Roll_Out wrote:Blu Ray is unstoppable. It is the only way to go.
Orin_Thomas wrote:Blu-Ray is region encoded. HD-DVD is not. I can play a HD-DVD I purchased anywhere in the world on a player anywhere else in the world. With Blu-Ray I can only play a Blu-Ray disk I purchase only in the places that Sony allows me to play them.
You know how you can get all those cool box sets of Transformers in the UK that you can't get anywhere else? That's the future with Blu-Ray. With HD-DVD, you could order them from the UK and play them wherever the hell you want.
But hey, if you're happy with only being allowed to watch only those products that Sony says you're allowed to watch in your "home region".
Orin_Thomas wrote:It is all about control of your entertainment. Sony wants to make sure that Americans can only source that cool BBC stuff like Life on Mars and Dr Who from Sony Approved American Retailers. Sony wants to make sure that Brits can only source cool American stuff like Battlestar Galactica from Sony Authorized UK retailers.
Now that's fine if you only want to be spoon fed content from your approved Sony region, but as someone who has put up with the insanity of the DVD region system for the last decade in an attempt to watch legally purchased and produced stuff that I can't get in my own region I think doing the same thing with a new format is insanity.
Blu Ray is objectionable because it divides the world up into content regions when the HD-DVD spec shows that such a division is simply not necessary. And when movies in either format look the same on the same TV, why would anyone go with the deliberately freedom limiting technology?
Blitzwing the warrior wrote:Should've gone with the Blu
Wheeljack35 wrote:Maybe there aren't alot of people out there that own HD DVD players
Knightrun wrote:I'm pretty sure all the Blu-fanatics on here are PS3 fanboys. Can't see any other reason to be so hardcore about it. =/
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