10.7 Million Blu-ray Players in U.S. Homes

elorm9 - 347 days 17 hours ago

My teachers at school love to brag about owning one even

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ThanatosDMC - 347 days 14 hours ago

Seriously, who pays these stupid "analyeast". They're just spouting random numbers or other predictions and get paid around $67,000+ annually.

I remember back when all these people kept on saying how bluray will fail or anything that went against DVD. They should all be witch hunted.

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hitthegspot - 347 days 14 hours ago

The reason why Blu-Ray is outpacing DVD is PS3, is because there was no console that pushed DVD back in the day. This article is bias, but I can't wait till May. Finally portable Blu-Ray. Wired Magazine reported "why make blu-ray portable?". Well my friends the Blu-ray flood gates will open after May.

<<Edit @ LeonSKennedy4Life>>
Really PS2? WTF is a PS2? Were they priced at $1000, because I'm pretty sure that when DVD hit the market it was +$1000. That's why I bought mine in Singapore for $600 US about 6 months after they entered the market.

Oh and for the record DVD hit the market in 1996.

PS2 = Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was released a year later in Japan.

<<Edit Edit @ LeonSKennedy4Life>>
Bubbles to you sir it takes a real man to admit when they are wrong and you don't see that much on this site with the number of Fanbots that we have. Thanks.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 347 days 14 hours ago

I need another Blu-ray.

Who wants to buy me Ghostbusters on Blu-ray in June?

EDIT: (At below) Upon further review, I decided the guy above me was being sarcastic. That's why he called the article biased. It made sense after a second run-through. Sorry for the confusion. I failed today.

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apena89 - 347 days 14 hours ago

DVD payback was one of the biggest reasons why the PS2 defeated the Dreamcast.

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Kigmal - 347 days 13 hours ago

250 million people living in the Unites States?

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apena89 - 347 days 13 hours ago

my source for my above comment?
A Dreamcast episode of "Icon" from G4TV, before it went down the $hi7er.

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Sibs - 347 days 13 hours ago

I've learned to never trust analysts... or therapists... or analrapists...

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ThanatosDMC - 347 days 5 hours ago

They made a lot of noise when the US apparently reached 300,000,000 (300M)people. They even made fun of it in SNL.

Anyway, here's a link for those that dont know: http://www.census.gov/main/...

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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 347 days 4 hours ago

lol, im guilty of showing off my setup to friends. Now THOSE friends have their OWN setups and buy their OWN movies.

Bluray was dissed and labeled a "failure" since day one. What i dont get is, everyone that I have showed it to end up being amazed by both video and audio. Most importantly, and often overlooked by everyone who writes and posts these "ps3, bluray are dead articles", hddvd did not survive and bluray titles are selling wel in the millions.

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gaffyh - 347 days 1 hour ago

WTF is wrong with all these people, buying a player for a dead format. I'd rather wait for my movie to download in 5 hours, and still not own it.

/sarcasm.

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MegaMohsi - 347 days 1 hour ago

No chance in hell it's even close, DD movies only go up to native 720p resolution and upscale to 1080p, nothing rivals the sound and picture quality of blu ray. NATIVE>UPSCALE

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Nathan Drake - 347 days 17 hours ago

That would be HD DVD and Digital Downloads.

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eagle21 - 347 days 17 hours ago

Pure idiots. I bet most of the idiots who oppose Blu don't even buy movies, just pirate them.

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iHEARTboobs - 347 days 17 hours ago

and upscaled DVD's look just as good. haha

/sarcasm (Do i even have to include that)

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skyfire2261 - 347 days 15 hours ago

HD-DVD - Yes

Digital Downloads are just getting started.

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Kigmal - 347 days 13 hours ago

If you say Digital Downloads are dead, you are an idiot.

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POGfinder - 347 days 13 hours ago

It makes up 0.3% of toatl movie sales

It is dead even before birth . and also people dont like DD

It will never take off like HD DVD

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Kigmal - 347 days 12 hours ago

DD aren't only movies. I'm talking about DD as a whole. PSN, XBLA ring a bell? How do you get your demos these days? Exactly, Mr. Drake should of been more elaborate on his comment.

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POGfinder - 347 days 8 hours ago

In Japan u can download a 32 gig movie in an hour. yea the connection is that fast

However no one wants to save movies on Lame HDD

DD is dead

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Jenzo - 347 days 7 hours ago

Since I've never heard of people who download MP3's and Xvid movies from the Internet. They don't exist. It's all hearsay...

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Rhoic - 347 days 6 hours ago

Hey morons.. Digital Downloading has been going on since before Blu-Ray was ever thought up. DD will always be around. It's quicker, easier, and can be backed up as many times as you want. Not to mention it will probably ALWAYS look better than any physical sort of media due to the fact that they can constantly upscale the resolution. All they have to do is wait for TVs and Monitors to catch up.

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moocho - 347 days 13 hours ago

4/5 Blu ray movies are Region Free :

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

(^_^)

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cayal - 347 days 9 hours ago

I bought a couple of Blu-Ray movies from Amazon (I'm in Australia). Some of them don't work on the Blu-ray player (not the PS3, different one).

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PirateThom - 347 days 16 hours ago

Well, DVD sales surpassed VHS in 2003.

That was 6 years after DVD was introduced, but I believe it was only 2006 when studios stopped even offering VHS (the last major movie was A History of Violence).

And the last truckload of VHS left the warehouse in December 2008.

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cayal - 347 days 16 hours ago

The last VHS dealer closed shop late last year (I think they were based in LA).

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Lonely Hunter - 347 days 16 hours ago

so i think we will see movies on dvd for another 6-7 years

but it will depend on how much HD TV will do in those years

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cayal - 347 days 16 hours ago

People in the market for a new DVD player need to know Blu-ray players will play their DVDs, thus they do not have to replace their current collection.

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Willio - 347 days 9 hours ago

Ps3s are blu-ray players too, idiot.

"Yep, the people who bought into the frenzy will take the statistics that suit them, and not what they really point too."

Talk about hyprocrisy. You treat Ps3s as if they are not blu-ray players.

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LoydX-mas - 347 days 12 hours ago

1.The audio on Transformers HD-DVD is DD-plus 5.1. It is encoded at 1.5mbs and received 5 stars.

link: http://hddvd.highdefdigest....

**note:"High-res audio had not yet become standard in next-gen releases."

2.The Blu-ray version (just like the HD-DVD) had no extras on the main disc. They both received multiple disc treatment.

3.Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD are 1080p and both formats released with an overwhelming majority of high-def sound as well.

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aiphanes - 347 days 11 hours ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Technical specifications
Type Physical size Single layer capacity Dual layer capacity
Standard disc size 12 cm, single sided 25 GB (23.28 GiB) 50 GB (46.56 GiB)
Mini disc size 8 cm, single sided 7.8 GB (7.26 GiB) 15.6 GB (14.53 GiB)

High-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray ROM discs with up to 1920x1080 pixel resolution at up to 60 frames per second interlaced or 24 frames per second progressive:[43]

Resolution Frame rate Aspect ratio Codec
1920x1080 59.94-i, 50-i 16:9
1920x1080 24-p, 23.976-p 16:9
1440x1080 59.94-i, 50-i 16:9 MPEG-4 AVC / SMPTE VC-1 only
1440x1080 24-p, 23.976-p 16:9 MPEG-4 AVC / SMPTE VC-1 only
1280x720 59.94-p, 50-p 16:9
1280x720 24-p, 23.976-p 16:9
720x480 59.94-i 4:3/16:9
720x576 50-i 4:3/16:9

[edit] Laser and optics
Blu-ray Disc uses a "blue" (technically violet) laser operating at a wavelength of 405 nm to read and write data. Conventional DVDs and CDs use red and near infrared lasers at 650 nm and 780 nm respectively.

The blue-violet laser's shorter wavelength makes it possible to store more information on a 12 cm CD/DVD sized disc. The minimum "spot size" on which a laser can be focused is limited by diffraction, and depends on the wavelength of the light and the numerical aperture of the lens used to focus it. By decreasing the wavelength, increasing the numerical aperture from 0.60 to 0.85 and making the cover layer thinner to avoid unwanted optical effects, the laser beam can be focused to a smaller spot. This allows more information to be stored in the same area. For Blu-ray Disc, the spot size is 580 nm. In addition to the optical improvements, Blu-ray Discs feature improvements in data encoding that further increase the capacity. (See Compact Disc for information on optical discs' physical structure.)

[edit] Hard-coating technology
Because the Blu-ray Disc data layer is closer to the surface of the disc, compared to the DVD standard, it was at first more vulnerable to scratches. The first discs were housed in cartridges for protection.

TDK was the first company to develop a working scratch protection coating for Blu-ray Discs. It was named Durabis. In addition, both Sony and Panasonic's replication methods include proprietary hard-coat technologies. Sony's rewritable media are spin-coated with a scratch-resistant and antistatic coating. Verbatim's recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc discs use their own proprietary hard-coat technology called ScratchGuard.

[edit] Recording speed
Drive speed Data rate Write time for Blu-ray Disc (minutes)
Mbit/s MB/s Single Layer Dual Layer
1× 36 4.5 90 180
2× 72 9 45 90
4× 144 18 23 45
6× 216 27 15 30
8×* 288 36 12 23
12×** 432 54 8 15

* On August 8, 2008, Japanese electronics company Buffalo announced that it will ship the first 8x Blu-ray burners in Japan starting from September 2008.[44] On September 22, 2008, Buffalo announced one internal and one external 8x Blu-ray burners for the United States, to be released the same month.[45] The following day Sony announced the BWU-300S, an internal 8x Blu-ray burner for the United States.[46]

** Theoretical

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dustgavin - 347 days 12 hours ago

Perhaps you should get your eyes checked. Streaming is not better looking than Blu-Ray.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 347 days 14 hours ago

That was his title. That's how it's bold.

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Steven Colbert - 347 days 14 hours ago

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