Comments on: CBS Planning More Trek On HD DVD – Blu Ray Gains Ground

By: sean's clone

sean's clone — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:41:02 +0000

Purchases of HiDef players lags way behind purchases of HD TVs. As a format. I think Blu_ray has won – but it will not be as prevelent as standard DVDs are / were. There is just too much HD competition on the horizon with HD DVRs, HD download services etc.

Of course, consumers will always go for price and convenience, so if they can get the Blu-Ray players down to around 100.00 – then expect them to really sell well.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:03:09 +0000

HD-DVD suc*s! And this is fact. HD-DVD only use 23,995 frames/s Blu-Ray use 24 frames/s and 24 frames/s are real cinematic like. Real 24 fps is only by Blu-Ray possible. When you are so smart to buy HD-DVD without knowing the fact that Blu-Ray have got more Capacity for Memory about 50 GB on Double Layer (HD-DVD only 30 GB on Double Layer). it’s your own fault to support the worser format HD-DVD. And don’t think of bashing Sony and Co. Blu-Ray is not a format only supported by Sony. It is also developed by Corporations like Phillips etc. And HD-DVD is under control of Toshiba (da*n i hate this corporation) and suppurted by Microsoft etc. Sony and Phillips were the Developers of the CD don’t forget this!

By: Jeyl

Jeyl — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:40:33 +0000

102. Kirokwannabe

And maybe they’ll be nice enough to include the remastered episodes without the tinkering or the FX reworking. The previous HD-DVD release of season one somehow gave off the impression that Paramount and those who worked on the project lied about their work “not replacing” what has already been made.

By: Kirokwannabe

Kirokwannabe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:05:04 +0000

#101 – THIS APPEARS MORE AND MORE LIKELY. See the story today at thedigitalbits.com

Woo-hoo – I took the plunge and bought a Blu-Ray player two weeks ago. Hopefully this means seeing TOS on Blu-Ray sooner rather than later!

By: ArgusX

ArgusX — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:53:59 +0000

#82

“Trek on BluRay will have to wait until 2009. Paramount is committed to releasing only on HD DVD thru 2008. That was in the terms of their deal with Toshiba when the became format exclusive (unless Paramount has an “out-clause” in the event of Warner going bluray exclusive).”

Look here:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc409afa-bd75-11dc-b7e6-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html?nclick_check=1

“However, Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, is understood to have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp that would allow it to switch sides in the event of Warner Bros backing Blu-ray, according to people familiar with the situation.”

Evidently, they do have an “out-clause”. If Paramount switches, you can kiss HD-DVD good-bye.

By: Jeyl

Jeyl — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:52:55 +0000

Oh, yeah. Star Trek on BluRay!

By: Jeyl

Jeyl — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:52:31 +0000

98.

I myself think that there is a lot that’s going to happen to the Bluray format. It’s still a relatively new format in the scheme of things, so who knows what the quality will improve with time. It did for DVD, it’s likely to happen for BluRay.

By: Sean O'Shaughnessy

Sean O'Shaughnessy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:48:58 +0000

More and more it becomes clear that Blu-Ray will be the dominate format. Sony finally wins a consumer format war! There was no way Sony would lose this one – it only took them 30 years, but they finally have recovered from their Betamax debacle (a superior format to VHS – just like BR is superior to HD). What’s even more ironic, Toshiba was a big supporter of Betamax back in the day and now they appear to be holding the short end of the hidef DVD format stick – oh well.

But has Sony really won? With Hi Def DVD adoption running well below anticipated numbers (250K HD players sold in 2007 versus 750K expected) and more and more HD movie download services rolling out soon – will Blu Ray have a very long shelf life?

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:42:53 +0000

Check out this Financial Times article: “Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD-DVD”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea637496-bd8d-11dc-b7e6-0000779fd2ac.html

Paramount could go dual format real soon!

By: Orelha Pontudas

Orelha Pontudas — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:58:37 +0000

Here in Brazil we don´t even find HD DVD players for sale. It´s all Blu-Ray!!!!!! Blu-Ray discs are being produced in Brazil, but HD DVD discs are not. Only imports from the USA. I´m not going to risk losing money. I hope Trek will go Blu-Ray soon, too!!!!