Postchronicle: Blu-ray is starting to become mainstream, thanks to lower player prices and increasing numbers of titles on store shelves. And it'll undoubtedly have a few years in the sunshine, just as DVD did.
But Blu-ray is still a disc-based technology, with moving parts that can wear out, and the discs themselves can be affected by fingerprints that can prevent them from playing properly - as I discovered over the Christmas season when one of my discs froze in the middle of a chapter. Fortunately, once it was cleaned the disc returned to its high def glory, but the point was made.
Next generations of high definition playback could eliminate these problems and it wouldn't surprise me if they end up coming from new generations of the same type of smart cards you may be using today, in your notebook PC, cell phone, digital camera, media player or whatever.
Right now, such cards don't have the storage capacity to compete with Blu-ray's 50 gigabytes, but upping the card ante is happening already - and wouldn't you know there's more than one solution on the horizon and they'll undoubtedly compete with each other.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
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A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
No
"But Blu-ray is still a disc-based technology, with moving parts that can wear out, and the discs themselves can be affected by fingerprints that can prevent them from playing properly - as I discovered over the Christmas season when one of my discs froze in the middle of a chapter. Fortunately, once it was cleaned the disc returned to its high def glory, but the point was made."
wow, so blu-ray sucks because you can't keep your fingers off from the reading surface of the disc?
good stuff
Apparently we're basically going back to the floppy disk...whaaaat?!?
I want the next main format after Blu-Ray to be those data cubes like in the movie version of Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy...
:D
*falls over laughing*
my answer is no... but after bluray the next one that will take over would be digital downloads... but that would probably be 8 to 10 years from now.