You have to stop thinking like an engineer and start thinking like a consumer sometimes. A consumer does not care which has a greater capacity if both do the same thing. What good is a 4GB memory stick when the file you want to save on it is always 512MB?
In terms of movies, there is actually perceived value in multi-disc sets, so the capacity issue is largely without merit.
CED had a price advantage over laserdisc, but more than that, it was mass-distributed...sold by every dealer who carried RCA. I think it's safe to say that there was a massive difference in the number of RCA dealers versus the number of Pioneer dealers in those days. I also think it's safe to say that at least half those who purchased CED players did not even know of the existence of laserdisc!
On 15-Jan-08, at 12:22 PM, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
John Golitsis wrote:How is Blu-ray the better format, exactly? It has a higher disc capacity, but at the expense of higher replication prices. It's version 2.0 - which should start becoming available in the 2nd half of 2008 - is equivalent to HD DVD 1.0 which began shipping in 2006. It's minimum audio requirement is plain old Dolby Digital, where HD DVD's is DD+. Oh, and keep in mind that 1.0 players aren't upgradable to even 1.1, let alone 2.0 (with the exception of the PS3).The disc capacity is ultimately what matters most, I think. That's why I said "potential." I expect, for instance, that one of these formats willsoon replace DVD drives in PCs. Clearly, the more dense of the two formats also makes the most sense in that PC application too. Years from now, the fact that HD-DVDs might have been cheaper to press with modified older DVD equipment won't matter to anyone. And that was the only design advantage of HD-DVD. I see this a bit like the Chinese going for CD-V initially, instead of DVD, because CD-Vs were cheaper. Not for long they weren't. They soon became obsolete relics.If it weren't for the PS3, Blu-ray would have been absolutely still-born. Look at the attach-rate today...there are about 8 Blu-ray capable players out there for every 1 HD DVD capable player, yet the software sales are 2:1. The POTENTIAL is clearly on the HD DVD side because if you get more players into homes, you'll sell more discs per player.Or, they could both die.Back in the days of CED discs vs Laserdisc, obviously Laserdisc was thebetter of the two. Yet, CEDs are all that the rental places seemed tocarry, so they actually survived for a few short years. I see this a bitlike more HD-DVDs out there than Blu-ray, in the short term. In the end, neither format ever reached any sort of critical mass, and both withered away. CEDs went away faster, though, and deservedly so.Had rental places carried Laserdics, I think that format would have beenfar more successful than CED ever was. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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