> The best thing I've gotten from my BluRay is NetFlix. I > have a $10/ month deal with them, I've connected an ethernet > cable to BluRay from my router and viola! I have instant > on demand of more than 10,000 movies and TV shows. I'm almost > ready to give Direct the heave ho.
Do all the BluRay's have that? I was about to buy one of those $100 boxes from Netflix but if the BluRays have the Netflix, I'll get one.
Like no one answered your fuckin' question, dude! Blue ray is a ray that's fuckin' blue! How hard is that? Vertical and horizontal lines is for Willie's stripper girlfriends. Stop smoking that Mexican ditch weed, you homies, just answer PP's questions, like straight.
On Nov 3, 5:07 pm, "Jerry Sturdivant" <jerr...@cox.net> wrote:
> "Ramashiva Jr"
> > The best thing I've gotten from my BluRay is NetFlix. I > > have a $10/ month deal with them, I've connected an ethernet > > cable to BluRay from my router and viola! I have instant > > on demand of more than 10,000 movies and TV shows. I'm almost > > ready to give Direct the heave ho.
> Do all the BluRay's have that? I was about to buy one of those $100 boxes > from Netflix but if the BluRays have the Netflix, I'll get one.
> Jerry 'n Vegas
> - Ride The Wave!
Only certain models can hook up to Netflix (You Tube also), and they're made by Sanyo or LG. This is the one I got for less than $150, that works out to $100 for those streaming boxes and $50 for a BluRay.
> Only certain models can hook up to Netflix (You Tube also), and > they're made by Sanyo or LG. This is the one I got for less than $150, > that works out to $100 for those streaming boxes and $50 for a BluRay.
It is a format of disk that uses blue lasers which both allow more information to be stored in the same location, and provides a new programming language, much sturdier DRM, ability to program out certain players, and a different manufacturing method than DVD's. There is also strong specifications for the player, how it treats memory, and programmability. There is also a standard called Blu-Ray Plus. Which I think there are only two players that meet this standard, the PS3, and a high-end standalone model.
Blu-ray, is not inherently backwards compatible with DVD's, but almost every single player has a dual optical pickup that allows pressed CD's and DVD's to be played.
There is actually nothing in the DVD standard to prevent high definition. Just that most players won't display it, and without compression, you won't get a high enough bandwidth off the disk, and the disks don't store enough to store an entire movie on it.
HD-DVD would have had an advantage, that existing manufacturing equipment could have been used to make the disks.
Blu-Ray beat, or out lasted HD-DVD. And some moviephiles have the equipment to really notice the benefits of Blu-ray with the right equipment.
However, most people and even most moviephiles find that well crafted and well compressed DVD's are fantastic to watch, and that the additional costs for new players, and the costs of the medium are simply not worth it. Both formats are deeply rejected by the marketplace, which has led to the failure of one format, and a very small wall at the store.
It is really hard to find material where they took the care to construct a good compression, where they are significantly better than the DVD to make the whole thing worthwhile.
It is not as significantly better as HD-tv is to standard tv.
If you have a PS3, then you get it for free. So that makes it much less difficult to get started.
If you are buying a DVD player that has it, it will be much more difficult to generate a value proposition for it.
johnny_t <nobod...@home.com> wrote: > However, most people and even most moviephiles find that well crafted > and well compressed DVD's are fantastic to watch, and that the > additional costs for new players, and the costs of the medium are simply > not worth it. Both formats are deeply rejected by the marketplace, > which has led to the failure of one format, and a very small wall at the > store.
I agree with that, but a couple of personal experiences lead me to believe we'll be herded to blu-ray.
Twice Netflix shipped me the first dvd in a multi-platter program only to tell me the second (and third) platter were no longer available. These were fairly new releases, and Netflix did offer the programs as one platter blu-rays.
I bought the new Oppo blu-ray player expecting that Oppo would offer a simple hack to make it multi-region, but on the company's discussion board about the player I learned that blu-ray player manufacturing licensees must swear in blood not to make such hacks available for either dvd or blu-ray playback. You can get a non-company hack, but it's replacement firmware, and that puts me off.
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