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Originally Posted by fartfly
no shit. it blows HD awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay .... bye HD. it's been real
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Both support the compression so there is absolutely no difference between them.
The specs aren't even finished yet. The first generation players for Blu-ray will not work in 6 months. And standalone players won't be able to be upgraded so you'll need to buy a new one every 6 months just to get the latest features. And stand alone players take longer to load the disc. Pirates 3 took 7 minutes on my cousins stand alone player. But only 10 seconds in his PS3.
Old HD players are and should always be backwards compatible.
Sony taking control of this is a bad idea.
It's fucked that people's only concerns are prices. Instead of Sony's inability to make consumer friendly products. Beta went to shit because Sony controlled it all. I own several sony components and none of them work with each other. I have a universal remote that works on everything EXCEPT my sony components.
I sold my VX2000 because Sony is so stupid. All other media uses powder lubricants where Sony uses oil based lubes so if you put anything other than a sony tape in a VX2000 you run the risk of gumming up the heads.. which I did several times before I sold it. And yes I realize I have the same problem with my panasonic, but you have a wider range of media to use. I grab almost anything and use it. With Sony you're limited to sony, or run the risk of gumming up your shit.
40 gig PS3 players won't play older PS games where a 60 gig will. Sony is shit.
And all their power supplies. Don't even get me started. They don't follow any standards so if you lose or fuck up like me and loan out your DSR-11 deck and don't get the power supply back, then what happens is you can't just go to an electronic store and get a power supply like every other electronic device.
The PSP uses a 5 volt power supply, the DSR-11 uses a 12 volt but the actual adapter size is odd, making both of those components hard to buy power supplies for.
It's like each department of Sony refuses to communicate with the other departments.
But none of this matters. The real race is between media distribution. Digital download vs. disk.
I am against bluray, but I know that's a losing battle because in the end.. everyone is a moron, and they just want cheaper disks.