OPINION: DVD revival
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“The battle really begins now to move people away from DVD to Blu-ray,” Sony Electronics president Stanley Glasgow told reporters at his semi-annual roundtable last week, according to VB sister publication TWICE. “We have a lot of work to do now, so we are not gloating. Upscale DVD players have gotten better and better. We need to explain the additional feature sets, PIP, BD Live and other features.”
It may not only be upscaling DVD players that Blu-ray finds itself up against, however. Barely missing a beat after abandoning HD DVD, Toshiba and Microsoft, two of that formats principal backers, have turned their attention to an attempt to overhaul the standard DVD format by adding a host of new features and functionalities.
Read the full column at ContentAgenda.com.
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| Submitted by: | Sweeting 3/9/2008 12:55:34 PM PT |
| Location: | Washington, DC |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
Hold the Kool-Aid. The only reference in the piece to improved upconverters is in a quote from the president of Sony Electronics.
| Submitted by: | Dave Mariez 3/8/2008 8:50:28 PM PT |
There is no such thing as a "DVD revival". Studios killed their own products when they lowered prices to the point that you can buy many film released in the last couple years (franchises excluded) for under 10$. If you want to drink the Kool-Aid that Toshiba is handing out right now about "improved upconverting" go right ahead because that is the only feature that can be, so called, worked on. DVDs are 480p period and although upconverting give a "great" image quality by adding lines to upconvert to either 720p or 1080p, any errors or poorer master quality will also be upconverted (StarTrek:The Motion Picture for example). Line up any title that is out on DVD and on Blu-ray (or now dead HD-DVD) on a high-def display and anyone will be able to point out which one is the high-def title. I'm sure Toshiba would not be saying all this rubbish if they would have won the format war. As for Microsoft, perhaps you should read you own VB site or look in tech news but a deal has or is about to be reach for MS to start making a Blu-ray add-on to the 360. Toshiba are very sore losers because even after all this, they still try to confuse people about hi-def films. And of course, some like you gobble it up and write about it.
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