Comments on: BluRay sales flourishing in ol’ Europe

By: zleet

zleet — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:13:04 +0000

@26

Yes I could get the discs from play, axelmusic, movietyme or the other dozen online sellers but that wasn’t the point I was making.

What I was saying is that the high-street price combined with the exclusivity of the hardware needed means it isn’t yet impulse buy. It’s doesn’t go in the rack of hundreds of DVD’s but rather in a small pile near my only HDTV.

If you could buy DVD and BD together for a good price then that would be another matter.

By: norman

norman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:53:12 +0000

This is correct, no fals information in the numbers or the article.
We in Europe have not felt the finance crisis so bad as the Americans. Blu-ray ain’t that expencive anyway go buy and enjoy… Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Europe.

By: booboo

booboo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:46:26 +0000

@38 America IS A Piece OF Shiit
Its obvious you have something against America… what they do… steal your lolly pop?… little boy, say that to the face of any American and see what happens to you.

Yeah, regular DVD will be around for a while but i wouldn’t say that BR is just a fad, BR will be here for a while because alot of people are supporting it already and are willing to make the change from standard DVD.

By: Cheddar

Cheddar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:44:22 +0000

You people that think its a fad and it aint gonna last need to look at the advancements they have made this will be around for at least 10-15 years prolly longer by 2010 there will be a 400gb bluray disc and by 2013 it will be 1tb they have the technology they are just refining it now. I think its panasonic that is doing it so that should help narrow the search for those interested.

Just think 400gb ps3 games…..

By: America IS A Piece OF Shiit

America IS A Piece OF Shiit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:48:40 +0000

what a LIE BLU Is FaILING ANd Its CRAP

By: Player_1

Player_1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:38:01 +0000

Here You can brush up on Your knowledge about what HDTV, 1080p etc. is all about: http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/284986.html
Of course dpi (dots per inch) is even more important than screen size, most of You probably know that.

By: mr salty

mr salty — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:10:37 +0000

@33, there’s a lot of channels broadcasting in 1080…every big tv station does and all movie channels…there some that dont…but pretty soon it will all be available in 1080

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:58:07 +0000

Anybody who thinks that BD is only slightly sharper than DVD quality is an idiot. Also anyone who argues that HD standard video cannot be pirated is also an idiot. Thank you and goodnight.

By: FamilyGuy

FamilyGuy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:37:14 +0000

HD MOVIES in PS3 FORMATS (playable on your ps3 without needing to convert them)

2 Fast 2 Furious (1080p).vob | 8.42 GB [U][B]above dual layer[/B][/U]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=4603039

The Fast and Furious 3 (1080p).vob | 8.32 GB [U][B]above dual layer[/B][/U]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=00663a5

21 (1080p).vob | 8.38 GB [U][B]above dual layer[/B][/U]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=8a483c7

Big Trouble in Little China (720p).vob | 4.54 GB [B]Dual layer[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=841d6e6

Rounders (720p).mp4 | 4.62 GB [B]dual layer[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=367cb7a

Star Wars .EpII. clones (1080p).vob | 8.15 GB [U][B]above dual layer[/B][/U]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=5b9808c

Star Wars .EpIII. Sith. (1080p).vob | 7.79 GB [B]dual layer[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=35edc99

Star Wars .EpIV.New.Hope. (1080p).vob | 7.47 GB [B]dual layer[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=eeb2541

Star Wars .EpV.ESB. (1080p).vob | 7.35 GB [B]dual layer[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=0209b19

Star Wars .EpVI.ROJ. (1080p).vob | 8.08 GB [U][B]above dual layer[/B][/U]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=29df73e

Cars (720p).mp4 | 2.63 GB [B]standard dvd[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=8ff5636

The.Nightmare.Before.Christmas. . (1080p).mp4 | 2.44 GB [B]standard dvd[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=43eee0f

Kung Fu Panda (720p).mp4 size: 3.39 GB [B]standard dvd[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=b4efbed

Tinker_Bell_2008_(720p) .mp4 size: 2.79 GB [B]standard dvd[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=0e07ade

Sahara. Divx.720p.avi size: 4.31 GB [B]standard dvd[/B] Dvix file with 2 channels of audio (french, English)
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=8d0e477

Wall-E (720p) .mp4 size: 3.6 GB [B]standard dvd[/B]
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=763c4a1

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:07:17 +0000

@28
Yeah, but not everyone can get a 50mbit connection.

@1,8&11
Blu-Ray is not going away any time soon, lots of people have spent their hard earned cash on HDTV’s and are not going to throw it out and buy another tele are they? And if you do wait for Ultra HD or 3D TV (which will probably be 10-15 years, if at all being as you can’t tell the difference unless you have an enormous screen) I think you will have gotten your money’s worth out of a HDTV by then. And they don’t even broadcast in 1080p yet what makes you think in 2-3 years they will be broadcasting in 4320p?

As for downloadable HD movies like off Xbox Live and Apple, it is always a possibility that this may take over Blu-Ray but lots of people (myself included) like to have a disc, something you can touch, it just seems…better to me for some reason. Also any movies you do download will be compressed in order to allow people with slow connections to download it, with a Blu-Ray you get uncompressed full 1080p.

@5
They do not sell Blu-Rays at £25 in HMV, I was in one the other day, they are all about £17, unless you were looking at a TV series or something. Anyway my advice to everyone is buy them online, they are much cheaper.

By: Fios

Fios — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:55:58 +0000

@ 30

Buying 15-20 bluray discs is about $500-$600 a month, I pay nowhere near that for my ISP and usenet access. Its closer to $70 which equals to someone buying 4 DVDs a month or 3 BluRays a month.
Plus, I dont need to store them, just watch and delete (with a few exceptions). If you buy bluray and the movie sucks you are stuck with it. If I ever want to watch it again I can just DL it again in an hour or two depending on the size. And on SSL usenet there are no legal implications lol. Plus I can also get all the Music, software, and games I want almost instantly. Not too bad for a $70 a month entertainment budget.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:55:39 +0000

Heres my reasoning:

Say you download 20 per month

50mb broadband: $140/month
Storage: 1tb drive @ $150 = $0.15/gb
Electricity: unknown, guess at $20/month (2 hours x 20 movies = 400 hours)

Total
Storage: 0.15 x 45gb = $6.75
Electricity: 20/20 = $1
Broadband: $140/20 = $7

= $14.75 per movie

It would almost be cheaper to actually buy the damn things!

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:35:02 +0000

@28 lol The ammount you’re paying for your bandwidth coupled with the hard disk storage of the BD-rips isn’t far off the retail price of Blu-rays.

You might as well buy the blurays and avoid the hassle of downloading them and also any illegal implications!

By: mr salty

mr salty — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:32:49 +0000

bluray is here to stay…like said before…online stores will give you very good prices.
1080 is the new standard for hd…all 720 models are going away and most manufacturers barely make 720 models anymore (except for 32 inch and below)
Maybe in 10 years there will be a different format. Maybe movies on SSD or something could be possible…but people are always gonna want to own a physical object (well most people)
i think regular dvds will be around for quite a while though

By: Fios

Fios — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:15:06 +0000

@ 27

get fios and usenet. I download probably 15-20 Blu-Ray rips a month (no compression) which are 45GB a piece. They only take about two hours to download too and there is no cap on usage.