Posted on 06/17/2007 10:29:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Time to upgrade :)”
Yeah, I probably should. I don’t watch a whole lotta TV, am probably more often on the computer.
Actually, wish I’d get back to reading books like I used to do. I lived for 8 years without TV (and no computer too) some years ago, and think I enjoyed life better then! LOL
Wish I could live without it all again, but so far haven’t been able to do it—or rather have not tried again.
They will probably work if you have the right stuff!
I am perfectly happy with my 8-track, it will be around longer than a cassette!
I just threw mine away and upgraded to the cassettes. The player kept eating my tapes........... LOL!
Is Blue-Ray made by only one company?
God, don’t you know, its Bush/Cheney and HALIBURTON!!!!
Movie income is not enough to absorb the PS3 costs for too long.
The diode drove up price. Because of price the PS3 is a distant third in the console wars. Despite solid PS2 performance, the games division lost almost two billion dollars last year. That drove all of Sony into the red last quarter, dropping yearly profits a whopping 1.3 billion from last year, almost 70%.
The outlook looks good to me though, as they've updated the PS3 online to work out some bad initial bugs, and a price drop this year might boost sales. They need some killer games though. The chicken/egg problem and hard development is slowing developer uptake.
I may just get one next year, who knows. Then I'll end up in the Blu-Ray camp.
You seem to be the guy that knows your stuff.
As someone who does care about region codes and PAL and NTSC ( I travel a bit ) -
I would appreciate knowing if these Blue Ray and High Def machines will play all region codes as well as on both PAL and NTSC TVs. Thanks for your help.
I'm not an expert, so don't take my word for anything without verifying it ... but my understanding is that the various HD standards are standards unto themselves, and don't rely on either NTSC or PAL. In a quick search of players sold on Amazon, I couldn't find any Blu-Ray or HD-DVD players whose descriptions referred to NTSC or PAL, or to DVD regions.
What I know indirectly, from online friends who live overseas, is that dual-standard VCRs and multi-region DVD players are quite common in most places outside the US, and they're not that expensive or hard to find in the US if you look. Most Americans don't bother, so the main audience for them is folks who are into niche stuff like anime or martial arts flicks.
A friend who used to work in the movie business explained to me the rationale behind DVD regions. Not everyone has the big movie season at the same time -- all the big summer blockbusters in the US can come out months later in countries where the audience peaks in December. So DVDs were region-encoded so that you couldn't ship in discs from the US before the movie opened in theaters in Hong Kong.
But multi-region DVD players, hackable DVD players, and fast enough Internet connections to make movies downloadable pretty much made the region structure obsolete not long after it was adopted. I wouldn't be surprised if the next-generation players don't even bother with it. And these days, thanks to those developments, the big-budget movies usually open worldwide within a matter of weeks, and are playing in theaters everywhere long before they're available on (legitimate) DVD.
New TV’s in PAL and NTSC countries use the ATSC standards for 480p/720p/1080i/1080p I believe.
HD DVD hasn’t rgion locked any of its discs. Blu-ray leaves regon locking up to the various studios. Thee are only 3 zones though. US-Japan are zone 1. Europe-Australia are Zone 2. Asia is Zone 3. Most BD’s aren’t locked though IIRC.
Looks like a few more dominoes fell today.
Anchor Bay and Starz will only distribute on Blu-ray.
Yep, the writing has been on the wall. MS only backs HDDVD because they want a format war and a failure of Optical HD discs. They want to make money on everything you watch. Their VP amirm, has openly stated that he thinks “downloads” are the future. They DO NOT want you to own any content and they also want you to pay each and every time you watch a movie... even if it’s for the 5th time!
No thanks... I want physical media that I can take with me or watch at 3AM if I can’t sleep! microsatan... they will NEVER change!
LLS
Not me. I have a Samsung 1080p and will get the Blu-ray player as soon as prices go down. TV is my life!
Onkyo HT-SR800 Black - $399 + $84 shipping - OneCall.com (also in silver, same price)
I’d go with the 605 or 705 or 805 series now, depending on the price you want.
That 800 is pretty obsolete now. These new ones have HDMI 1.3 which helps future proof them.
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