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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!
It isn't a trojan if there is a cryptic reference to it somewhere in our illegibly tiny 55 page EULA...
I think you mean "whip out"
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The greeks did that to the trojans. The trojans had an unbreakable wall. I think that's the idea.
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).
Wasn't so unbreakable after all, was is?
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I believe it is possible to do exactly this with Matroska, as described here.
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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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I really hope that bluray is the last of this shiny plastic disc phenomenon. I had a somewhat respectable VHS collection, then amassed a healthy DVD collection, jumped on the HD-DVD bandwagon with the HD player add-on for the 360 before that battle was lost, and now I've got about the same number of bluray discs.
We've been told time and again, when you buy an album, or a copy of a movie, you don't *own* that copy, you have merely licensed it. So I'm not allowed to make a backup for personal use of the copy of my license, when the new format comes out, I have to buy a new "license" for the IP I have already licensed.... I am sooo ready to simply "license" movies via a Netflix like subscription service....I'll pay $20/month (less than the cost of 2 premium cable TV channels) if I can "rent" any movie I like on the fly. I've already got a 20 Mb/s internet connection, and with DOCSIS 3.0 coming to my area next year, should be fast enough to stream reasonably compressed HD content. No more need to buy and keep track of fragile little discs...or have to re-purchase when the next format comes out 12 years later.
I'm just over it.
just about the only thing you can't do with a PS3 is use it as a DVR.
This might be true in the US, but in other regions the PlayTV hardware add-on enables you to do exactly that. PlayTV allows you to watch live free-to-air TV and HDTV through the PS3, and record those programs to the PS3's hard drive. I bought the PlayTV add-on (I'm in the UK) as it was cheaper than buying a standalone DVR for free-to-air broadcasts, and have found it to be easier to use and far more reliable than the standalone alternatives available here
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?
That "dead on arrival" format is experiencing growth comparable to DVD in its day. And even if it did die for whatever reason so what? Tools like AnyDVD make it fairly straightforward to rip the content to HDD at which point you have a high quality 1080p movie which will be good for years to come.
I sure as hell don't. Standard def DVDs look like shit on a large (>30 inches) set, especially with all the annoying DVD artifacts. Give me the high-definition movies and tv shows please.
Turn down your fucking Sharpness control. This is one of those crap options that add noise to the picture just make things look better in the sales room. For most TV sets, the correct setting is ZERO, though some sets (notably Sony) support negative sharpness and the zero setting is in the middle of the bar.
Most of the "artifacts" of DVD are actually due to this. I've even seen completely player-generated screens (not based off of MPEG or JPEG) have "artifacts" because of the ringing from Sharpness.
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That was Agamemnon, not his brother Menelaus. Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra got to show him what she thought of that when he got home from the war.
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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