Blu-ray

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I keep hearing the people on this one tech podcast that the Blu-ray format is a failure, but I'm wondering if that's actually true. I know that a lot of people are just downloading movies to their computer and watching them on their iPods or other portable devices, but is the BR really doing that badly? I just recently bought a Blu-ray player, and I have been expecting that they'll eventually replace DVDs at stores and rental outlets.

I'm not seeing it. I watch blu-rays all the time and I love them! They're so beautiful! Remember seeing the difference from VHS and DVD? It's like that!

I think we're still in the VHS/Betamax battle version of the 21st Century. Just waiting for the dust to settle...

Among anyone with an ounce of appreciation of cinema, certainly, downloading movies is not really an option. Nonetheless, Blueray does almost seem like a very high tech answer to a question no one will be asking in 10 years. We'll see.

As of right now the battle is over. Bluray has beaten HD-DVD and is now the only choice for recorded HD movies. I have the Samsung Bluray player that also plays HD-DVD.

There might be some new formats on the horizon but Bluray is the way to go right now.

You're overlooking option C: that physical media become irrelevant. Increasingly, movies I watch are rented via X-box.

Are you watching standard definition 480i movies or 1080p. Big difference in picture quality on a hi-def tv. I was going to mention file sizes but with containers such as mkv, wmv and mp4 most of the 1080p material uses less space than a standard definition dvd.

No different than pay per view. I might watch once on ppv but if I like the movie I will buy in bluray.

As for me I'll download the xvid file and watch it on the pc or convert to a VIDEO_TS file and watch on tv. I had bought a cheap DVD player from walmart, $45 I think, that would play xvid and ntsc and pal formats. It lasted about 3 months and was toast.

Home video formats are an obsession of mine. Blu-rays are definately not failing it is predicted 17million BDs will be sold in 2009 despite the recession. They are 50GB (2-layer) and can hold 9 hrs of HD footage compared to 4.7GB DVDs. They look pretty amazing and I'm sure they sound amazing but a lack of surround sound at home means I can't describe it. A 100GB disc has been invented - 18 hours of HD. I love the cases, I don't know why. Before I got my player I would have dreams about holding a case. The only problems are that my player, a Sony BDPS-300 is from 2007 and has only ever once played Mamma Mia! through all the way, usually it can crash even before the language menu, or if you're lucky, after watching some of the film. This rarely happens with DVDs but BD is the future and this is probably a rematch of VHS/Betamax in the 70s apart from the fact that there is a stable alternative home video format in the DVD.

I haven't been able to make it through all of Mamma Mia even once.

Your player crashing sounds like you need to update your firmware. http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-li ... dl=BDPS300

I bought the Terminator and Matrix Trilogy's and was never able to watch them because of the crashing. I downloaded the update, burned to a DVD and loaded into the player. Now no crashing and I can watch all of my movies.

Another site with some info: http://www.blu-ray.com/firmware/firmwar ... g30&page=2

The only new movies we buy are in Blu-ray, and as far as Netflix rentals my preferred medium is Blu-ray. I only do play-it-now or DVD if the film is not available in Blu-ray.

HD-DVD failed, Blu-ray won.

Haha we did, it sped up loading times, but if possible crashed more!
But that may just have beeen Mamma Mia! I think it is too advanced for the player. I was so proud of it I just wanted to give it a treat or something as a reward! But didn't haha.
Hopefully we're getting another one that 'works'
I got a free prototype blu-ray computer that is great through connections in Dell but don't use it often cos the tiny memory of 512MB means it jumps and struggles alot with HD and I haven't saved up for more yet but hopefully that will sort it