US consumers plump for Blu-ray
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15 Jul 2005, Ken Young , V3
Blu-ray has scored a hit over rival HD-DVD in the battle over next-generation optical disc technology, according to a US poll sponsored by the Blu-ray Disc Association.
A Blu-ray disc can hold up to 50Gb of data and was seen as the preferred format because of its wider support, suitability for PCs and games machines, and its ability to store large amounts of high-definition or standard-definition video and data.
Some 58 per cent of the 1,200 consumers polled preferred Blu-ray, 26 per cent were undecided, and 16 per cent preferred HD-DVD.
"The truth is that consumers don't really care about the format wars. They want a product that serves their needs, and that is Blu-ray," said Paul O'Donovan, principal analyst at Gartner.
"The research is no surprise because of Blu-ray's storage capacity and flexibility. But we still have to see how it pans out on pricing of devices."
Most UK consumers currently buy and hire videos recorded on DVD-Video with a capacity of 9GB and DVD-Data for PCs. As high definition movies become more available a storage capacity of 25GB to 30GB is needed to include the film, trailers and added content.
A selection of Blu-ray players, recorders and computer drives are in development from leading vendors such as Sony, Hitachi and Sharp, as well as PC hardware from HP and Dell.
Blu-ray is named after the shorter wavelength blue laser that allows it to store more data on the same sized disc than DVD which uses a longer wavelength.
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Do you agree?
well duh!, look at the polls sponsor.
WAG THE DOG ANYONE???
Posted by Bull3t, 15 Jul 2005
You know nothing
Please you know nothing, It has more storage and offers up to 200GB on 4 layered discs. They will only need to change the production lines to make Blue Ray which is more at first but in the end it costs the same as making the moddern day DVD and CD.
Posted by Mr. Computer, 18 Jul 2005
Blu-ray bad, HD-DVD Good
Blu-ray sux, sux, stupid blu-ray companies, there products will be overly expensive, it will end up like digital tv here in Australia (No one will purchase the products for it because of how expensive they will be for a good 10 years).
Not to mention the fact that Blu-ray is NOT backwards compatible with current DVD's, the Blu-ray players will NOT be able to read the DVD's, which means many video stores and consumers here in Australia will be skeptical about buying blu-ray for fear that when there DVD players die, they will no longer be able to play their beloved movies.
I believe the largest DVD collection that a Video store has here in Australia is over 10000 DVD's, i for one think that the video store that has that many will certainly not be going Blu-ray anytime soon.
HD-DVD may not be as large a capacity, but at least it is backwards compatible, and lets not forget the Holo-DVD that is also being created, this isn't a 2 player war, since Holo-DVD is capable of storing a total of 1TB on the disc, and when the consumer level Holo-DVD-R's come out, they will store 200GB and Holo-DVD-RW's will store 100GB.
Posted by ray73864, 18 Jul 2005
Not really thinking about consumers...
I'm a professional photografer and I do backups on DVD's. Now you could of course say "Hey, great! Now you can store 50GB (or more) on one disc!" But that is rubbish! First of all I finish one DVD for each costumer, so guess how many pictures you could put on a DVD? DOes anybody think I need taht size for anything? Secondly; what do I do with all my DVD's? And my CD's?
Creating a new product ist great, but in todays computerworld it has to be backwards comp. for at least one generation (meaning DVD's in this case...)
I just hope enough costumers will not buy blue-ray stuff, teaching the companies to actually produce stuff that people need/want.
Posted by Odin Avatar, 06 Dec 2005
wtf!
photographer dude, they didn't design it specifically for you.
Posted by stara, 13 Sep 2006