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Boon to the PS3? Warner Bros goes Blu-Ray
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inpHilltr8r
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Someone throw this man a lifebelt, he's drowning!JCBossman said:
So now that Blu-ray has won, I'm surprised I haven't seen any MGS4 to PS3 via Blu-ray add-on now, I was going to speculate and say that with the rumoured Xbox360 Ultimate, MS was trying to woo Konami and Kojima by downgrading there fear with storage format by saying that the HD-DVD could store the game in 1 disc rather than multiple DVD's but after this announcement who knows, Sony may have just calmed the fears of Konami and Square-Enix by assuring them that this event will trigger more PS3 sales, which in turn will trigger more people to buy there exclusives games and it's win-win for both of them.
Edit: Maybe Shane's rumours of MS developing the next-gen console aren't as far-fetched, cuz now Sony has just gained an advantage with their PS3, by advertising more of the Blu-ray like crazy and MS will have to somehow gain an advantage over a Sony who's momentum wave has taken a huge boost with the Warner Bros. announcement.
Edit: Maybe Shane's rumours of MS developing the next-gen console aren't as far-fetched, cuz now Sony has just gained an advantage with their PS3, by advertising more of the Blu-ray like crazy and MS will have to somehow gain an advantage over a Sony who's momentum wave has taken a huge boost with the Warner Bros. announcement.
Chiggs
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itsgreen said:
Okay, well, you've pretty much backpeddled on what I asked you, throwing me the typical "show me one title!" argument that I'm all too sick of seeing/hearing.
But know this: In the future, you will see discs that wouldn't be possible on HD-DVD. Heck, the Kingdom of Heaven BD already is.
GauntletFan
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NolbertoS said:
:lol
Chiggs said:
Did I? Because I thought you didn't understand my comment, and still my comment stands. Just point the title, the simple fact you can't, says enough about the value of those 'better specs'.
Sure for those 12 hours movie benching sessions BD is great. But I have to pee sometimes, why not change a disc halfway
Anyhow BD has won, just like I predicted over 2 years ago.
AltogetherAndrews
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JCBossman said:
One of the many rich benefits of smoking glue and cork, am I right?
Chiggs
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itsgreen said:Sure for those 12 hours movie benching sessions BD is great. But I have to pee sometimes, why not change a disc halfway
Again, completely ignoring the 48mbps vs 36mbps issue. Gosh, I certainly can't think of anything that could make use of that additional bandwidth!
But you're right, it's over...and this squabble does seem rather outdated.
itsgreen said:
Did you not read my post? The part where I clearly said the 50GB Kingdom of Heaven disc is just not possible on HD-DVD?
Pristine_Condition
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JCBossman said:
Is this more FUD on your part, or are you honestly this misinformed? Either way...:lol :lol :lol
The original hard coating for discs, was introduced for CD-ROM. It existed long before a need for caseless Blu-ray.
The original patent for a spin-coated antistatic hard coating for optical discs, the type of coating all Blu-ray coatings is based on, was submitted in 1999.
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5910517-description.html
The tech isn't new, and the process of spin-coating is way, way older than that.
Truespeed
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JCBossman said:
That's the great thing about the hard coating on BD discs. You can buff them with your ass into Like New condition for repair or resale. BTW, HD DVD's are susceptible to all of the same problems as DVD's are so I would be more concerned with that. Oh wait, it doesn't matter anymore.
Arkham said:
lol, ok. i'm sure PS3s are going to fly off shelves now that a movie studio has announced exclusivity for B-R format.
let's ignore the fact that neither format is selling well to being with, and that the majority of people buy HDTVs have no concept of resolution or what either format brings to the table.
Chiggs said:
Thats capacity, not bitrate. Anyhow. Lame discussion. For movies Bluray doesnt have any extra value imo. Your movie does not look significantly better on Bluray than on HDDVD. I don't see the extra value of those 3 extra hours of content on a single disc. Sorry can't. I'll buy you an icecream (if that shuts you up
) when you can sit out 9 hours straight of movie watching.
Chiggs
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itsgreen said:Thats capacity, not bitrate. Anyhow. Lame discussion. For movies Bluray doesnt have any extra value imo. Your movie does not look significantly better on Bluray than on HDDVD. I don't see the extra value of those 3 extra hours of content on a single disc. Sorry can't. I'll buy you an icecream (if that shuts you up
Ice cream will indeed shut me up, but I still think you're being a wee bit disingenous here. I do agree that the movies don't look any different, though.
And I used Kingdom of Heaven because of its length, lossless audio, and 24mbps MPEG2 encode.
Ynos Yrros
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It's both. The higher the bit rate the more capacity is required for a full lenght movie. Kingdom Of Heaven in this encode is not possible to recreate on HD-DVD, there goes your argument.itsgreen said:Thats capacity, not bitrate. Anyhow. Lame discussion. For movies Bluray doesnt have any extra value imo. Your movie does not look significantly better on Bluray than on HDDVD. I don't see the extra value of those 3 extra hours of content on a single disc. Sorry can't. I'll buy you an icecream (if that shuts you up
MirageDwarf
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Chiggs said:
Well, it is that I really don't care about HDDVD or Bluray movie wise. But I do see my arguments as valid points. Sure the extra capacity is nice, but it is just a marginal advantage for movies. Heck we are dealing with multiple dvd's for years, I haven't complained about it. Ever. Games I do though.
Guy LeDouche
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fucking LOLMirageDwarf said:
The only thing I like better about Blu-ray is the multiple lossless tracks on some discs. Just having the option of either TrueHD or PCM is awesome, IMO. I really like HD DVD, -- the Bourne Ultimatum disc is out-fucking-standing, and a prime example of just how good the format can be -- but Blu-ray has really come into its own recently. I just wish people would cut the bullshit and stop acting like they're personally involved in this whole ordeal.
EDIT: And what the fuck is going to happen to player and movie prices? Are they going to go back to where they would have been at this point without competition?
EDIT: And what the fuck is going to happen to player and movie prices? Are they going to go back to where they would have been at this point without competition?
monkeylite
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MirageDwarf said:
:lol
Very nice headline. Exactly what I thought when the news broke.
ZeroTolerance
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Dont stray too far from the Gaming Discussions guys. kthanks
Truespeed
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Remy said:You don't see the extra value of extra content?
Considering we've had to put up with extra SD content the majority of the time due to studio's conforming to the LCD for storage related reasons it will finally be nice to view extra content in HD the way it was intended.
S
Shepherd
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Fucking Warner just cost me $299. Thanks.
Just ordered a PS3
AltogetherAndrews
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ZeroTolerance said:
Does it matter? Can't people just discuss it in OT?
Psychotext
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There's a huge thread there already. :lolAltogetherAndrews said:
Truespeed
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Mojovonio said:
It's still to early. The general public doesn't have a clue about the significance of the Warner announcement. It's not like Toshiba and HD DVD just picked up their toys and left. There's some fight left in them, but they know the end is near. Their best move is to just join the BDA and starting making BD players.
Pai Pai Master
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Mojovonio said:
There's no way this'll have such a large instant effect on PS3 sales. It certainly benefits in the long run, as BD is yet another step closer to securing victory over HD-DVD, but I honestly don't think that many people (30% is a lot, especially over November NPD) will be like "oh hay Warner is BD-exclusives now, imma go buy me a PStripple!"
If anything, we probably won't see the benefit of today's announcement on PS3 sales until Toshiba and the HD-DVD partners give up (later this year).
sonycowboy
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Truespeed said:
He's being facetious.
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