For reference, there are Also, Blu-Ray technology will change the way we see movies and high definition videos. Although the Blu-Ray disc players are costlier at the moment, they are expected to become less expensive as the production increases.
Before switching to this new technology, you should make sure that the new Blu-Ray disc player plays your traditional DVDs too. Manufacturers and video content producers have yet to embrace this technology on a large scale and not all video content is available on Blu-Ray discs. If all that techno-speak makes your eyes glaze over, translated into practical terms, this means HDTV owners can record their favorite broadcast without any quality loss.
When it comes to the future of video formats, Blu-Ray is not the only whale in the fish tank. Remember the days of VHS versus Betamax?
Customers didn't know which type of machine to buy while that battle raged. Due to the conflict between both the two camps, content owners are divided as well. That means you have to be careful when you buy or rent a movie. And which discs will work in your player? Blu-Ray technology is poised to change the digital world. But Blu-Ray may flop in the marketplace, just like Betamax, even though it was regarded as technically superior.
My advice is to stick with plain old DVDs for a while. Let the technology and entertainment behemoths duke it out, and hopefully we'll end up with a winner or a compromise in the next year or so. This article was posted by Bob Rankin on 30 Mar Posted by: David 03 Apr As you mention, BluRay requires other technology to play them.
Its better technology in certain ways but not backwardly compatible. HD players are also cheaper to make and are more broadly licensed. Same sort of issue as with Betamax. There is talk of dual format discs but LG has released a dual format player - it will handle all 3 types of DVD's. Perhaps that will be the solution? Posted by: Warren Betanko 03 Apr If you double-side it which is possible , that goes to 60 GB. Posted by: John 12 Apr OK so you can double side it.
Blu-Ray was designed to be re-writable on all layers! HD is not. Posted by: David 20 Nov Bob, we must be of the same generation. I stumbled across your article today and i have talked a number of people out of buying a blue ray player using the VHS-Beta wars as reference, plus they don't play the dvd's you might already own.
Good article. I appreciated the one on SAT tv for the pc also. Glad i found your page before i purchased. I live in Europe and am looking for a way to watch football and nascar. Nascar you can subscribe to like baseball, but not football.
Posted by: Michael Hughes 10 Dec Its all very well fighting the numbers game over which disk can store most. But the main consumer application is recording and watching pre-recorded films. I don't need Gb to do that. Any DVD is good enoguh for that. Posted by: Scott 07 Jun I am on my 3rd Dell Desk Top. The first one completely crashed and Dell did send two diffreent techs out to my home to repair.
Both times, the Techs. Dell sent a replacement about 7 weeks later I received an XPS It was missing my TV card as well as a few other things that my original PC had. By NPD's count, streaming players sales from A recent Deloitte study shows that in the past 10 years the number of households subscribing to paid streaming-video services has grown by nearly percent.
The market's increase in streaming and Samsung's imminent integration of both AirPlay and iTunes into its TV streaming platform directly mitigates the need for a player. While this makes perfect business sense, as someone who's been collecting video since the VHS days, this move leaves me cold. I have many movies and TV shows that are unlikely to ever be available on a stream. Besides, as ReelGood , a company, which tracks streaming services, recently observed Netflix and the like don't actually have that many movies in their libraries.
Amazon has the most with 12,, followed by Netflix with 3,, and Hulu with 1, Even with all those titles there's little crossover between them and what's actually available changes at the beginning of every month. This means that to make sure you can stream the most popular recent movies, you need subscriptions to all three services.
Oh, make that four, with Disney launching its own streaming channel , with exclusive rights to Disney, Star Wars, and Marvel Cinematic Universe films, you'll probably want to subscribe to it as well. Eighteen thousand movies may sound like a lot. It's not. Sure, if you're looking for movies from the last 10 years, chances are you'll find it.
But, as the screenwriter John August has pointed out with every decade you dive into the past, there are fewer and fewer movies available.
I wouldn't call myself a cinephile. That's too fancy a term for me. But I do love movies from the pre-code movies days of the early 30s to today. I want to be able to watch these movies when I want to watch them, not when and if they show up on a streaming service. Thanks to tape and optical media, I've been able to do that.
Soon, my ability to watch them will be crippled. Usually technology enriches our lives. This time, the business of technology will be robbing us of our cultural history and the simple pleasure of watching older movies and TV shows.
View Full Term. By clicking sign up, you agree to receive emails from Techopedia and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. A Blu-ray disk BD is a high-capacity optical disk medium developed for recording, rewriting and playing back high definition video. It can store large amounts of data and was designed to supersede the DVD.
Blu-ray was jointly developed by a group of personal computer and consumer electronics companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association. Blu-ray disks support higher resolutions and more advanced video and audio formats compared to DVDs.
Blu-ray technology gets its name from the blue-violet laser that is used to read Blu-ray disks. Compared to a DVD, Blu-ray also provides much higher resolution; while a DVD with standard definition can provide definition of x pixels, Blu-ray high definition has X pixel resolution. By: Dr.
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