I'm sorry but your logic doesn't hold up since both use this technique to drive sales - Examples of 7 to 15 disc Blu-ray bundles found using a simple google search:
15 free discs
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/...
10 free discs
2.7M Blu-ray player owners have bought 4M discs and 750K HD DVD owners have bought 2.5M discs... So this proves that HD DVD owners buy over 2 times more discs than Blu-ray owners unless... maybe all those PS3 owners aren't actually buying discs?!
You see, all the companies spin the numbers trying to make themselves look good.
Well free movies is a practice commonly used by both camps and I am not disputing it. What I find disturbing is that these pack-ins are possibly being counted towards sales when I had always understood that they were not. The dire implication here is that a great number of PS3s are being bought by people that have no interest in HD at all yet the pack-ins are counted as sales, and hence artificially inflating the Blu-ray numbers. With the heavy use of BOGO sales and PS3 pack-ins, if true, ...
I was thinking the same thing! It is pretty suspicious that Open Season would ever outsell Spiderman 3, Ratatouille, Transformers or Shrek though...
I bought a 500Gb back-up drive for $90. This burner is $526, a single blank is $40 and you can only write to the blank ONCE! You could buy six 500Gb back-up drives (3 terabytes) for $25 less than buying the burner and ONE 50Gb blank. The days of optical disc back-up are loooooooong dead.
Btw, it takes less than 15 minutes to back up 50Gb on my $90 drive.
I think they may have meant 'for around £100 in the US' especially since it is a UK publication (£100 is approx. $200). Not sure though... Gizmodo is usually pretty good for these things...
Okay, seriously, where are you getting this 78% from because it sounds like it may be coming from your @ss and when I say 'it sounds like it may', I mean 'it is'.
Nielson has North America sitting at 3M disc sales Blu-ray to 2M disc sales HD DVD.
http://formatwarcentral.com...
The BDA says that they have sold 1M disc...
If Blu-ray were truly winning on it's merits then this would be the perfect opportunity for the BDA to solidly cement itself as the leader but Blu-ray is being propped up by PS3 owners, many (obviously not all) of whom are Blu-ray proponents because Blu-ray was bundled in with their console, not because they made a conscious decision to choose Blu-ray over HD DVD in the first place. I might add that new owners, the ones that waited for cheaper prices, are less likely to adopt the more expens...
This is a great new feature which only starts to tap into the possibilities.
Here's a way of applying this feature:
Warner hosts several Community Viewings, one with the director, one with J.K. Rowling, one with each of the main actors and they interactively live blog through the movie. That would be pretty cool!
Do you have a link that can prove that the difference is even perceptible?
What do you think of the 122 Blu-ray titles that use 1992 developed Dolby Digital audio CODEC?
What about the 156 Blu-ray titles that use the MPEG 2 video CODEC of which 122 are also 25Gb discs?
209 Blu-ray releases are only on 25GB discs, are they better or worse than 30Gb HD DVDs?
http://www.blu-raysta...
Seems like a good idea on paper but probably would only turn into a chearleader camp. Just look at the comments on this thread.
Apparently older players can play the TL51 discs. No mention about the 360 but if the 1st gen HD-A1 can do it...
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/dvd...
As far as Tranformers having compressed sound, well the disc received universal acclaim for it's sound so ask yourself this. Do you believe that you can tell the difference when industry proffessionals can't? I mean, at this point, listenin...
Wil4hire, you are one to talk about console allegances when you so clearly show your colours when you assume HD DVD supporters are 'xbots'.
I own stand alone players for both formats. I don't think either format is going anywhere but I do think that HD DVD is the better solution for home theatre. Am I an 'xbot'?
Let me mirror your sentiment in terms you can understand. The 360 has over twice the install base and sells more than twice the software. By your log...
1. HDi wasn't 'forced' on the DVD forum. I'm sure MS, like ANY company, leveraged as much sway as they could but in the end it was VOTED in. That's the whole point of the forum! You don't think Sony tried to 'force' the forum to adopt Blu-ray over HD DVD? The DVD forum VOTED for HD DVD too.
2. HD DVD titles are mostly VC-1 because licensing is cheaper and the licensing terms were finalized earlier (in good time for the HD DVD launch). At first glance, the licensing looks ...
That's the first page to Home Media Magazine. There are navigation buttons at the top. This magazine is God at AVS forums.
Way to add some depth to the site, GIJeff. Maybe next time you can make some mud pies too.
Alright, so this year someone buys the A2 for $100
Next year the A3 for $100
year after the A4 for $80
following year the A5 for $70
one more year the A6 for $60
So for $410 he buys a new player every year for 5 years running and he spends about as much as it costs to buy the cheapest Blu-ray player today.
price is a strong motivator for consumers. Don't underestimate it.
Actually, Siemens is the king of hardware followed by Samsung, Hitatchi, Panasonic and finally in fifth place Sony. Atleast according to Fortune Magazine.
http://money.cnn.com/magazi...
Really, LG and Toshiba aren't far behind Sony either.
I completely agree with you Kholinar, this article is pretty weak in premise.