actualy, its a lot more pass due than that. This was originaly billed as an early wii game, if not launch. It sliped to early 2007, then fall, then winter, and now spring again. If this was a ps3 or xbox title, people would be tearing into it.
The thing is, with not a super majority of studios on the other format, it's become something of the de-facto winner. Two studios cannot prop up an entire format. Universal and Paramount know this.
The only shows i'm planning on rebuying are those I watch on a regular basis. So something like LOTR or The Fifth Element which get a rewatch every few weeks are good choices. everything else is staying on it's current format for the time being. For new titles, it depends on the show, and on how much I foresee myself rewatching it.
Makes sense I guess. The HD-DVD folks had caught flak for having to drop features on some titles, like lossless audio, to make the film fit on the disks. What's the sales on HD-combo disks been like, anyways?
the guts of the playstation were 100% sony. Nintendo may have orginally asked for the product, but when they droped the project sony rebuilt it as a stand alone system. Saying nintendo had any input on the final device is pretty illogical.
It's strange that you say they have no intent on producing combo disks, when their own site had annouced the invention of suck blu-ray combo disks way back in december of 2004. http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=35 It's just it never seemed to make it to market.
Sony Computer Entertainment is strangely enough nothing like the rest of the company. The playstation line has always been pretty open. The net yazoo, the ps1 you could make games on, started this, but it really hit high gear with the ps2, which made heavy use of usb for accessories, and had a linux option. With the ps3, they just went all out, openeing up quite a bit to standards. The AV-multiout is pretty much the only non-standard connection on the thing. I don't even really consider them as part of the same group of people anymore, as they seem to be off doing their own thing regaurdless of the views of the rest of the company.
Actualy, the average gamer these days is an adult, and that includes the ps3's core audience. The whole 'pimply faced teen' is really a sterotype without a solid basis in reality. Unless of course you have access to some data the rest of us don't.
I don't understand, the players play both dvd's and their own high def disks. Now if your wondering why someone would buy a bd when they can't play it on a dvd player i'd say it's for the same reason they bought dvd's that couldn't play on their vhs.
wasn't there a blu-ray combo disk also annouced? It just never seemed to make it to stores, proabably because of the costs associated. If blu-ray wins as a format, then prices will come down and we may start to see the bd-combo disks come out.
At my college, we used to have old P3 Dell 8100's that still worked perfectly, provided they were defraged every few months. Ended up replaceing a lot of them, due to running low on Hard drive space and the fact they ran XP pretty slowly at time. They still worked thoughm things were built like a brick.
Actualy, I've noticed the opposite: its the close shots where the detail shines in HD. Watching the shining, I could literaly count the threads in Jack Nickolson's suit, see the close, subtley different bars of color that made up his tie's design, count the wiskers on his face and the pores on hs skin. Most of that was blured on the DVD and VHS versions. Watching the 5th element's remastered blu-ray, you could really see some detail that sliped though on even the suberbit DVD version. alot of the costumes in that show have intricate details, which really show in HD. Sometimes you notice stuff that i'm not sure was intented, like the flecks of glittery in the Diva's bodypaint. Is was viable on DVD, but really stands out in HD.
Agree with you completely on the Planet Earth stuff. That show is magnificent videowise. I thought a Scanner Darkly looked well in HD, as it was a digital to digital film, and the colors look alot saper in HD than in SD. The best films in HD seem to be the ones who put a lot of details into minor things, like clothing, props, makeup, etc.
Your talking about something very small, hurling though space at ungodly speeds, being effected by tons of ifferent forces, trying to hit something itself going very fast. Toss in all the things we can't see, as well as unpredicable forces (like solar wind, rogue astriods/comets, etc) and the timescale, and its still a shot in the dark. As It gets closer, however, the numbers will change, and they will be able to make a better estimate.
The original masters don't ususaly have those, but yeah, it's a common problem with 35mm filmstock. I used to work in a cinemplex and it was damn hard to prevent those kinds things.
I think Directors are going to be impressed by the abiility to get near master-perfect home copies of their films. Double that for those out their who demand unyeilding attention to detail in a film, like Kubrick did.
Whats to stop the blu-ray camp from releasing tripple or quad layer disks? Nothing. Heck, didn't they annouce early on they had a 100gb disk in test? The HD-DVD advantage is brief, and at the moment, irrelevant, as those disks aren't on the market and won't be for some time. In the meantime, BD still has the sales, studio, and capacity advantages.
The only reason HDDVD is even in the fight still is Ms's buying off of studios, which they can't support forever.
I got to watch parts of The Shining on Blue ray the other day. WOW. For the first time since release in cinemas, you actualy get to see what kubrick intended. Widescreen, bright colors, rich textures on cloths and kins, just overall amazing. I think this is where HD really shines: You get to see the film as originaly intended. No fading, no washout, just crystal clear picture and sound.
Actualy, his experience is pretty typical. I bought a wii and launch, and owned it till just after e3. It's got little to nothing really worth playing thats not a gimick, or better on one of the other platforms. Galaxy and Metriod are amazing, but thats about it. It was a doorstop for so long, that I just decided to cut my loses and traded it in for money twords my ps3. The ps3 has proven it's worth, as it's library just has more to play than the wii, and metacritic backs that up, with 12 wii titles above 80% comapired to the ps3's 38.
Games like call of duty 4 proved you can get the ps3 and 360 to match visual for visual, and the first party sony games look fantastic, or at least Rachet and Uncharted did. I'd wadger that 9/10th of the early multiplatform release woes can be attributed to ether EA, who sucks at porting, or to the well publicised issues with the UT3 engine on the ps3. Ut3 on the ps3 plays great though, so I think epic must have finally figured out their problems.
The ps3 and 360 can really pull off some amazing visuals, its just going to take a year or two before we really see what they can do. Both consoles recent exclusives look fantastic, so i'm hopeful for the future.
I don't see why Sony would killer user content, as they officially support linux on the console, not to mention one of their upcoming games, littlebigplanet, is majorly based on user created content. Not to mention how pro-web2.0 Sony seems to be.
Reminds me of seeing the engineers at NIWeek using nunchucks and wiimotes as cheep accelerametors for some of the demonstrations. Analog Technologies, who makes the wiimot's accelerameter, was onhand at the convention, and had a blast seeing what all people were doing with it. Interestingly, when I brought up the sixaxis, they were somewhat interested in how it functioned. Almost makes me wish I had one on hand we could have picked apart.
Reminds me of an article way back in the day I read from a gamer mag's rumor section. When the first talk of the xbox started, the mag dismissed the rumors of MS making a game console on the idea that the DC already used windows, and that the rumors were probabaly related to a future DC 2 or other Sega/MS colaberation.
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actualy, its a lot more pass due than that. This was originaly billed as an early wii game, if not launch. It sliped to early 2007, then fall, then winter, and now spring again. If this was a ps3 or xbox title, people would be tearing into it.
What has Sony rejected on blu-ray? Seems like your outraged over nothing.
The thing is, with not a super majority of studios on the other format, it's become something of the de-facto winner. Two studios cannot prop up an entire format. Universal and Paramount know this.
The only shows i'm planning on rebuying are those I watch on a regular basis. So something like LOTR or The Fifth Element which get a rewatch every few weeks are good choices. everything else is staying on it's current format for the time being. For new titles, it depends on the show, and on how much I foresee myself rewatching it.
Makes sense I guess. The HD-DVD folks had caught flak for having to drop features on some titles, like lossless audio, to make the film fit on the disks. What's the sales on HD-combo disks been like, anyways?
the guts of the playstation were 100% sony. Nintendo may have orginally asked for the product, but when they droped the project sony rebuilt it as a stand alone system. Saying nintendo had any input on the final device is pretty illogical.
It's strange that you say they have no intent on producing combo disks, when their own site had annouced the invention of suck blu-ray combo disks way back in december of 2004. http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=35 It's just it never seemed to make it to market.
Sony Computer Entertainment is strangely enough nothing like the rest of the company. The playstation line has always been pretty open. The net yazoo, the ps1 you could make games on, started this, but it really hit high gear with the ps2, which made heavy use of usb for accessories, and had a linux option. With the ps3, they just went all out, openeing up quite a bit to standards. The AV-multiout is pretty much the only non-standard connection on the thing. I don't even really consider them as part of the same group of people anymore, as they seem to be off doing their own thing regaurdless of the views of the rest of the company.
Actualy, the average gamer these days is an adult, and that includes the ps3's core audience. The whole 'pimply faced teen' is really a sterotype without a solid basis in reality. Unless of course you have access to some data the rest of us don't.
I don't understand, the players play both dvd's and their own high def disks. Now if your wondering why someone would buy a bd when they can't play it on a dvd player i'd say it's for the same reason they bought dvd's that couldn't play on their vhs.
wasn't there a blu-ray combo disk also annouced? It just never seemed to make it to stores, proabably because of the costs associated. If blu-ray wins as a format, then prices will come down and we may start to see the bd-combo disks come out.
I can't see why they would do that to videogames. SCE has always been the more reasonable of the sony corp holdings.
At my college, we used to have old P3 Dell 8100's that still worked perfectly, provided they were defraged every few months. Ended up replaceing a lot of them, due to running low on Hard drive space and the fact they ran XP pretty slowly at time. They still worked thoughm things were built like a brick.
Actualy, I've noticed the opposite: its the close shots where the detail shines in HD. Watching the shining, I could literaly count the threads in Jack Nickolson's suit, see the close, subtley different bars of color that made up his tie's design, count the wiskers on his face and the pores on hs skin. Most of that was blured on the DVD and VHS versions. Watching the 5th element's remastered blu-ray, you could really see some detail that sliped though on even the suberbit DVD version. alot of the costumes in that show have intricate details, which really show in HD. Sometimes you notice stuff that i'm not sure was intented, like the flecks of glittery in the Diva's bodypaint. Is was viable on DVD, but really stands out in HD.
Agree with you completely on the Planet Earth stuff. That show is magnificent videowise. I thought a Scanner Darkly looked well in HD, as it was a digital to digital film, and the colors look alot saper in HD than in SD. The best films in HD seem to be the ones who put a lot of details into minor things, like clothing, props, makeup, etc.
Your talking about something very small, hurling though space at ungodly speeds, being effected by tons of ifferent forces, trying to hit something itself going very fast. Toss in all the things we can't see, as well as unpredicable forces (like solar wind, rogue astriods/comets, etc) and the timescale, and its still a shot in the dark. As It gets closer, however, the numbers will change, and they will be able to make a better estimate.
The original masters don't ususaly have those, but yeah, it's a common problem with 35mm filmstock. I used to work in a cinemplex and it was damn hard to prevent those kinds things.
I think Directors are going to be impressed by the abiility to get near master-perfect home copies of their films. Double that for those out their who demand unyeilding attention to detail in a film, like Kubrick did.
Whats to stop the blu-ray camp from releasing tripple or quad layer disks? Nothing. Heck, didn't they annouce early on they had a 100gb disk in test? The HD-DVD advantage is brief, and at the moment, irrelevant, as those disks aren't on the market and won't be for some time. In the meantime, BD still has the sales, studio, and capacity advantages.
The only reason HDDVD is even in the fight still is Ms's buying off of studios, which they can't support forever.
I got to watch parts of The Shining on Blue ray the other day. WOW. For the first time since release in cinemas, you actualy get to see what kubrick intended. Widescreen, bright colors, rich textures on cloths and kins, just overall amazing. I think this is where HD really shines: You get to see the film as originaly intended. No fading, no washout, just crystal clear picture and sound.
Actualy, his experience is pretty typical. I bought a wii and launch, and owned it till just after e3. It's got little to nothing really worth playing thats not a gimick, or better on one of the other platforms. Galaxy and Metriod are amazing, but thats about it. It was a doorstop for so long, that I just decided to cut my loses and traded it in for money twords my ps3. The ps3 has proven it's worth, as it's library just has more to play than the wii, and metacritic backs that up, with 12 wii titles above 80% comapired to the ps3's 38.
Games like call of duty 4 proved you can get the ps3 and 360 to match visual for visual, and the first party sony games look fantastic, or at least Rachet and Uncharted did. I'd wadger that 9/10th of the early multiplatform release woes can be attributed to ether EA, who sucks at porting, or to the well publicised issues with the UT3 engine on the ps3. Ut3 on the ps3 plays great though, so I think epic must have finally figured out their problems.
The ps3 and 360 can really pull off some amazing visuals, its just going to take a year or two before we really see what they can do. Both consoles recent exclusives look fantastic, so i'm hopeful for the future.
I don't see why Sony would killer user content, as they officially support linux on the console, not to mention one of their upcoming games, littlebigplanet, is majorly based on user created content. Not to mention how pro-web2.0 Sony seems to be.
So in other words, the next Wii would act like an Sony Eyetoy?
You do realize many people have no choice on where they get their power, or how it's generated, right?
Reminds me of seeing the engineers at NIWeek using nunchucks and wiimotes as cheep accelerametors for some of the demonstrations. Analog Technologies, who makes the wiimot's accelerameter, was onhand at the convention, and had a blast seeing what all people were doing with it. Interestingly, when I brought up the sixaxis, they were somewhat interested in how it functioned. Almost makes me wish I had one on hand we could have picked apart.
Reminds me of an article way back in the day I read from a gamer mag's rumor section. When the first talk of the xbox started, the mag dismissed the rumors of MS making a game console on the idea that the DC already used windows, and that the rumors were probabaly related to a future DC 2 or other Sega/MS colaberation.