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Moonshadow101
05/06/09

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Maybe they shouldn't have named it as if it were some kind of mystical space technology.

How about a more practical name? Let's see. It's primary purpose is to confer HD content to people... DVD is a nice, familiar label that people know... how about HD-DVD?
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ceilingFANBOY
05/06/09

@Moonshadow101: Considering blu-ray was never accepted by the DVD consortium, they could not name it anything with DVD in the name. Blu-ray is still a descriptive name and giving it the space technology name gives it a futuristic sound that makes people who are looking for the next big thing want it. Also, as I saw when both formats were still alive, people were dumb enough to buy blu-ray movies and try to play them in their DVD players, but the number of people who tried to play HD-DVD movies in their DVD players was even higher. It was a good thing that the studios let us return movies that were opened due to customer ignorance. Now that we have a large enough section of blu-ray movies that we have to worry about theft, though, we have them in keeper boxes that we have to unlock, which gives us a chance to make sure that the customer knows that they aren't buying a DVD (that, and the fact that they are locked up usually makes an alarm to people that they aren't normal DVDs).
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coyote1284: P.E.T.U.
05/07/09

@ceilingFANBOY: If I knew nothing about the format, I'd think that having the movies locked up meant they were adult videos.
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ceilingFANBOY
05/07/09

@coyote1284: When's the last time you saw adult movies at a Wal-Mart? (I'm working through college and live in the middle of nowhere) Wal-Mart recalled the movie Teeth because it was too risque.
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subsider34
05/06/09

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While I hate the encryption/DRM/Pain in the A**, I also have to point out the worst problem with VOD solutions. Downloading/Buffering times. If I want to rent a movie, I could go to blockbuster and get it, come back and start watching in about 15 min. Or I could spend hours anxiously waiting for my VOD movie to download so I could watch it. In addition, VOD doesn't include any of the special features that DVDs or Blueray include. I like both, but when I want to see a movie RIGHT NOW I feel that Blueray is the best choice (HD DVD is nice too).
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Wilson Rothman
05/06/09

@subsider34: My Netflix and other VOD apps start playing pretty much instantaneously, actually—even the so-called HD stuff. Comcast cable, 20Mbps downstream, good but nothing extra special.
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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
05/06/09

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Once you work with computers and the general public, you understand how much most people don't know about this tech stuff. At best buy I'd get people saying "my friend has the internet installed on her computer and when I go to the internet button it wont go to the internet. this is why I hate vista"

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Koztah
05/06/09

@darkstar misses his preview button:

Most people, even those who use computers every day, are apparently so terrified of them that they lose half their IQ when in the presence of one.
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ChunkAhoy
05/06/09

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The problem is not the price of the player, ITS THE PRICE OF THE MOVIES. Wake up, GOOSSSHHHH !!
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ceilingFANBOY
05/06/09

@ChunkAhoy: Compare the blu-ray movie prices to the special edition DVDs that they are truly equal to and the price difference is not that big. In fact, I've seen some blu-ray movies sell for less than their DVD equivalents. Also, one problem with pricing is that retailers know that they can sell blu-ray at MSRP because the people buying blu-ray movies are the type that won't worry about the extra cost in order to get the movie right now. However, most movies can be found much cheaper than they are sold for at the stores online rather quickly.
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Diddle my Skittles
05/07/09

@ChunkAhoy: This comment is said in every god damn Blu-ray thread, and I wish to god Gizmodo would have the balls to do what every other blog and forum does to these idiots...BAN THEM, BAN THEM TO OBLIVION.

Let's point out the obvious, I'm your standard Blu-ray user. Here's my setup

Samsung 67inch LED DLP - $2100

Pioneer Elite VSX-94TXH - $1600

4 Aperion Audio Intimus 533-PT Powered Tower Speakers - $550 each

1 Aperion Audio Intimus 634-VAC Center Channel Speaker - $400

160GB PS3 - $499

Wires and Cables - $200

Plus an Xbox 360, a Wii, and a Mac Mini.

Point is this, if you can afford a normal home theater setup, you're not bitching and whining about $20. Seriously, don't be one of the clueless peons who buys a Mercedes, then slaps on Les Schwab radials and Jiffy Lube oil changes.
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ceilingFANBOY
05/07/09

@I love my AfricanAmericanBerry: We don't really need you to show off how much money you spent on your home theater. The point of the comment was that the cost of the movies is what is keeping the average person from buying into blu-ray. I think the majority of people that can afford to spend as much money as you have on your setup already have blu-ray players because they are the type that doesn't need to know shit about what they are buying, they are just going to walk into Best Buy and say to give them the best things money can buy.
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Diddle my Skittles
05/07/09

@ceilingFANBOY: Wow, you sure done put me in my place. I didn't know a DLP television was high quality expensive shit. I guess you also think that eating at Quizno's is fancy eatin's.

As for the price of the movies, well, let me answer that with story time. 10 years or more ago, I bought my first DVD player. It was a Panasonic deck, pre-progressive scan era. The first two movies I got were The Fifth Element, and Robocop. Robocop was $25, and Fifth Element was $30.

So yeah, your point about the price of media is moot. People will buy it, like everything else, if they want it.
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ceilingFANBOY
05/07/09

@I love my AfricanAmericanBerry: I am pretty sure that I never said anything about your TV being high quality expensive shit. That being said, though, you did spend over $7000 on your entire setup, which is not what the average person does. There are plenty of people that have blu-ray players that did not spend nearly the amount that you have on their home theater setup. Therefore, the point about the price of the movies preventing people from buying them is still valid.
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bosskev
05/06/09

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"Hopefully, people at least bought upgradeable players like so many are these days."

Or they just bought a PS3, as I did in December of 2006. Still current for Blu-ray specs and should remain so into the future due to updatable firmware.
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Sir Gibler
05/06/09

@bosskev: PS3 is probably the best player on the market. cheap price, media storage, wifi, easy to update, and of course.... its a friggin playstation on top of all that!
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The Lab
05/06/09

@Sir Gibler: Cheap price? I mean, you get more features for your money with a PS3 but there is no arguing that it has a higher base price than any Blu-Ray player by a substantial margin.
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bosskev
05/06/09

@The Lab: True, a higher price now, but that wasn't the case back in 2006.
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ceilingFANBOY
05/06/09

@bosskev: I purchased mine the day they had their first price drop. Had it not been for Kotaku keeping me informed as to when the price was probably going to drop, I may have bought even earlier.

@Sir Gibler: I think there is a Pioneer player that gets better reviews for having a few extra features, but I think that one is also close to $1000. Then again, with firmware updates, there is also a chance that the PS3 could eventually support the few codecs that it doesn't support right now.

@MudkipPPC: Welcome to Desolate Tatsumairi: And for those of us who actually have a nice sound system with HDMI passthrough, there is the ability to play SACD. Honestly, though, except to play Katamari, I haven't played any PS2 games on the PS3 and I don't own any SACDs because I just recently found out that the older PS3s have SACD playback.
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Sir Gibler
05/06/09

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the only problem i find myself getting into with blu-ray is the inability to use BD's in the car/bedroom/laptop. anywhere other than my living room or my PS3 its just an expensive piece of plastic. and the only company thats selling blu-ray like they should is disney (digital copy, dvd, and BD combo) but im not a 4th grader so im out of luck
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Microshock
05/06/09

@Sir Gibler:

Agree, i wanted to show my Grandma the beauty of Casino Royale but she only has a dvd player, and i don't want to do a lot of converting and then burn it.

It should've had backwards compatibility somehow, i think that thats a huge reason why it's not doing as well as it could , even though its doing well.

But at least anyone with a ps3 can play it!
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AZRoboto
05/06/09

@Sir Gibler:

With the laptop solution, most Blu Ray movies come out with Digital Copies nowadays.
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Koztah
05/06/09

@AZRoboto:

Indeed. I just got The Matrix on BR the other day and it came with a digital copy. Which IMO is pointless when I can just download (or make) a nice h.264 copy at full res.

Illegal? Maybe. But since I've paid for the movie, my conscience is clear.
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ceilingFANBOY
05/06/09

@Microshock: Sounds like you have a pretty cool grandma.
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