And I'm not saying that because I'm a fanboy or a shill for Sony. I'm saying it because a lot of simple market factors point toward it doing just fine. Here are nine reasons why I'm right. Let's address this first since this is the biggest factor that people cite when trumpeting Blu-ray's defeat. If you haven't noticed, here at CNET we spend a good amount of time covering new streaming video platforms and services and really enjoy testing these new products.
That said, all these products have some limiting factors, including lack of content selection, pricing hurdles, and most particularly, bandwidth issues, which affect video and audio quality. Case in point: The other night I was running Netflix's video streaming service on my Xbox It looked like crap. How crappy? Well, bad enough for my wife to say, "Get that off the screen right now. Next, I tried The Wiggles to better results. The program had brighter scenes and less movement, so the picture wasn't quite as soft and pixelated.
My 5-year-old could handle it just fine. However, I had to leave the room after 5 minutes in extreme pain. It was due to the content, not video quality. Man, that's some bad music. Now, I'm sure folks who've got Verizon's Fios installed in their homes are getting a much better picture when they stream their Netflix video.
But I'm dealing with cable internet from Time Warner in Manhattan and while it's acceptable for streaming video onto a inch computer monitor, the pipe really isn't fat enough for blowing things up too far beyond a inch set without things getting pretty fuzzy. Our video guru, David Katzmaier says he's happy with the bandwidth he's getting from Time Warner in Brooklyn, but he says he, too, runs into some pretty rough pictures, especially those that involve a lot of action sequences.
I can't see Time Warner and other cable Internet providers suddenly delivering more bandwidth anytime soon if anything, my connection seems to have gotten worse in recent months. DSL is even worse in a lot of cases--unless you're willing to pay ridiculous rates for top-of-the-line bandwidth offerings, which are usually geared toward businesses not consumers. And there's also plenty of talk about ISPs throttling back on bandwidth to police illegal downloads of music and yes, movie and TV shows.
The incoming Obama administration is reportedly going to be offering incentives to providers for building out broadband offerings and increasing bandwidth eventually , anyway. In that time prices for both Blu-ray players and discs will look a lot like what you see today on their DVD brethren see reasons 4 and 5. One of the problems with digital video streaming and downloads is that there's no standard for the industry to coalesce around.
It's all a hodgepodge of stuff with various factions competing against each other with the consumers stuck in the middle of it all.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Why I think Blu-Ray will succeed. Thread starter Killdozer Start date Oct 16, First Prev 4 of 5 Go to page. DaRat [H]ard Gawd. Joined Jul 18, Messages 1, VoodooChi d said:. Once again Blu-Ray players play DVD's also and upconvert. Click to expand Joined Apr 25, Messages 2, How does vc-1 compare to other codecs such as h and x? VoodooChi d [H]ard Gawd.
Joined May 3, Messages 1, Ripskin said:. Eh, long day of work didnt care about spelling to much. I cant say anything on size, as my parents, and in law's have a nice collection of Records still and prefer to listen to them over CD's. One of my former boss's jumped on the Laser disc wagon and now has a few hundred move's he would love to ebay. They were great but couldnt take on VHS.
Our Samsung Blu-Ray player at work has issues reading regular DVD's and sometimes will just say disc cannot be read, reaload the disc and it will load, but still display the message. It has done it once with a Blu-Ray disc and we have returned a few with the same gripe. I just cannot see either one really taking hold right now while regular DVD's are just hitting their peak. DaRat said:. Give it 2 actually, probably 3 or more years. I'm by no means poor and i definately won't have one until the technology is as good as CRTs or i get a great deal on a decent LCD.
HD is the way of the future, yes. But i've said it before it's not ready yet. Joined Jan 16, Messages 11, All we need is for someone to say something stupid like "I want a burger" in responce to it and yea pretty much. Hulk Supreme [H]ardness. Joined Nov 4, Messages 5, You guys can continue to speculate but I am telling you - whatever format the PORN industry chooses is the format that will win.
Joined Feb 9, Messages 1, Don't forget Sony exclusive studio support What's the deal with the audio? FrostyMelon Limp Gawd. Joined Oct 17, Messages Sony told everyone that betamax was the 'thing', too. BinarySynapse [H]F Junkie. Joined Feb 6, Messages 15, FrostyMelon said:. I swear people. While paper maps offer up a dose of nostalgia for some, digital options are much more convenient. Apps like Google Maps and Waze give people live updates on what locations look like, traffic, and more.
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