Boswell Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 "Toshiba's announcement that it is to stop production of HD DVD players leaves the way clear for Blu-ray to become the industry standard". Unlucky all you HD DVD buyers! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7252506.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 interestingi thought so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam F Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Oh well, i have Blu Ray dvd player. My ps3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bondy Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 What will all the Xbox fanboys say now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam F Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 What will all the Xbox fanboys say now?Xbox is better gameplay. Thats what! I would know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 (edited) What will all the Xbox fanboys say now?summat liike"lucky i didn't buy that rip-off hd-dvd drive for my 360 " Edited February 20, 2008 by Disasterboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 What will all the Xbox fanboys say now?I think there's rumours of Microsoft of buying a Blu-Ray license, so its more than likely that there'll be an Xbox 360 Blu-Ray edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 blue ray makes me angry, i cant tell the f**king different between that and HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 blue ray makes me angry, i cant tell the f**king different between that and HDThere isn't just that they use different discs. So up until now they've both needed different disc drives, meaning a ps3 won't play hd dvd and an xbox won't play blue ray. The way to tell the difference is the big fat name on the top of the box I'm glad blue ray won, we have about 15 of them downstairs. As well as the fancy expensive blue ray player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future orange 660 Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 maybe he meant tell the difference in qualityanyone read the article?make sense really. 10million ps3's sold alone. compared to 1 million hd players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 maybe he meant tell the difference in qualityisn't any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 maybe he meant tell the difference in qualityanyone read the article?make sense really. 10million ps3's sold alone. compared to 1 million hd playerswhat he said. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 maybe he meant tell the difference in qualityanyone read the article?make sense really. 10million ps3's sold alone. compared to 1 million hd playersThats why i said there isn't any difference, aside from the discs. The difference in image quality is negligable, they're both HD, they just go about it in different coding ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I think there's rumours of Microsoft of buying a Blu-Ray license, so its more than likely that there'll be an Xbox 360 Blu-Ray edition.Sony have said something like "We would welcome Microsoft to the Blu-Ray camp" or something, so it looks good. Rumour is that it could be an add-on drive released in May. Would be pretty sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_travis Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 So for all them numpties who bought EXPENSIVE blu-ray players.hahacos now, the prices will probably be a lot lot less glad i got my PS3 on the cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofreak Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I got the HD DVD drive knowing that Blu Ray would eventually win, but I wanted Transformers in HD and I got 5 free movies (these alone cover the price of the player) so no great loss to me at all. I'll buy a Blu Ray player when they are a bit more reasonably priced and put it next to the HD DVD player.Plus all those unlucky HD DVD owners will soon have a load of cheap movies available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Stupid, stupid question, but what about SkyHD? Is it just High Definition stream rather then a standard. I guess it would be stupid if it was, plus, SkyBlu-Ray sounds shit. Also, aren't blu-ray players like 7x more expensive then HD ones, at least, from when i've looked?Also, can you put HD movies on a blu-ray disc? Or is it different encoding and everything?Just interested as i'm looking at getting a HDTV soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 blu-ray is a HD DVDin the sense it stores information in a high density mannerHD-DVDs do it too, but in a different way.And Sky HD is just a high-density stream of telly information, meaning, you get more stuff in the signal.So, blu-ray will hold a HD movie, and the prices for a blu-ray player will probably drop soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Blue-Ray and HD DVD are media storage formats. HD still stands on SkyHD as its simply High Definiton TV which requires a HDTV.Blue-Ray and HD DVD will make no difference to television/sky, it only effects what equipment you want to play them on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Just interested as i'm looking at getting a HDTV soon.make sure to get one that's bluray compatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Ha.b*****d. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Fried Rice Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 The Blu-ray discs are thicker than the HD DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 What will all the Xbox fanboys say now?I didn't spend £120 on a HD-DVD player, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totaltrials Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 make sure to get one that's bluray compatible.I'm sure there's no such thing as Bluray compatibility for TV's. it's just HD which will work for Blueray and of course HD DVDs.A HD tv will still show Bluray in High definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat hudson Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 i'm guessing blue ray isnt going to work on me poota. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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