Over the last year, Blu-ray disc sales have outpaced HD DVD by a 2-1 margin. However, the Blu-ray forces are about to take a beating -- unless they change course and soon. And here's why: With the holidays rapidly approaching, Blu-ray is leaving itself open to a potential knockout punch. If Toshiba can sell a bunch of low-priced HD-A2s, Warner Home Video might reconsider its tilt toward Blu-ray and endorse HD DVD instead.
Unless Blu-ray supporters lower player prices -- and soon -- the studios could be the reason that the format ultimately loses.
Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."
You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
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The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
lolz this is too funny, so there telling use that HD-DVD could kill off Blu-ray this holiday. If a couple of months of HDDVD sales being more than Blu-ray then HD-DVD is dead already
and becuase we are all too certain that Blu-Ray players won't recieve a price drop also..not to mention better exclusives this holiday..HD-DVD..will win..lol..right..not even the mighty Transformers could have turn the tides for the already dead format...
RED IS DEAD..ppl...."I DO BLU"...
Bestbuy is selling the HD-A2 for $99.99 as well as a lot of other outlets. And the cheapest Bluray player is $300 more. The standalone install base will decide the format war. NOT the PS3.
PS3 gave the Bluray movies a nice boost in sales. But the simple fact is that "most" PS3 owners do not buy Bluray movies. If they did HD DVD would already be dead. The standalone players have a higher movie attach rate. These are the consumers that count. It was a nice mask by Sony to include Bluray in the PS3. This was done only to slant the install base to cheat Toshiba.
The primary reason for including Bluray in the PS3 was that Sony could push their agenda...which is winning the "Format War". It is also nice for games, but that is secondary. Is it coincidence that originally the PS3 was bundled with Talledega Nights and now is being bundled with Spiderman 3 on Bluray?? Probably not.
It is kind of funny how all the Sony extremists "want" Bluray to win when all along they have been used in Sony's little chess match with Toshiba.
Wal-Mart this Friday will sell the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player for $98 as a special pre "Black Friday" sale. The announcement comes after Amazon.com, Circuit City and Wal-Mart revealed they would sell the player for $198 during non-promotional periods.
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Well it would take much more than just a winter to kill off blu-ray. There are a heck of a lot more supporters in the BDA versus Toshiba, Microsoft, and a few more. Either way it's this persons ideals, but this format has some legs on it, i feel.