Blu-ray is officially dead!

Post by **bio** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:42 am

Apparently, Sony (aka: Those Fuckers) is incapable of learning from the past.

They've announced that they'll offer no help to the adult film industry in converting to Blu-ray technology. This is the same stance they took when they offered up BETA all those years ago.

Most of the producers of adult films are now moving toward HD DVD instead. This will directly influence the other film studios to follow suit (as it did with VHS), and HD DVD will become the industry standard.

Of course, this comes on top of Sony's settling its DRM lawsuits and failed PS3 launch.

Oh yes.. this does please me,

Post by **miftah** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:31 pm

I'm moderately pleased about this. $600 is a conundrum, no doubt. I understand that they needed to price this thing for being both a game system and a blue ray player (which as both, its actually a pretty good value at the moment), but it undermines any advantage they would have had in getting it out everywhere. If they had priced it $400-500, it would have been high, but still reasonable. Such as it is, its the key to insuring the death of two different technologies. They should have made it up-scalable like the 360 (which with the add-on HD-DVD brings it to, you guessed it, $600). At least the new player alone isn't an obstacle to entry.

But you're right. This is part and parcel of Sony's attitude. I don't know why they have such faith in their brand that they think they can do half the things that they do, but it goes to show that, especially in the Information Age, its a really bad idea to mess with the geeks (a.k.a. Rootkits on shitty CDs and low-def porn).

The thing that amuses me most is the implication that siding against Porn, Inc. is going to somehow endear them to middle America. As though middle America doesn't like sex. Sony should do a little market research, and they'd discover that Evangelicals are a long way off from the precious "early adopters." Still, you can be sure that this has Disney somehow attached to it.

Post by **miftah** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:15 am

I stand corrected, Sony, you totally get it.

Painted · Post by **Painted** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:44 am

Yeah that commercial pretty much sucked. I know a guy who works at best buy and he said the playstations are just sitting there and everybody is waiting for the Wii to be restocked.

ironpants · Post by **ironpants** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:43 pm

Painted wrote:... and everybody is waiting for the Wii to be restocked.

Heh, Bio caught me restocking my Wii once, I'm still a bit embarassed about that incident

Post by **bio** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:32 pm

ironpants wrote:Heh, Bio caught me restocking my Wii once, I'm still a bit embarassed about that incident

Post by **miftah** » Sat May 26, 2007 8:47 pm

Sony's already lost their shirts. Now they're about to lose their dignity. What you say they never had any? Well, you might have a point there.

Post by **bio** » Tue May 29, 2007 10:20 am

And thus, the karmatic wheel spins around again!

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:34 am

bio wrote:And thus, the karmatic wheel spins around again!

Then again, maybe not.

What miftah said about the player/console "bundle" being a good value apparently was enough to shift the momentum in Sony's favor (IMO, that has to do both with Sony's longer-term presence in consoles and the convenience of getting it all at once vs buying add-ons - or is there some under-the-table stuffs going on?).

These are still outta my budget for an HDTV and a HD Disc player, so I am still going to wait this one out some more.

Post by **miftah** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:13 am

Yeah, I have a PSP (I use it for a video portfolio) and have mulled over getting the PS3 after they announced the price drop. The PSP has revealed Sony's ineptitude as they have mucked up their very thin header criteria for H.264 Mp4s with every system update, making home encoders dance around to try and keep their files compatible. Sorry. My inner A/V nerd just popped out there for a second.

But truly, at this point, I don't much care who succeeds. I do still hate Sony, but as Lucasfilm has announced that they'll not release hi-def Star Wars until there's a clear winner, I don't care anymore. Blue-Ray, HD-DVD, whatever. Just, please, one of you leave.

BTW, I didn't read into the article too far but maybe they mention that Wal-Mart has a <$200 HDDVD player coming this fall. If true, this battle is far from over.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:14 am

miftah wrote:...I didn't read into the article too far but maybe they mention that Wal-Mart has a <$200 HDDVD player coming this fall. If true, this battle is far from over.

Ah, you mean this.

Moreover, Wal-Mart might actually pull it off. I can see the porn industry hailing Wal-Mart as their hero - Ironies abound!

Post by **miftah** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:31 am

Wal-Mart Names HD DVD the Winner

Damn, that's almost enough to make me buy PS3 today.

ironpants · Post by **ironpants** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:21 pm

bugfreezer wrote:I can see the porn industry hailing Wal-Mart as their hero - Ironies abound!

Killer, old IP's gonna get paid again. Isn't the advertising industry fun?

Blu-ray is officially dead!

Blu-ray is officially dead!

Maybe not quite dead....