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by Alec Matias, Jun 10, 2005 7:40am PDTSony's Ken Kutaragi, whose company is pushing Blu-Ray and will use it in the PlayStation 3, has said that the possibility of a merger between the two next-gen disc formats are "almost none. It's very difficult." As you may recall, talks have been underway for some time now to unify the format to prevent a war that would only hurt everyone involved.
Both sides have highlighted the problems in creating a unified standard for the discs, which use a blue laser to read and record information. Blu-ray's recording layer is located 0.1mm from the surface of the disc, compared with 0.6mm for HD DVD. "With the dialogue focusing on 0.1 and 0.6, there is no way for the two sides to divide things fairly," Kutaragi said.As for the other side of the fence, Toshiba's president Tadashi Okamura has said a merger could still be possible but won't come until after both formats have hit store shelves. "We may actually have a situation where merchandise from both sides is put on store shelves. But the market would not allow that situation to last very long," he said.
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So why not make the switch now? I think its 2 feudal clans not wanting to give up one's technology if you ask me. Both stubborn bulls.
My first Blu-Ray player will be PS3. If it catches on like the DVD did, then I'm all set.
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Blue ray exceeded my expectations, it is more like DVD 3
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Doesn't seem to be a problem here:
http://www.opticalstorage.philips.com/about/news/article-14836.html
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I still contend that this new generation of DVD players won't go anywhere. consumers don't want to re-buy their DVD collection again just yet.
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Common people need to understand by Blu Ray is better. I remember back in the Beta days I didn't understand why beta was better and so I was fine with VHS. Stinking worthless VHS tapes which are still scattered throughout my house today.
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HD-DVD: Cheaper to [mass-]produce, less capacity even in roadmap.
Blu-Ray: More expensive to produce media, printings, players. Higher capacity, higher ceiling for growth.
So besides a bit of corporate pride, this seems to me to be purely about the money: The Blu-Ray camp is trading smaller short-term profits (from smaller short-term margins) for greater long-term potential, both from mass-production and royalty standpoints. HD-DVD has an arguably shorter lifespan, which in theory requires everyone to go through this headache again at some point. That is, of course assuming network distribution of movies doesn't supplant physical media.
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Blu-Ray has three very important trumph cards.
1) PS3, 90 million dvd playes with a Playstation logo speaks for itself.
2) More capacity, there will be movies that can fit on a single layer on BR that would require dual on a HD-DVD, how much cheaper would HD-DVD have to be in order to beat that? 40% more capcity is almost like comparing a Single Layer DVD to a Dual Layer.
3) Sony owns the software as well, MGM wasn't bought by accident.
Besides all this, the Blu-Ray camp has been releasing countless stuff about how they were reducing manufactoring cost.
Ohh and we loose anyway:
This offers the studios the opportunity to revoke specific kinds of players' permission to play titles released from point of discovery of a security compromise and onward.
More here:
http://www.dvdfile.com/news/viewpoints/editors_desk/2005/05_18.html
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Also, if they dont agree on a format, they will probably both fail. I image they are going to be a bit pricey.
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If it's anywhere before 2007 I think either one will fail badly. Most non-techie people didn't get DVD players until just a couple years ago, no way are they going to upgrade within this decade.
Whats wrong with 0.35mm?
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Stupid corporations.
If they don't reach an agreement, I'm afraid software support will end up weak, and we'll have laserdisk all over again.