Members of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) were not declaring victory in the war of the HD disc formats at International CES, but their actions seemed to be speaking louder than their words.
Since Warner Bros.' surprise announcement that it will exclusively back Blu-ray Disc later this year, leaders of some of the BDA's largest manufacturers and studios said they have agreed to shift gears in their joint promotional and marketing efforts from a Blu-ray vs. HD DVD approach to one that will promote the advantages of Blu-ray over standard definition DVDs.
"Hopefully, we can start focusing our energy away from fighting about which format is the better format and now start focusing on consumer education," said Steve Beeks, Lionsgate president/COO. "The choice is clear - consumers need to upgrade from standard def to high def, and perhaps we can start to see packaged media sales start to grow again."
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High demand for the RTX 40 series, especially the RTX 4060 Ti, sees price hikes according to recent reports - even with the 50 series coming.
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The first PlayStation is home to an array of iconic video games that went on to define the sheer significance of this console.
I think from a historical perspective I would change Spyro for Grand Turismo. It's the franchise that made the PS1 look like an absolute unit. Other than that, I can't argue with the rest when it comes to games that defined the PS1.
And to be honest, there should be space for Tekken 3, Wipepout and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater in order to round out the PS1 identity as the machine to own at the time.
With Tomb Raider 2, Silent Hill, Symphony of the Night, Tenchu, and Soul Reaver as backup contenders.
Yeah I've seen the promo's for Blu rays supposed Advancement over SD DVDs...like one is of the knights tale and its the scene where the girl and the dude are in the chapel there like fighting and the sd is all blurry infact so blurry you cannot tell who is who, and what people look like and yet ive seen the SD version of the movie on an 50 inch tv and its not that blurry....Reason why? because the blu ray promo discs purposely blurr the sd version of the movie to make them seem worse the original knights tale movie does not look that blurry on the 50 inch tv i saw infact I got the hh greg guy to take hook up the blu ray player to one of their SD digital tube tvs and it looked the same!!
1 disagree with a fact:) I actually did get the guy at HHGReg hook the blu ray player with the PROMO disc in the drive to an SDTV digital tube tv (30 inch) the knights tale clip looked JUST As blurry on the 30 inch SDTV digital tv then it did on the HDTV 50 inch lol.
If you cant see the difference between DVD (SD) and BR (HD) then you probably cant see the difference between Halo 2 and Halo 3. Right Bill?
Upscaled movies arent too impressive but native blu ray blows anything out the water hands down..esp Ghost rider and spiderman i was watching them in the shop..i was like HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY SHIAT. So crisp n clear.
Native = big difference well worth it.
Upscaled(blu ray) = Not worth $40au.