News HD-DVD player is pushed back

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/03/27/hd_dvd_player_delay/

 

Unless I have to choose one over the other a short while after release, I'll wait until one does a betamax, or until someone does one drive/player that'll do them both.

- H.

 

untill i can afford a hdtv, no point. So i'll see when that time comes, few yrs off proberly

 

I just plain haven't got £3000 to spend on a new AV system...

 

I don't see any advantage over DVD's and I imagine a lot of people won't either, for a good few years yet.

 

I can see its advantages, aside from the higher quality video, when writers become available as you will be able to back up most of your hard drive onto one disk - something I would love to be able to do.

The thing is though, it will be a while before this technology comes down in price and does start to become mainstream. Unless you can justify the spending of a couple of grand now on a film or two that may become obselete if the format you back loses then there is just no incentive to buy into this at this stage.

I think the ultimate winner of the format wars will be whoever comes up with the best marketing campaign - the average consumer does not know or care about which format is technically superior, and at the end of the day it is going to be the average consumer that determines which format is going to win.

 

Until I see some more affordable 1080p native projectors and high-end hybrid (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) players I'm not buying anything.

 

All this new fangled hd dvd/blu-ray/holography dvd stuff.. Doesn't it seem rather transitional at the moment?

What I mean is, back when CD's hit the shops ('82 wasnt it?) and then DVDs, they truly were a sight to behold - "huge" capacities and very shiny. "How could it get bigger? Why would they need to?"

Now it's the same sort of thing - however, the capacities AREN'T that much bigger - 20-50gigs - in comparison to the size of modern HDDs. We're a bit spoiled nowadays with the ease of modern HDD capacities.

I would love to get me a nice HD-DVD setup and/or a Blu-Ray or the inPhase(tm) Holography discs, etc. But it just doesnt seem to have that much of a shelf life to me.

Instead, I would bet highly on solid-state devices like tiny flash rams holding 100's of gigs if not tBytes, what with advancements in nano tech.

Why would you want a big clunky mechanism motor for "spinning" a piece of plastic much like the old LP players, when you could just slap a small coin sized flash ram into a slot which contains 100's of HD movies?

Think I'll wait...

 

It is unlikely you will see the new holodisk 300gig capacity medium from maxell entering market anytime soon, even though the techology is available it is most likely going to be held back until the next generation of Ultra High Definition Film releases.
As it stands now HD DVD and BluRay has just enough capacity to hold 1080p film title and it was designed to do just that, at double layer it will hold a bit of extra footage and what not, 5 years down the line when HD becomes the defacto standard they will likely release the last Ultra Definition probably dubbed True Def or TD Disks at roughly 2600p resolution we will finally own movies that are equal to their digital masters this last High Def format will most likely be released on the next generation of High Capacity Disk such as the Maxell Holodisks or any other future holographic optical mediums and will most likely be the one format with the longest shelf life as they will allow us to own 1:1 uncompressed versions of the film scans.