The color of Blu-ray

[zombieking]

And yet some displays like Walmart are an utter mess

[Spider1981]

Well then, at least Blu-Ray and HD DVD could agree on one thing

[kamiller42]

My friend asked me today why DVD Forum chose red for HD DVD and BDA chose blue for Blu-Ray when both technologies use a blue-violet laser. I don't know. I told him red was chosen for HD DVD because it was created by Satan.

Anyone know the real answer?

[Manco]

It's meant to show the backwards compatibility with traditional DVD which is based on Red Laser technology.

But don't tell your friend that. As far as the outside world is concerned...YES...Satan contols HD-DVD. Show them some scary scriptures from the Book of Revelations or something.

[SlapnutsGT]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

My friend asked me today why DVD Forum chose red for HD DVD and BDA chose blue for Blu-Ray when both technologies use a blue-violet laser. I don't know. I told him red was chosen for HD DVD because it was created by Satan.

Anyone know the real answer?

My guess here is just because blu ray you think the color BLUE, and red is the opposite and well since they compete against each other it makes sense, plus the HD DVD boxs are red

[clownface]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

My friend asked me today why DVD Forum chose red for HD DVD and BDA chose blue for Blu-Ray when both technologies use a blue-violet laser. I don't know. I told him red was chosen for HD DVD because it was created by Satan.

Anyone know the real answer?

HILARIOUS!!! LMAO!!!

[glenn22]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

My friend asked me today why DVD Forum chose red for HD DVD and BDA chose blue for Blu-Ray when both technologies use a blue-violet laser. I don't know. I told him red was chosen for HD DVD because it was created by Satan.

Anyone know the real answer?

Well think about what things are red. Blood is red, Fire is reddish, and Wine is red... I don't think that's by accident. HD-DVDs are bloody awful, if you buy one you get burned and they making you start drinking.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by glenn22

Well think about what things are red. Blood is red, Fire is reddish, and Wine is red... I don't think that's by accident. HD-DVDs are bloody awful, if you buy one you get burned and they making you start drinking.

Well red is the most flamboyant color for the human psyche and sends a Warning! Alert! Look at me! signal to the brain because, in ancient times, if you saw lots of red near you, something was terribly wrong, or dying.

[Anthony P]

the packages are roughly (let's face it even all BD packages are not exactly the same) the same because they wanted something that would fit the disk but was different so that people don't get confused, they also wanted something that looked a bit fancier. In the end there are not that many choices and they both picked similar designs.

As to the colours HD DVD could not pick Blue, and my guess is that someone had a sense of humour and picked red to mean "STOP, DANGER don't be an idiot and buy this"

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Well red is the most flamboyant color for the human psyche and sends a Warning! Alert! Look at me! signal to the brain because, in ancient times, if you saw lots of red near you, something was terribly wrong, or dying.

Still means the same thing, their format is dying.

[gvortex7]

In the metaphysics of the New Age Prophetess, Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical personality types, the first ray of will-power is represented by the color blue. People who have this metaphysical personality type are said to be on the Blue Ray.

This is one way of looking at blue.

[Grisle]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

I told him red was chosen for HD DVD because it was created by Satan.

I found this funny!

[reiella]

Originally Posted by zombieking

And yet some displays like Walmart are an utter mess

And those that break form factor pay for it with walmart.

Did you ever wonder why one year, we just stopped seeing the big boxes for pc video games, and instead the smaller dvd boxset sized cases?

[MOONPHASE]

well with blu-ray, blue color it just seems to make sense and yeah i will have to agree with the person for hd-dvd that the red color is because it came from satan but red could of been chose randomally

[Xerious]

it's not red... it's kinda like a burgandy... kinda flaming... just like the perverbal fire in which the format now burns...

[SS316SRV]

I didn't think it mattered that muc

But, as mentioned a couple of times, I think Satan has something to do with it.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Xerious

it's not red... it's kinda like a burgandy... kinda flaming... just like the perverbal fire in which the format now burns...

I beg to differ. More of a burgandy-brown. The color of crap, much like it and the formats before it.

In my heart I know blu-ray is the best HD video experience a consumer can get, but I would have thought 2 and 3 times about it if it came in that color. Ugh. I still want to backlight my blu-ray discs.

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by tron3

I beg to differ. More of a burgandy-brown. The color of crap, much like it and the formats before it.

In my heart I know blu-ray is the best HD video experience a consumer can get, but I would have thought 2 and 3 times about it if it came in that color. Ugh. I still want to backlight my blu-ray discs.

If you crap that color, you better run to the doctor.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Rob71

If you crap that color, you better run to the doctor.

Now I crap blu.

[CptGreedle]

Originally Posted by Rob71

If you crap that color, you better run to the doctor.

If you crap either color you'd better run to the doctor :P