techmanBlu-ray
March 8th 2008 02:44
He looks good in any medium
A little while back Toshiba announced that it would no longer manufacture HD-DVD technology.
Toshiba and Sony have been offering alternate formats. Toshiba it's HD-DVD and Sony offering Blu-ray.
While Blu-ray offered more storage space (50 gigs vs. 30 gigs), HD was less expensive. HD players sold for around $400, blue ray about $700 on the Playstataion 3. Now Walmart has a blu-ray player for about $388.00
According to bluray.com the fact is that eventually blu ray will replace dvd's. To some degree Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Warner, MGM and Lionsgate all have (some) movies available in the format.
The companies who make the machines say that most will be backwards compatible with the dvd's we currently own. Philips, Panasonic and Sony are among those manufacturers.
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A lot was at stake here. The DVD business is bigger than the American movie theater business.
In just the States dvd's bring in more than $23 billion dollars per year, compared to ticket sales of less than $10 billion per year.
Wal-Mart sells about 40% of those $23 billion dollars worth of dvd's. That may be part of the reason that you can't dowload a lot of your favorite movies, so far. Wal-Mart doesn't want to lose that revenue.
However, the studios may make more profit per film sale online, than through retailers, eventually.
But, that will involve making it easier to watch movies streamed from your computer to the television.
Micrososft has an instruction page, but that involves having a newer computer with Windows Vista, Windows Media Center and an x-box in your home.
The newer Tivo boxes can download from Amazon. You can also use Amazon with certain tv's, cables, connections and Microsoft software....
Apple has the Apple tv. And you need to buy from itunes.
So there's still a ways to go before it gets easy for the majority of us. But, eventually we will swap out our older technology and go along. (Although I still know alot of folks happily paying less for everything on their vcr's
And, in the mean time, for freeing dvd's to operate on different platforms, you might want to take a look at
Double Twist Interesting....
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