Rodimist wrote:Metal wrote:Rodimust wrote:
First of all. A bluRay disc holds more which means they can have more features. The production companies like WB's chose not to put these features on. The ethernet is not a problem for a PS3. This whole PiP garbage that you are ranting about is foolish and unnecessary. If I went to see transformers in IMAX and they had a PiP showing the green screen action on a smaller screen, I'd be pissed. Why would you waste your time looking at that? I'm sorry you felt I was insinuating 300 is better picture quality on bluRay. I was just stating that there is nothing wrong with the bluRay version. These HD extras are a little excessive. The important ones will always be on both.
Secondly, 65% of 300's sales were (you guessed it) bluRay. Obviously I'm not the only person not impressed with the 12 hours you boast of.
When it comes to transformers, 1080p IS necessary. I'm not looking for green screens or downloadable content (I have a computer for that). I want the visual affects to be the best they can be. I can't help, but be disappointed that the HD version can only be experienced through one kind of player. I was looking forward to finally being able to purchase a system that can play Transformers AND give me satisfaction elsewhere as a gamer. A Toshiba player is not going to serve me any use. When was the last time you ever wanted anything made by Toshiba?
Transformers and Iron Man were the only movies I was looking forward to owning an HD version of. I just don't think an 1080i X-box 360 with a clunky add on (both with dvd slots making it a waste of space) is an option for the money.
Blue ray is in no way superior to HD-DVD in actually A/V resolution. They are both capable of the same 1080P, and they are both capable of the same level of audio quality. Any limitation is in the hardware being used not the media format. Microsfot went with 1080i for their player addon because its cheaper and realistically the bulk of the HD TVs out there right now only go up that high. Thats changing rapidly but when the drive was planned 1080i was barely a blip in the market and 1080p wasn't even out yet.
True with HD-DVD if you want a game system and a player then your stuck with a slight video downgrade, but by and large standalone HD-DVD players are cheaper then Blue Ray players, and should be becoming even more so by Christmas when the prices start dropping across the board. Blue Ray however can not at this point afford to cut prices because its all Sony controlled and they can't afford to do it. The PS3 drop to help its flagging sales hurt them enough.
As for the extra space on Blue Ray, not a single disc released yet for the format has actually taken advantage of that simply because they can't. Blue Ray is still a work in progress and actually isn't capable yet of several features that have been standard to HD-DVD since release.. Regardless of extras at 1080p there hasn't been a movie made that fills even an HD-DVD disc. Not to say their won't be, because I'm sure there will, not to mention as TVs get bigger high resolutions will eventually start cropping up in home media. But HD-DVD has just as much potential to evolve for those as Blue Ray, and though Blue Ray has the size advantage now its far behind in standardization and ease/cost effectiveness in production. For the movie industry HD-DVD is a much cheaper and use friendly option.
You can complain all you like that HD-DVD sucks and call out the merits of Blue Ray, but the fact is they two formats aren't nearly as different as you think and other then size Blue Ray currently has no inherent advantages over HD-DVD. The winner of this contest has not yet been decided.
Now all you people can go back to complaining about how your console doesn't play the HD format you want and I'll go enjoy my Wii. It plays no games, as a lower native resolution, and has a funny controller, but I still find it to be the most fun of all the next gen consoles and see no reason to buy either of the other two.
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