Microsoft Bashes Blu-Ray

[TurtleBay]

- Because HD-DVD has gone the way of the dodo, pirates will have trouble burning disk images (burners and media are extremely rare)

rather one dimensional.

once Blue-ray becomes very common, the drivers and the discs will cost less so really your point is heavily flawed

- Machines are sitting idle that can make these things, no new tech to invent

what?

Note that I am suggesting HD-DVD, NOT Blu-ray as a distribution medium (the two are completely different formats). The cons of using HD-DVD is that the disks contain less data and no new HD-DVD movie releases will be available because it lost the format wars. The advantages are that while it is getting easier and easier to copy Blu-ray disks because it is a popular format, HD-DVDs remain hard to copy and burner manufacturers have completely stopped making HD-DVD burners. This could prevent a repeat of Microsoft's piracy problem where users flashed the XBox 360 DVD drive firmware to be able to play cheap DVDs that were burned on their computer.

 

[Josdeb]

My internet is terrible. TERRIBLE. No, seriously, it peaks at 20kb/s. KB/S PEOPLE!
There is no way I can go for digitally distributed games or movies at that speed.

Plus I'm a hoarder - I love me physical copies for two reasons:
1) I like physical copies to show off as a library.
2) I have the worst luck with computers and I've had entire harddrives wiped. I don't like having digital storage I can't back up a lot and I simply wouldn't have the space to do so with a 50GB game or HD movie

 

[Radelaide]

keep cost low?! wtf where? arent the 2 systems at the same price? games at the same price?

<.<

give it up man you've lost and stop being a stubborn ***** and get with the program!

Think about the beginning. How was was an xbox compared to a PS3? Because of all the Blu-Ray, PS3 prices were sky high.

 

[DTWolfwood]

keep cost low?! wtf where? arent the 2 systems at the same price? games at the same price?

<.<

give it up man you've lost and stop being a stubborn ***** and get with the program!

Think about the beginning. How was was an xbox compared to a PS3? Because of all the Blu-Ray, PS3 prices were sky high.

i agree but check the date of which this statement was made. it wasn't made 3-4 years ago. So now its just them being stubborn is what im saying

 

[MentalBakura]

This makes me laugh. Nobody I know can even stream the crappy Inside Xbox videos without it pausing to buffer more. Yeah, I think I'll stick with physical media for my movies.