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ChadTower:


--- Quote from: shmokes on February 01, 2007, 02:57:11 pm ---I don't know.  Maybe the costs of tooling up for a run of discs is minimal and irrelevant. 

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I think that's the case.  DVDs are so freakin profitable that most major releases make back very quickly.  That is the only way it could be profitable for them to press everything under the sun onto DVD.  I mean why the hell else would they produce stuff like this?

shmokes:

How does Rob Schneider continue to be put in films?  He's so awful.  What's with the Saturday Night Live cast who always put him in their films, when they know that he's awful?  We're talking about people who know funny, and Rob Schneider is not.  Do they just feel bad for him because they worked together and then all went out and started making good movies and the best he can do is Deuce Bigalowe?

ChadTower:


Hey, Deuce Bigalow is one of my all time favorite movies.  The second one was a crappy script but the first one is pure gold.  I think it's more a case of dude doing any script that gets thrown at him.  He's usually good but often the script and the cast around him suck diddly ucks.  I saw The Benchwarmers the other day... terrible concept and the only people entertaining were Schneider and David Spade.

AlanS17:

I wonder if the rising prices of optical media are going to increase rental fees - both traditional (Blockbuster) and monthly (Netflix). I guess that remains to be seen. At this point in time, it becomes even more interesting to have a rental subscription over actually purchasing movies. That goes for either hi-def format.

Back on topic, though. Blu-Ray appears to be doing quite well. I haven't seen even a hint of any of the problems that people have been claiming with the format. I hope Blu-Ray wins so I'l have an excuse to buy a PS3.

The PS3 is actually a great Blu-Ray player, and it's priced down around where the HD-DVD players are priced... and now even some of the fancier HD-DVD players are up in the $1000 range. It's like they're switching places.

AlanS17:

I've noticed another thing that might be a detriment to HD-DVD as a format. Everywhere I look, I see these "HD DVD" players, but what they really mean is they're just upconverting standard DVD players that ouput in 720p or 1080i. That right there can cause a lot of confusion. It's just a plain old-fashioned DVD disc. Even retailers seem to get the two confused sometimes.

When people say "Blu-Ray" you know exactly what they mean. You don't have to ask yourself, "Ok now which one is this?"

People said Blu-Ray would have trouble with name recognition, but it sure beats the HD-DVD name confusion. Learning a new name isn't hard, anyways. People had to learn DVD back in the day when they were used to VHS, but it seemed to take off just fine. Now it's the standard.

I've heard stories of Microsoft not signing drivers for Blu-Ray optical drives, but that's going to make more enemies than friends if Blu-Ray does succeed. Eventually they'll just have to conceed. In the meantime, Blu-Ray has Apple support (as minor as that may seem).

Besides, MS has been getting chewed out lately for all their new DRM - not something you want associated with your brand spanking new optical format. Of Blu-Ray has similar copy protection, but it doesn't make the headlines like MS does.

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