Looks As If Blu Ray Will Win

[Aussie Mike]

Sony are going hard at it this time and don't want to lose like they did in the VHS Betamax war.

Down here in Australia they are giving away a PS3 free with their new HD LCD panels. I bought a 40" unit and hopefully the PS3 will turn up in a couple of weeks. I didn't care either way before but now it looks like I'm in the blue ray camp.

Bravia PS3 Promotion

They seem to be prepared to give away thousands of PS3 units (which happens to be their blue ray player) to secure the format in the hope of future earnings.

Cheers

[Ronbo]

Guess WB will have to take the hit as well, they were the only major studio and only reason HD-DVD even got off the ground. Guess you can get "The Matrix" on Blu-Ray soon.

Unlike the VHS-Beta formats (where the best format lost) there's a big advantage to blu-ray in that it's not as vulnerable to surface scratches.

For those of us that had laserdisk, this was a big down side to DVD. Although I did forget and leave a couple laserdisks in my car on sunny day and they turned into salad bowls. Plus laserdisk was analog and you could run it through a resolution doubler and get 900 lines.

[VRM]

Ron,
! year from the day you started this thread will be the last day for analog tv broadcasts.
I think there are going to be a lot of very surprised people in a year trying to figure out why their TVs don't work.

Maybe it's time to set up a temporary TV repair shop to help get them through their ordeal.

Mike, you need a job??

Steve

[Ron61]

Steve,

That is ironic isn't it. I hadn't even thought about the date. I guess the price of the converters will go out of sight. I don't have to worry about that at least as the satellite company will just change my receiver when they get the digital satellites in orbit. I think that is supposed to be done by 2011 or 2012.

Ron