Comments on: Toshiba lowers prices in order to save HDDVD

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:40:05 +0000

Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1441663320080116

By: Darq

Darq — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:28:22 +0000

This censoring site needs to be proxyspammed
RQ

By: jgarofalo

jgarofalo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:54:59 +0000

Hey, what toshiba should do now is a writable or rewritable HDVD, to fake f****ing hollywood, I will apreciate its because of its storage capacity, can not make any disctintion between that “super” quality and actual dvd, and do not care a better quality than it, a 40gb writable DVD is welcome.

By: GDesigner

GDesigner — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:33:52 +0000

The data size of a disc is absolutely important. For those of you who copy your DVDs, certainly you realize that when you have a DL disc and try to put it on a single layer, you engage the transcoder. When you take an analog source like 35mm, DV, etc and convert it to digital content, you’re using some sort of compression. Personally, I prefer the MS’s VC-1 over MPEG-2 which Sony/Columbia/Tri-Star stubbornly use for their BD movies, but the reason is because I prefer that compression technology. Obviously, the larger the file size, the better quality the compression. Thus, 25GB vs 15GB and 50GB vs 30GB is a compelling reason to support BD over HD-DVD. I know that home theater enthusiasts allegedly supported HD-DVD over BD, but it appears that most of the debate is based on issues other than the actually quality of the medium (i.e. people either hate Sony or own a PS3). I don’t want BD to win just because I have a PS3 though. Researching both technologies and wanting to invest in a next-gen gaming system (mostly for NCAA football), PS3 seemed like the best choice considering BD appeared superior and was actually an internal drive as opposed to an external drive connected via USB(!). I challenge anyone to really argue the picture quality between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Both look great, but, as noted earlier, neither is such a HUGE improvement over DVD like DVD is over VHS that it compels the consumer to purchase one immediately.

But I’m sure the studios do likely support BD for its copy protection. Unfortunately for them but fortunately for us, disc copy protection will ALWAYS get cracked. It’s just a matter of time. Proponents of HD DLing are going to be sorry when their digital content will be protected. It’s much easier to protect that than the disc media. It’s to our advantage for a HD disc format to win, and I’m glad it appears to be Blu-Ray

By: WakkoBlues

WakkoBlues — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:13:03 +0000

oh, now that they may lose a lot of money, poor people matter.

Good for them.

By: John Woo

John Woo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:24:50 +0000

It’s pretty obvious why all the studios have dumped HDDVD. Blu-ray and HD were tied with each other until both of them were cracked. Now Blu-ray with BD+ is definitely superior to ALL movie studios from the standpoint of copy protection. We know that BD+ will be cracked eventually also, but, I suppose maybe they don’t? I’m talking bout a REAL BD+ crack, not that quasi-crack by slysoft.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:47:29 +0000

good luck tosh, im rooting for you.

By: Diggler

Diggler — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:51:26 +0000

Seriously, I doubt that Toshiba will suffer too much over this. Microsoft are a major benefactor, which would mean that HD-DVD will probably be used as a replacement for our current burning media (I won’t be complaining about 16gig dvd-r’s)

By: grand

grand — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:59:53 +0000

lets be honest anybody who wants blueray to win has to be a playstation3 owner. it makes sense to go for hddvd good pricing ect, plus we all known what sony are like

By: Paradox

Paradox — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:28:49 +0000

@67 its pretty obvious that the problem there is you, why are you putting little arrows in front? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmBzllkbUM

By: Paradox

Paradox — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:23:08 +0000

not really interested, i like to download 700mb movies then copy them onto a dic and watch them on my divx player, all in a matter of 5 minutes, that’s why i am here

By: I H8 Sony

I H8 Sony — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:42:59 +0000

Okay, I give up. Wankers.

By: I H8 Sony

I H8 Sony — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:42:25 +0000

Oops. Sorry, here’s a clickable link. Be nice if Rlslog would post how their comments are set up. (BB, HTML, etc.)

—->[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmBzllkbUM[/url]

By: I H8 Sony

I H8 Sony — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:40:09 +0000

@#22- “sony would have been doing everything they could to save blu-ray…….”

You mean like they did with Beta?

Here’s one dedicated to all the PS3 fans.:P

—>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmBzllkbUM

By: MJKwote

MJKwote — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:35:18 +0000

dude for reel who cares I just want the burnable disks to be a little more mainstream.. which ever one I can buy blank HDDVDs or Blank Burnable blurays then I will get that player LOL… will you have to have a speacial burner??