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Blu-Ray First Impressions Not Promising - TechAmok
Blu-Ray First Impressions Not Promising - [briefly] 02:31 PM EDT - Jun,21 2006 - post a comment The chaps over at
Digital Bits
have given their first impressions of the Samsung Blu-Ray player along with
the four Blu-Ray movies and the results are somewhat surprising and may not bode
well for Sony's push for the Blu-Ray disk in their Playstation 3 game console.
Here is a bit:
It's worth noting that we've only seen one player for each format, so it's
hard to say what issues are specifically related to the players, and what are
format related. But right now... I think I may end up giving Round One of this
format war to HD-DVD, and that surprises the hell out of me. Sure, that Tosh
HD-DVD player was a lemon until the firmware upgrade, but it's worked like a
charm since. And the first 25 or so HD-DVD discs I've viewed just look better
overall than the first 4 Blu-ray Discs I've seen. The HD-DVDs also have a LOT
more extra features than the Blu-ray Discs (even if you consider that most of
the extras are recycled from standard DVD). For the record, Terminator on
Blu-ray has 7 deleted scenes and 2 featurettes, recycled from standard DVD.
Fifth Element has a pop-up trivia track, again from the standard DVD. The
Lionsgate titles have nothing. I keep hearing these comments (both official and
unofficial) from Blu-ray execs saying that they're leaving off the extras so
they can give all the extra disc space over to the best video quality possible.
Which tells me that Blu-ray is having major disc space problems. I've heard from
more than a few industry sources that Blu-ray is having trouble getting the
dual-layered BD media to work, which means that discs with lots of extras and
good video quality aren't an option now. It also means that longer movies aren't
an option now either. Both are problems for this format that don't seem to be
troubling HD-DVD at the moment - at least not at first glance, based on the
initial title offering.
What all of this goes to prove, of course, is just what I've been saying all
along: These formats are being rushed to market before they're ready. And it
also proves that the best option for the vast majority of you out there is just
to save your money. Don't even bother with Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD for at least
a year, because there are significant bugs to be worked out yet. Wait until
better hardware and software is available at a better price, and the early
adopter types have dealt with the problems and getting the manufacturers and
studios to fix them. Anyway, I'll have more to say about Blu-ray Disc and the
Samsung player in the next few days, as I spend a little more time with it. But
so far, I'm less than impressed.
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