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bryaaaant · 09-07-2007, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by tron3

What is FUD? I keep seeing that thrown around.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jermwhl

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

Propaganda used against a competing product to gain advantage.

Eg.:
HD-DVD: "Blu-ray yield rates are low and in turn will result in its downfall."
HD-DVD: "BD-50 is science fiction."
HD-DVD: "Compressed and lossless audio are of the same quality."
HD-DVD: "The encoding format that Blu-ray uses is inferior to ours."
Any Rob Enderle article.

Blu-ray San · 09-07-2007, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tron3

What is FUD? I keep seeing that thrown around.

Thanks!! I was wondering the same

Digital Filmmaker · 09-07-2007, 08:55 PM

Here I thought FUD meant F****d Up Data.

TruBlu2 · 09-07-2007, 09:32 PM

They will not pay more for to long. This is certain. They need to be very precise in regards to the pricing of BD.

PS3 needs to drop to 399 to 449, respectively. on Oct. 1st

Stand alones need to be 249- 349, respectively. on Nov. 1st

Units will move at these prices for NOW. Further price cuts will need to happen in the future.

Case in point PS2--compare dates and pricing in regards to units sold.

Learn this lesson.

Tru Blu

gvortex7 · 09-07-2007, 09:33 PM

Some of the recently released dvd's look really good upconverted on my Blu-ray player. But they're still not Blu-rays. That's pretty evident.

Luis_A51 · 09-07-2007, 09:58 PM

I agree that "threat" is an extremely poor word. Virtually everone thats bought into HDM will not go back to dvd. And slowly but surely more and more people are buying into HDM, and of course the rate will increase once HDDVD dies off.

Will blu-ray kill off dvd in a few years? Probably not, but it will be at a big enough level that we will see a great amount of titles.

HDM will not die off, since theres far too much money to be made by studios and CE companies. Theres no money to be made in DVD by CE companies, and thats why they support bluray (and also why they dont support hddvd, theres no profits for them in that either). Same with studios, they make probably $5-15 more per BR than DVD, and they're hoping that they'll see a decline in piracy with BD+.

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09-07-2007, 08:55 PM	#23
Digital Filmmaker Active Member Member since:Mar 2006 4K collection:183 Blu-ray collection:1588 DVD collection:405	Here I thought FUD meant F****d Up Data.

09-07-2007, 09:32 PM	#24
TruBlu2 Senior Member Member since:Aug 2007 Blu-ray reviews:1	They will not pay more for to long. This is certain. They need to be very precise in regards to the pricing of BD. PS3 needs to drop to 399 to 449, respectively. on Oct. 1st Stand alones need to be 249- 349, respectively. on Nov. 1st Units will move at these prices for NOW. Further price cuts will need to happen in the future. Case in point PS2--compare dates and pricing in regards to units sold. Learn this lesson. Tru Blu

09-07-2007, 09:33 PM	#25
gvortex7 Blu-ray Champion Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Fort Lauderdale, FL Blu-ray reviews: 18 Trading Score:105	Some of the recently released dvd's look really good upconverted on my Blu-ray player. But they're still not Blu-rays. That's pretty evident.

09-07-2007, 09:58 PM	#26
Luis_A51 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jun 2007 Location:Calgary, AB Blu-ray reviews:4	I agree that "threat" is an extremely poor word. Virtually everone thats bought into HDM will not go back to dvd. And slowly but surely more and more people are buying into HDM, and of course the rate will increase once HDDVD dies off. Will blu-ray kill off dvd in a few years? Probably not, but it will be at a big enough level that we will see a great amount of titles. HDM will not die off, since theres far too much money to be made by studios and CE companies. Theres no money to be made in DVD by CE companies, and thats why they support bluray (and also why they dont support hddvd, theres no profits for them in that either). Same with studios, they make probably $5-15 more per BR than DVD, and they're hoping that they'll see a decline in piracy with BD+.

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