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Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos
Audiofan writes "Enthusiasts have long suggested the PlayStation 3 to their family and friends as one of the better and most affordable Blu-ray players. Lately, prices of Blu-ray players have been coming down, but the PS3 is still one of the better options out there. Sony is taking advantage of this by starting to offer game demos on their Blu-ray offerings. While these demos will only be playable on the PS3, they hope the extra value will help drive sales."
Oh you crazy consumers...
You'll get a feature limited demo of our crappy sweatshop game, with ads on all the loading screens(also present in $60 full version and $80 non-resellable-DLC-fuck-you-gamestop edition), on the same disk as the average movie tie in.
And by god, you'll like it(or we'll blame piracy).
You forgot the trojan that gets installed if your player happens to be a computer.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
I'm amazed you can exhibit such foresight from under that bridge!
I often scoff at marketing ploys, but game demos are a good thing. As long as this doesn't increase the price of the discs, this is more value for your dollar- it isn't as if you have to play the demo to watch your movie.
Now, just watch them bundle some highly anticipated game demo exclusively with some crap film- SURPRISE HOME MOVIE SALES HIT OF THE SUMMER!
This is awesome. Most game demos have to give you enough to wet your appetite for more. Most of the time you can realize the game would suck, but the demo usually has a few redeeming qualities making the 30 minutes that you play the demo rewarding and entertaining.
So: I'm all for it.
Hardly. Case in point: I refuse to by a huge TV because, frankly, I don't have the room, and I consider it nothing more than conspicuous consumption. So I've settled on a 32" TV... which is, TBH, still huge, but I happen to watch it from a couch that's a good 12-14 feet away (it's on an angle, so the viewing distance varies a bit). And from that distance, at that screen size, SD and HD are indistinguishable simply due to physical limitations in the human eye related to angular resolution.
So unless I plan to buy a huge TV, or move my couch half-way across the room, HD is pointless. And I can't imagine I'm the only one in that boat. Furthermore, for those where the difference in resolution would be visually distinguishable, many simply don't consider the upgrade worth the bother, as SD is good enough (particularly given the quality of a decent DVD upscaler).
But who's really going to pay the price of a Blu-ray disc to play the game demo, even if they REALLY want to? I mean sure, if its on the same disc as a film you'd buy anyway... but to buy Terrible Parody Movie 9 to play the demo of the ohmygodsweetjesusawesome Halo (or any other highly popular game) game coming out the next spring... no.
Ah am not a crook! (\(-__-)/)
In recent years I have rented two DVDs where the previews were unskippable. Thats annoying. And in the future:
This disk has been licensed for three viewers. To proceed beyond the anti pirating presentation your player must detect three viewers facing the screen with eyes open for the entire 20 minutes.
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Oh I get it, your so sick of moving from format to format, media to media, license to license that your ready to jump ship from Blu-ray to a subscription download service. Good on ya.
You'd be better off just keeping the old 'players' around and not jumping on every new bandwagon that rolls into town. You can still buy decent combined DVD/VHS players so its won't likely take up too much space on that front. I'm sure you've still got your 360 around and likely a PS3. So I don't see why you have to replace anything.
So when I pirate my movies, with no unskippable anything, I get a superior product? Did any of these people take a basic economics course?
>>>jumped on the HD-DVD bandwagon
That's your own dumb fault. If you had been smart (like me ;-) ), you would have patiently waited for the BD and HDDVD war to be over. I learned that early on, when I bought Betamax instead of VHS. Better to wait to see who has won.
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Oh, I can tell the difference, I just don't care. A lot of what I watch (on a projector, so on about a two metre display) is from iPlayer or streamed from the company I rent DVDs from. This is lower than DVD quality, but it's good enough. If I'm noticing the artefacts then it's probably because the show is too boring to be immersive. Given the choice between this and 1080p then, all other things being equal, I'd take the 1080p version. All other things are not equal though and so I'll take the greater convenience and the lower quality over the higher quality and lower convenience.
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