Thursday, March 30, 2006

Suppose They Gave a War & Nobody Came

This about the new media format Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD not the Iraq situation where everybody is about to join in. They are about to finally release products in the next few months. But there is a dirty little secret that few realise and that is that some of those movies being release are just on plan old DVD's but formated to use MPEG4 with the new disc layout to provide the higher quality picture. Given the complexity of getting the new technologies to even deliver a HD picture given all the layers of copy protection and the expense of the new hardware. I thin many people will be using DVD players with the new HD simulated output for a long time and only the few will bother with the expense of the new technolgies.

I do think a few blu-ray disc will be sold but because the PlayStation 3 will be in so many homes that people will by the discs just to see but they will buy the game hardware first and the blu-ray second.