Blu-ray to Truly Take over in 2012?

[J_UNTITLED]

According to MultiMedia Intelligence, they say it is likely.

[FIDDYPOP]

By 2012 another format may be on the horizon. Blu rules now!

[nycomet]

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.

Hmmm... sounds like a premise for a movie.

[Sonny]

4 years from now lol

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by nycomet

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.

Hmmm... sounds like a premise for a movie.

The Mayans would be very disappointed to know that December 22, 2012 will proceed after that day just as planned.


By the by, two films are already in development based around the Mayan-calendar-hoopla.

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by FIDDYPOP

By 2012 another format may be on the horizon. Blu rules now!

theres always a new format in the works,most don't see the light of day.

[ckenisell]

Originally Posted by J_UNTITLED

The Mayans would be very disappointed to know that December 22, 2012 will proceed after that day just as planned.


By the by, two films are already in development based around the Mayan-calendar-hoopla.

Anybody remember Y2K?!

[Blu n Gold]

Originally Posted by nycomet

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by ckenisell

Anybody remember Y2K?!

Ah, memories.

[sardaukar1977]

Originally Posted by nycomet

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.

Hmmm... sounds like a premise for a movie.

We're doomed!

[J_UNTITLED]

This somehow has gotten way off topic... .

[jj5206]

[QUOTE=nycomet;666288]12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.
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2012 is also the year that my Chicago Cub's are supposed to win the world series

[Lord_Phan]

[QUOTE=jj5206;666325]

Originally Posted by nycomet

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.
QUOTE]


2012 is also the year that my Chicago Cub's are supposed to win the world series

which causes the end of the universe?

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Blu n Gold

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

Eventually everyone does.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by nycomet

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.

Hmmm... sounds like a premise for a movie.

That is the day that the sun in perspective from the earth comes in line with the center of the milky way galaxy. That is why the calendar ends at this point, because it is a significant celestial event.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by FIDDYPOP

By 2012 another format may be on the horizon. Blu rules now!

What would be the market forces driving development of a new format? 1080p isn't even being broadcast yet. The networks are either 720p or 1080i. Since the best HDTVs are 1080p, why would there be a use or need for something better than Blu-ray?

[Blu n Gold]

Originally Posted by radagast

Eventually everyone does.

Forty years of darkness, rivers and seas boiling. Earthquakes valcanos. The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hystaria.

[Y3k Bug]

Originally Posted by ckenisell

Anybody remember Y2K?!

fun times.

[CptGreedle]

Originally Posted by nycomet

12-21-12 is the date the Mayan calendar ends -- and some say -- so will life on Earth.

Hmmm... sounds like a premise for a movie.

It is not the end of anything. Sure the Mayan Calendar "ends", but it actually cycles. Numbers were a very big and sacred thing to the Mayans. They used an unusual count system called the Long Cycle which has a total of 1872000 days (or 13.0.0.0.0, or 13 baktuns). From the day the Long Cycle started it will end on 12/21/12 at noon. However this is a calendar for measuring winter solstices and the like, not a counter for the end of time. It is amazing to see how accurately they predicted the convergence (alignment) of our sun (Sol) and the Galactic Equator (center of the Milky Way).
Don't get me wrong here... the Mayans were amazing people, and very smart. However I met an actual Mayan (descended from the Mayan people at Tulum) and he told me that the calendar is not the end of the world, but a renewal of the cycle that involves a renewal of life as well.
I for one will read up more on this, and maybe I'll do something to celebrate it, but it is in no way the end of time.

Heh.. got way off topic again didn't we. So about those Blu-rays!
I hope Blu-ray gained more acceptance than that. I want to see a drastic shift toward blu-ray in 2010. But I can see how 2012 is a good year for Blu-ray.

[Phane]

2012 wouldn't be too bad a time for Blu-ray to outsell DVD. Blu-ray is starting with a much smaller market than DVD (only worthwhile to people with HDTV's), so any forecast that it will eclipse DVD at all is a good one.