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Dr. Z
03-04-2007, 10:14
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/04/03/blu-ray_standard_already_being_altered/



Blu-ray discs will get the Sun-designed language as a programming medium, allowing complex menus and setups for picture-in-picture commentary and special features. In order to allow for this, the Blu-ray Disc association has mandated that players must comply with new hardware and firmware rules that can decode the language, something that current players just can't do.



This looks like it could be a bit of a problem for those that have already bought into the technology :/
Desmo
03-04-2007, 10:43
Whoops indeed. There's going to be a lot of early adopters with steam coming out of their ears I reckon. Might have knocked some wind out of the PS3's sales too ;D
Zirax
03-04-2007, 10:44
Genius absolute genius. So everything that has been made so far has to be scrapped? Surely they will now have to make the new players compatable with the old standard discs. If I had spent £750 ish on a blue ray player I would be fuming.
Daz
03-04-2007, 10:44
Sony better be able to fix that in a software update, else people will be pissed!
Flibster
03-04-2007, 11:04
Hmm. Getting more and more glad that I bought into HD-DVD now.
Was only £120 for the drive though. :D

Good old xbox360. :D

Simon/~Flibster
Mark
03-04-2007, 11:22
Sony better be able to fix that in a software update, else people will be pissed!
I would think they probably can. Anything that is firmware updateable should be OK providing the hardware itself can cope with the changes (and I don't see the new requirements being particularly demanding - after all, even mobile phones can run Java applets).

Shame that - I was hoping for an extra reason to help bury the PS3 forever. ;)
Will
03-04-2007, 14:45
A company fitted some Bluray players on this build in Germany - they are ****! they take 10mins to load the DVD! But the owner wanted Bluray 7 months ago... so it was installed. They are releasing a new version in 6 months of that particular player which works much better... ah well rich people are too impatient!
LeperousDust
03-04-2007, 15:11
Hmm. Getting more and more glad that I bought into HD-DVD now.
Was only £120 for the drive though. :D

Good old xbox360. :D

Simon/~Flibster

Just don't play DVD's on it for christ sake from what i've read...

/although that sounds it, that isn't from a fan of Bluray, i'm still on the fence...
Desmo
03-04-2007, 15:39
I didn't even get on the fence for this. I couldn't really care if neither existed :/
LeperousDust
03-04-2007, 16:59
I didn't even get on the fence for this. I couldn't really care if neither existed :/

Actually you're right, i'm basically the same, i can't afford either standards, if i could i wouldn't pay for the media, and i don't have a HDTV! :D
Tysonator
07-04-2007, 14:29
Again another format war, just what consumers do not need. I was hoping to buy some sort of HD type DVD player for my new LCD HD TV. However I am not paying those absurb prices from HD DVD players. The best ones I think IMO that are about are those dual players that will play both blue ray and HD. The only question I have is are these new generation players backward compatable ?
LeperousDust
07-04-2007, 16:11
Again another format war, just what consumers do not need. I was hoping to buy some sort of HD type DVD player for my new LCD HD TV. However I am not paying those absurb prices from HD DVD players. The best ones I think IMO that are about are those dual players that will play both blue ray and HD. The only question I have is are these new generation players backward compatable ?

At the moment there is only one, and last time i read it wasnt upto spec on one of the formats (that was before BluRay changed everything again). It's a good concept, but i'd wait before you have any decent multi format readers. Unless you really have some money to throw around (or NOTHING else to buy!), i'd wait for a good while on this one. If you really must spend upgrade your audio kit :D.
Flibster
07-04-2007, 18:05
Just don't play DVD's on it for christ sake from what i've read...

/although that sounds it, that isn't from a fan of Bluray, i'm still on the fence...

Not using it on my xbox360.
Using it on my PC. ;)

It's perfect for HD-DVD's

Got a bluray drive at work for backing up the servers. Yet to try a film in it though.

Simon/~Flibster
Tysonator
09-04-2007, 10:25
At the moment there is only one, and last time i read it wasnt upto spec on one of the formats (that was before BluRay changed everything again). It's a good concept, but i'd wait before you have any decent multi format readers. Unless you really have some money to throw around (or NOTHING else to buy!), i'd wait for a good while on this one. If you really must spend upgrade your audio kit :D.

I think I will wait for a while to see what happens on the format side. Things are not settled yet and prices are still rather high for my liking.
Robert
09-04-2007, 10:58
Not using it on my xbox360.
Using it on my PC. ;)

It's perfect for HD-DVD's

Got a bluray drive at work for backing up the servers. Yet to try a film in it though.

Simon/~Flibster

I don't think films work on the PC version.