Interview Picture Disc
Interview Picture Disc
Blu ray or HD DVD?
On August 20, 2007, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation, announced they would no longer be supporting the Blu-ray Disc format. Citing HD DVD's lower consumer equipment and disc replication costs (due to its similarities to the standard DVD format), all future Paramount/Dreamworks titles will be released exclusively on HD DVD. Together, Paramount and DreamWorks are currently the 2007 box office leaders, and their first two HD DVD-exclusive titles Shrek 3 and Transformers are both poised to be top sellers during the 2007 holiday season. In an interview with PC World, Alan Bell, the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Paramount Pictures, stated the exclusive support for HD DVD is currently indefinite. Blu Ray exclusives are found on HD DVD in defferent regions under different studios, and vice versa for HD DVD exclusives but HD DVD players are not restricted on playing them as Blu ray can't.
WHO/WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Regarding the Paramount/Dreamworks move to HD DVD ...
Irrespective of the rumoured "payoff" by Microsoft/Toshiba -- which might or might not have been part of the deal -- this was a logical move by a studio who recognized that Blu-ray has been a problematic format since day one. Despite a rosy picture painted by the Blu-ray Disk Association, behind the scenes there is disorder and major problems...
- Unlike for HD DVD disks, there is little disk reproduction capacity, especially for 50 GB dual layer disks (until recently only Sony had a functioning plant)
- Disk replication costs are higher than for HD DVD (at one point the figures $6 vs $1.50 were reported).
- Programming of extra features in BD-java is complex, costly and clunky (unlike HDi used on HD DVD)
- sales of most Blu-ray (and HD DVD) disks are low ... typically under 2000 copies worldwide (not enough to make a profit)
- Unlike HD DVD where comprehensive technical requirements were defined and unchanged from day one, there is no stable and universal standard for Blu-ray, rather it is a "work in progress". As a result each player has different capabilities and studios literally don't know what to program for. As a result they have taken to not including many extra features since most players can't play them. Even when present they are frequently poorly implemented.
I can't comment on the final statement "Blu ray (sic) exclusives ... but HD DVD players are not restricted on playing them as Blu ray (sic) can't." ... since I don't know what it means.
It appears to refer to studios who support exclusively one format or the other, but since Blu-ray exclusives are NOT found on HD DVD in different regions (in any way I understand anyway), I'm lost.
Overall many experts consider Blu-ray to be technically more advanced, BUT poorly implemented.
Given that audio and video quality are the same, movies fit with advanced audio and extras on disks of both format, Blu-ray has no practical advantages (The vaunted extra capacity on Blu-ray is unnecessary and unused), and with the addition of a 51 GB version of HD DVD no longer even a theoretical advantage.
On the other hand unlike HD DVD Blu-ray is cluttered with DRM and region coding. HD DVD players are generally superior upscaling DVD players relative to Blu-ray players. All HD DVD players play CDs, while many Blu-ray players don't. As stated: BD-java sucks relative to HDi as a programming tool for extras; the BD spec is still incomplete; almost all current players are unable to play many extra features; Internet connectivity is (unlike HD DVD) not required; and, yet prices for these less functional Blu-ray players is higher.
For some reason many consumers have been convinced Blu-ray is superior despite all evidence to the contrary. All I can say is this is a testament to the gullibility of most people and to the power of advertising.
As to which will "win" ... probably neither since the majority of consumers are sticking with DVD. For proof one need only note that DVD sales of one recent blockbuster movie (Transformer) exceeded TOTAL sales of ALL Blu-ray and HD DVD disks in the last 18 months, and in the week ending November 24 in the US 600,000 DVD players were sold in comparison to 57,000 Blue-ray and HD DVD players ... and this after $multimillion spent advertising "next generation" HD players.
The bottom line is less than 20% of consumers can benefit from Blu-ray or HD DVD .... so in answer to "Blu ray or HD DVD?" my answer is neither -- at least for now ... stick with DVD and move to HD disks later (if you can benefit and are willing to pay the higher cost) once the dust settles.
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