February 12, 200818 yr Thats nothing; I own a blu ray player, and in one circumstance (Live Free or Die Hard) I still cant even play Blu-Ray Yup, everything that I've read leads me to believe that the only Blu-Ray player worth buying right now is a PS-3 and that's not going to happen for me any time soon. Hopefully, low-cost, standard configuration, reliable players will be in the near future or both formats could die.
February 12, 200818 yr Blame Samsung not the blu-ray format. The Samsung blu-ray players are notoriously shitty. I've had zero issues playing blu-ray discs with my PS3. Ironically enough, lately I've had a bunch of problems with my toshiba hd-a35 and hd-dvd's. Yeah, I meant to pass my anger towards the player. All the other movies have been flawless. I'm done with Samsung. Im trying to pawn it off on my parents, and get a PS3 for when I move out (hopefully after an update)
February 15, 200818 yr another: http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/wal-mart-to-officially-discontinue-hd-dvd-sales-by-june/
February 16, 200818 yr Toshiba is done with HD-DVD: http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/toshiba-pulling-the-plug-on-hd-dvd-already/
February 16, 200818 yr Hopefully now we will start getting a decent amount of movies released. Especially old movies, like Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, etc.
February 16, 200818 yr Cool, it's nice they figured out it wasn't going anywhere and dropped it rather than limping along for years in a futile bid to recoup losses. Good move Toshiba. PS3 here I come
February 16, 200818 yr Cool, it's nice they figured out it wasn't going anywhere and dropped it rather than limping along for years in a futile bid to recoup losses. Good move Toshiba. PS3 here I come PS3 FTW
February 17, 200818 yr Hopefully now we will start getting a decent amount of movies released. Especially old movies, like Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, etc. Those are my thoughts exactly but I was thinking more on the lines of art movies that had shitty DVD transfers. Herzog's library in particular but also Andrei Tarkovsky's and Elem Klimov's movies. I know we're still years off from any of those movies from making it to blu-ray but it was certainly not going to happen while there was a format war brewing.
February 17, 200818 yr Movies that didn't rate a good dvd transfer probably won't get a good bluray transfer.
February 17, 200818 yr Movies that didn't rate a good dvd transfer probably won't get a good bluray transfer. I know that they won't be as good as, let's say, kubrik's collection but transferring movies to digital is a lot easier and cheaper to do than when those movies were transfered to DVD. I'm not expecting a lot but herzog's movies look like VHS quality on DVD. They deserve better not just for posterity but because they are wonderfully atmospheric and look great when I've seen them on 16 and 32mm. Alright, this is turning into a diatribe - I'm going to shut up now.
February 17, 200818 yr MGS4 will get me to buy a PS3, there's no fighting my inner MGS fanboy I read that they're porting metal gear solid 4 over to the atari 2600 so you might want to save your money.
February 17, 200818 yr Wow, so the PS3 is the only decent Bluray player? I was considering buying a player now that the "war" is over, and figured I'd head to this thread first for recommendations. I guess the fact that the PS3 can update itself through its internet capabilities is a big plus. $400 seems crazy for a game system I might never use, but for a game system I might never use AND a bluray player, it doesn't seem so bad.
February 17, 200818 yr Wow, so the PS3 is the only decent Bluray player? I was considering buying a player now that the "war" is over, and figured I'd head to this thread first for recommendations. I guess the fact that the PS3 can update itself through its internet capabilities is a big plus. $400 seems crazy for a game system I might never use, but for a game system I might never use AND a bluray player, it doesn't seem so bad. Well yeah. Along with the Bluray it's also a DVD, SACD player, media center, web browser, video player, Wi-Fi etc. And it can update itself. Much better value than any stand alone player plus digital and optical audio out. Slap a bluetooth keyboard/mouse on it and you have a pretty powerful media computer with a decent amount of storage. What's not to like. Even without Bluray it's pretty damn good IMO.
February 17, 200818 yr Well yeah. Along with the Bluray it's also a DVD, SACD player, media center, web browser, video player, Wi-Fi etc. And it can update itself. Much better value than any stand alone player plus digital and optical audio out. Slap a bluetooth keyboard/mouse on it and you have a pretty powerful media computer with a decent amount of storage. What's not to like. Even without Bluray it's pretty damn good IMO. Give this guy a Sony MoT tag motmotmotmotmotmot
February 17, 200818 yr Give this guy a Sony MoT tag motmotmotmotmotmot Ack!!! I hadn't thought of that. I was blabbing my own opinion but I do work for a Sony company making games. I just never thought of myself as Sony
February 17, 200818 yr I am absolutely in love with the media center capabilities. If they would only add support for FLAC, I'd be in heaven.
February 17, 200818 yr Just a word of warning, supposedly the 40GB PS3 doesn't support SACD. The older models and the 80GB one do.
February 19, 200818 yr Yup, heard it in NPR on the way to work this morning and hadn't remembered to post about it yet. Toshiba has pulled the plug, I wonder how bad this is going to f over some retailers...
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