More crappy articles by people that should know better

[garytma]

Have you folks seen this "advisory"?

http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles...or_blu-ray.php

As with all products, what will "sell" anything is acceptance on a large scale- not just enthusiastic adoption by movie/techno fans like us. Take it from an early adopter of Betamax, Kloss Videobeam, minidisc, laserdisc.

Though I am much delighted to see Wal-Mart TV ads promoting Spiderman 3 on Blu-ray ("also available on DVD")! I am afraid articles like this, from HD Magazine could be very damaging to the Blu Cause.

Any thoughts dear insiders?

[Teazle]

Originally Posted by garytma

Have you folks seen this "advisory"?

http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles...or_blu-ray.php

As with all products, what will "sell" anything is acceptance on a large scale- not just enthusiastic adoption by movie/techno fans like us. Take it from an early adopter of Betamax, Kloss Videobeam, minidisc, laserdisc.

Though I am much delighted to see Wal-Mart TV ads promoting Spiderman 3 on Blu-ray ("also available on DVD")! I am afraid articles like this, from HD Magazine could be very damaging to the Blu Cause.

Any thoughts dear insiders?

We are yet to see the magazine article which, in your words, "could be very damaging" to the Blu-ray cause. For that matter was there any magazine article very damaging to the causes of Betamax, Kloss Videobeam, Minidisc or Laserdisc? The pen is mighty, but not that mighty.

[Bullseye]

Thats just another blog from someone who obviously cares little for audio and future proofing. He makes no mention of the HD-DVD 51gb which by all accounts including Toshibas will not play on current players.

[Beta-guy]

"Both HD DVD and Blu-ray can support bitrates in excess of 36Mbit/s."

HD-DVD is limited to 30.24 Mbit/s for A/V playback according to wikipedia, while BD can do 48 Mbit/s A/V playback again from wikipedia

[garytma]

Originally Posted by Teazle

We are yet to see the magazine article which, in your words, "could be very damaging" to the Blu-ray cause. For that matter was there any magazine article very damaging to the causes of Betamax, Kloss Videobeam, Minidisc or Laserdisc? The pen is mighty, but not that mighty.

By no means do I believe that one article can kill a format. But many can influence the masses, and the masses are what will make any format a success!

[quetzalcoatl]

How about the fact he cannot even get simple facts straight. FW updates via ethernet. Every Pioneer can do it samsung back to the 1200 can do it. And this is from someone who knows tech. He edited it to include the 1400 but none of the other models.

[Banjo]

and this is on a HDTV magazine website? Tsk.

[bluseminole]

Thank god someone was there to unplug the computer before I read enough to spew all over the table...

How can anyone in good conscience make those recommendations to people who will be spending their hard earned money?

That is just low. The one thing I admire about Blu-ray and the BDA is that they have consistently made arguments that are factually supported. Business ethics are hard to come by, but up to this point, the BDA is about as close to practicing them as any major company/organization I've seen. Give people facts, and let them choose.

Sony is playing this one smart.

[cking2729]

Originally Posted by garytma

Have you folks seen this "advisory"?

http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles...or_blu-ray.php

That "advisory" is chocked full of crap. In the first paragraph of the article he states "This won't be your typical Blu-Ray v. HD-DVD article," and then proceeds to make it exactly that. He makes a huge deal out of the HD-DVD standardization and tries to make it sound like you are making a safe long term investment with HD-DVD because they have lax copy protection and TrueHD tracks. When he points out Blu's advantages, they come with "ifs, ors, and buts." Then he goes out of his way to label Blu-Ray's superiority in hardware, software, and technical capabilities as "purely mythical." Pure idiocy.

I've seen plenty of biased and fanboy articles in my day, but this one especially pisses me off because it says "I'm not gonna get into bickering between the two different sides......but here I go anyway." Luckily your average buyer doesn't read hdtvmagazine

[SS316SRV]

It was a crappy article. He laid out all kinds of reasons why to buy HD DVD, he just never stated what the other side of it is. Like "Less copy protection is good because of faster load times. But without copy protection, studio support is lacking". He didn't give HD DVD the same treatment as Blu-ray. I do like how he never mentioned that because of the lack of capacity, advanced audio tracks and HD Special Features are rare.