prashrb

Mar 30 2007, 05:02 PM

Guys, look at the cost of the Blue-Ray drive and the medias, they are far expensive than the DVD's,

technically, it sounds 1 BRD = 30 CD's = 5 DVD's
economically, it sounds cost of 1 BRD = cost of 100 CD's = cost of 50 DVD's

Hope, I'm proving still the DVD's are still cheaper, in-spite of lower capacity as compared with BR-Disc!

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bk2070

Mar 30 2007, 10:39 PM

QUOTE(Watermonkey @ Mar 27 2007, 06:48 PM)

I'm not personally going to jump on that bandwagon for another year or two most likely. The war isn't over yet, just because Blu-Ray sounds much cooler and has Sony behind it doesn't mean it's a done deal. There are many many HD-DVD players and titles out and more are coming out all the time. This is a replay of the VHS tape wars of 20 years ago, give or take, where the superior format, beta-max, ended up loosing. I don't know which is the superior format in this case, but it seems as though I'd read somewhere that HD-DVD actually holds more information on thier discs. In any case, with Apple and Sony and many others firmly backing Blu-Ray, it's probably going to win, but I wouldn't take it to the bank just yet.

Completly opposite of you, I am jumping o nthe bandwagon. It seems like that blu ray is the next generation of disc quality if u have ever used blu ray deisc then you will have noticed that the wuality is much better than dvds. And the sou nd is to. Especially if you have HD then yo uwill like how picture perfect everything is. It really is worth the price you have to payu for it. Sure maybe 80 some dollars may seem like it is a lot when you are actually going to gain back the money after you see the picture and such things. So really this is really a great deal just because blu ray shows how far technology has gone in the past few years alone.

 

 

 

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elhadi

Mar 12 2008, 12:42 PM

50 gb it's veryyy nice

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kuberan_swe

Oct 15 2007, 12:54 PM

QUOTE(Unholy Prayer @ Mar 30 2007, 08:04 PM)

I don't think the DVD will last much longer, but I'm going to use the DVD as long as I can since the Blu-Ray appears to be the better disc. I just don't feel like paying the extra money for the Blu-Ray.

blu ray is more advanced than DVD....
but we need a blue laser to read...

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kab012345

Sep 30 2007, 02:48 AM

I, myself have a PS3, so if I ever have the need for Blue-Ray, there's another use for my 600GB PS3! (Too bad I can't use that 600GB and add that on to my 400 GB Computer, for a grand total of 1 Terabyte )
The problem is, Blue Ray is kinda expensive though. Many people will not want to pay that kind of a price for one disk. And the system itself costs more than a 600GB PS3, so.. Hey, since sinthetix brought it up, I will probably still use some of the old stuff, like VHS Tapes and Records as well as Cassette Tapes and Floppy Disks(3 1/2 and 5 1/2 inch).

Also, thanks for that Wiki and Blog article. I never really knew that much about Blue-Ray, just what was in the PS3 Box.

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ishan1990

Sep 29 2007, 11:10 PM

well, for me its not as if i have jumped on the blue ray bandwagon, but i do have a ps3 so i wouldnt mind it too much if blue ray won out in the end At any rate i am interested to see where this battle is headed. oh and thanks for that description nirmaldaniel very basic, yet very effective

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nirmaldaniel

Sep 8 2007, 06:52 AM

Blue-Ray discs require a blue laser to get the info....A red laser beam is too large to read the pits and convert them into usable data...Blue lasers have tighter, smaller beams and wavelengths so that's also why they can pack more data onto the same sized disc....

Now the older DVD that use the red laser, their pits are large enough for the Blue-Ray laser to read them too....

So a Blue Ray can read both, but an older DVD player can only do the older DVD because they use a Red laser in them.

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