassens said.
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what an idiot
where does this person come up with this number? LOL
resolution is the most overrated aspect of picture quality

even if quality could be be measured in terms of resolution, this number still does not make sense
(1920x1080) / (720x576) = 5
but wait, what do we have here:
(1920x1080) / (720x480) = 6

googled this and got the number 6 from a USA source?
another article with NTSC figures in a PAL region (SA)

believe me, if DVD was 5 times worse than Blu-ray
you would not be able to watch it

ldmelsa out :rolleyes:
 
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Why is BluRay twice the price? It costs the same to make surely?
 
lpvoid said:
Why is BluRay twice the price? It costs the same to make surely?
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Because of research and development costs, once they have covered that the price should gradually decrease. It's like Nintendo who spent more money on reseacsh and development on the Wii than the entire US spent on education that year.

But Blu-ray will always be more expensive because companies who use the technology have to pay royalties to Sony. As far as I'm consernd blu-ray is white elephant.
 
rpm said:
Blu-ray versus DVD
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“When DVDs are played on the new systems people will immediately see an improvement in quality: not true high definition, but better than standard definition, ”
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It's magic! This type of ignorance makes me wanna pull my hair out. That's what happens when the marketing people try to talk tech.
 
briantw said:
It's magic! This type of ignorance makes me wanna pull my hair out. That's what happens when the marketing people try to talk tech.
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Clearly you have not had the pleasure of viewing an upscaled DVD, most new generation DVD players offer this.
 
The #1 crap thing about Bluray is that the filmgrain is so much clearer. It irritates the heck out of me.
 
Genius. said:
Whats quality difference between HD DVD and Blue Ray?
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They about the same in terms of picture quality, but use different technologies to achieve the same result. However, this is purely of academic interest now bearing in mind that HD DVD is officially dead and will no longer be produced.
 
nk1 said:
Clearly you have not had the pleasure of viewing an upscaled DVD, most new generation DVD players offer this.
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I second you on that nk1. As long as your display is native HD, anything of lower resolution is automatically upconverted from whatever resolution it is to HD resolution so it can be displayed on the HD screen. Unfortunately, internal TV scalers are mundane at best, mostly poor. Modern upscaling DVD & Blu-ray players (even pc's) on the other hand generally do a much better job of upconverting the SD material than the TV,resulting in much improved picture quality. In fact, I owned one of the first upconverting players by an established brand (a Samsung which I had imported here myself) about 4 years ago and will swear by it. Nowadays, I only watch movies on my pc's because the software does some incredible things with upconversion & processing - and boy does it make a difference!
 
When DVD's first launched they cost R300 a piece.. It's the manufacturing process that's expensive at first, and the cost of R&D. every single thing comes down in price later in it's lifetime, look at how much DDR2 cost when it was first launched, and xbox, the ps3.

Stop whining and just wait like you've always done.
 
I don't get why I should spend twice the price on a DVD with a better quality pic, it's not like normal DVD is that bad. :confused:
 
pauld said:
I don't get why I should spend twice the price on a DVD with a better quality pic, it's not like normal DVD is that bad. :confused:
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I agree with you, you probably should'nt since you obviously don't own a large HD display, like some of us do! If you did, you'd understand. :)
 
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