Microsoft's HD DVD!!!

SpooK · Post by **SpooK** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:55 pm

Good timing, HD-DVD is calling it quits... yielding to Blu-Ray. I think it is a huge mistake, but oh well... that is the market for you.

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:33 pm

SpooK wrote:Good timing, HD-DVD is calling it quits... yielding to Blu-Ray. I think it is a huge mistake, but oh well... that is the market for you.

I want to get a Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, because I heard if HD-DVD looses the format war then MS will release a 360 Blu-Ray drive, and it'd be good to support both.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:20 pm

Maybe I need to make one of these 'bout blu-ray....

-JL

t0xic · Post by **t0xic** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:52 pm

Why would you buy an HD DVD drive? Save up for a blu-ray. Netflix already announced their not carrying HD DVDs anymore, so others will follow. Why waste your money (~$150) on something that will be outdated almost immediately? (*cough* new PC hardware *cough*)

jerryleecooper · Post by **jerryleecooper** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:35 pm

Blu-ray is more or less inferior to hd-dvd. it needed a new resine to make discs (disks?) autonomous? without the need of a caddie. Remember the caddie? The same caddie that the first cdroms needed on some brand of (apple computers, remember the IIvx?) computers? THe blu-ray needed one, because it was inferior to the hd-dvd.

edited becaUSE i didnt like my previous post.

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:52 am

soo many want-to-be's! *pulls hair out*

Blu-ray disk hold far more data. The end.

jerryleecooper · Post by **jerryleecooper** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:13 pm

01000101 wrote:soo many want-to-be's! *pulls hair out*

Blu-ray disk hold far more data. The end.

Too many want-to-be, I edited this part of my previous post because I realized I was good and too similar to a song from the spice girls.

Tapes hold more data than blu-ray discs, why don't we don't use tapes?
Blu-ray discs are fragiles, compared to hd-dvd discs, and will wear out.
I think there's place for both.

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:16 pm

jerryleecooper wrote:Tapes hold more data than blu-ray discs, why don't we don't use tapes?Blu-ray discs are fragiles, compared to hd-dvd discs, and will wear out.I think there's place for both.

Yeah, and Betamax were smaller. There's only ever room for one format.

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:51 am

jerryleecooper wrote:Blu-ray is more or less inferior to hd-dvd. it needed a new resine to make discs (disks?) autonomous? without the need of a caddie. Remember the caddie? The same caddie that the first cdroms needed on some brand of (apple computers, remember the IIvx?) computers? THe blu-ray needed one, because it was inferior to the hd-dvd.

I remember those things! That was party due to companies thinking the underside of the CD was just as delicate as on tapes, so they put them into a weird plastic thing so it looked like a huge diskette.

[url]Tapes hold more data than blu-ray discs, why don't we don't use tapes?[/url]
We could use MiniDVs. You can get them in 60, 90, and 120 (and probably other) minutes and they store video in a digital format. And thanks to new compression techniques they can now store HD within the same bandwith (60 minute tape can store 60 minutes of 1080p or 80 minutes in long play at 720p).

Wave · Post by **Wave** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:11 pm

os.hacker64 wrote:MS has made a horrible OS. Windows, they should start over instead of continuing the bloated mess called windows.

They are (trying to).

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