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BluRay vs HD-DVD
#1
I was wondering how this debate was going to go. But before I even got into the fray, the battle was already over. I hope none of you bought Blu-Ray players.

Aaron McKenna
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CES 2007: HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD


January 11, 2007 12:39



Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.

Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won especially because the adult industry preferred it. If you've been around long enough, you probably remember that the very early home video rental stores were primarily responsible for driving Betamax out of the market. And those stores carried almost exclusively pornographic content.
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#2
I better give plenty of warning on this one. There's a bad pun coming, and it's a doozer. It may cripple your brain for the foreseeable future.

I've been in apology land of late. First there was the whole issue of Steve McQueen. Again, Steve, I apologize for killing you for no good reason.
Now this. I need to apologize to Blu-Ray. I didn't intentionally put you out of business. It just sort of happened.

As an interesting aside regarding the porn industry, I'm certain you're aware of all the look-a-likes and look-a-names running rampant (and buck naked) through the industry. You know, names very close to Brittney Spears and Christie Aguilera and Madeline Albright. Well, there's a Bruce Lee lookalike in the industry. I forget the exact name he goes by. Bruce Pee or Juice Me or Loose Lee or whatever. Anyway, it's the looks that got him in, because when it comes to matter of endowment, he's just not. In fact, he's remarkably small.

But leave it to the porn industry to use it to their advantage. They advertise him as Master of the One Inch Lunch.

I'm going to go hide now.
--cranefly
I'm nobody's pony.
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#3
No wonder Lady Cranefly has abandoned us already.
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#4
who watches porn on tv anymore anyway? isn't that what the net is for? oh, wait, my download is done - chat later...

Quote:Blu-ray outshines competitor
Alan Stewart
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April 16, 2008 | 07:33 AM

Both sides say the war between high-definition, next-generation video offerings Blu-ray and HD DVD isn't over, but an announcement earlier this year that HD DVD creator Toshiba would no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players or recorders speaks to the contrary.

Blu-ray and HD DVD discs deliver crisp, clear high-definition pictures and sound, which are more detailed and vivid than existing video technology. While both formats play on high-definition TVs, they are incompatible with each other and neither plays on older DVD players.

The two formats use the same kind of 405nm wavelength blue-violet laser, but their optics differ in two ways.

The Blu-ray disc has a tighter track "pitch" (the single thread of data that spirals from the inside of the disc all the way out) so it can hold more information on the same size disc as HD DVD.

HD DVD discs have a different surface layer (the clear plastic layer on the surface of the data and the part that collects fingerprints and scratches) from Blu-ray discs. HD DVDs use a 0.6 mm-thick surface layer, the same as DVD, while Blu-ray has a much smaller 0.1mm layer. The extra thickness tends to make HD DVD discs more durable.

Blu-ray discs tend to cost more because they do not share the same surface layer thickness of DVDs and production facilities must either be modified or replaced in order to produce the discs. Also, a special coating called Durabis must also be applied to Blu-ray discs to ensure they can protect the data that's stored on them.

But the thinner surface protection Blu-ray offers allows for more layers — and potentially more data — than what HD DVD can offer.

Toshiba's move makes Blu-ray — backed by Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic brand products, and five major Hollywood movie studios — the winner in the battle over high-definition DVD formatting that began several years ago.

Only one video format has been expected to emerge as the victor, much like VHS trumped Sony's Betamax in the video format battle of the early- to mid-1980s.

Now, as in the '80s, if a consumer picked the wrong format, they were/are stuck with a fairly useless piece of equipment.

Sales in Blu-ray gadgets have steadily picked up as consumers held off in investing in the latest recorders and players because they didn't know which format would emerge dominant.

With movie studios increasingly lining up behind Blu-ray, retailers are beginning to stock more Blu-ray products.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest U.S. retailer, announced in February that it would sell only Blu-ray DVDs and hardware. Also, about a week prior to Wal-Mart's announcement, Netflix Inc. said it would cease carrying rentals in HD DVD.

Several major American retailers had already made similar decisions, including Target Corp. and Blockbuster Inc.

Also adding to Blu-ray's momentum was the gradual increase in sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 home video-game console, which also works as a Blu-ray player.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 game machine can play HD DVD movies, but the drive had to be bought separately at a cost between $75 and $50.

So what can consumers who already purchased a HD DVD player do to soften the sting of owning a dying slice of technology?

Best Buy is giving $50 to customers who purchased players from its stores, and Wal-Mart said last week it is extending its return policy from 90 days to six months on HD DVD players. Now, Amazon.com is giving its customers who purchased the soon-to-be-extinct devices $50 off any products sold by Amazon.
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