I want Kill Bill 1 and 2 and The Last Samurai for blu-ray.....hahaha
The first movies that i will see on my PS3...
North America and South America with movies of the same region??
OH, MAN!!!!!THIS ROCKSS!!!!
C'MON BLU-RAY, LETS KICK SOME ASS!!!!hahahahaaha

Who came out with the friggin idea of regions??? that guy should be jailed forever!!! its the worst idea in history!!! Oh and someone asked why will they re-release movies in blu-ray that are already in dvd, well blu-ray and hd-dvd support 1080i (i think 720p too), while nowadays dvds only support 480i (and 480p? not sure)...bad bad bad, what a shame, it should support 1080p

i bet that half of hte people in this forum are 360 fanboys and own a 360. They are saying HD DVD is better because they are scared to admit they bought their 360 to early.Plus the HD DVD on the 360 wont be a game player.. its just for movies.. On the ps3 the BR can play games aswelll.. there fore making BR more compatible

no one gonna buy blu-ray when it first come out if the player is 600-800 bucks

i feel sorry for everyone whos gonna buy a PS3 and BR player. Your wallets will be empty before you know it.

I shed a tear for the betamax. Blu-ray will most likely follow right in its foot steps. Even though I am rooting for HD DVD, No way am I gonna pay $799 for a player/drive to watch either.

I heard Blu-Ray discs will not only cost 100 dollars each, but will also cause cancer! It looks as if the HD-DVD format will win on its non-cancer inducing merits.

How come no one has brought up the fact that Sony will not allow Blu-Ray discs to be copied to a hard drive? I used to support Blu-Ray until I found about that. Forget having a HD media center PC. That's why Microsoft endorses HD-DVD - they're pushing the PC as a media center with their next OS, Vista. What good is that if you can't legally burn HD movies to your hard drive? HD-DVD will allow you to burn a copy to your hard drive, Blu-Ray will not.

After this rootkit mess, I'll never trust Sony again. Blu-Ray looks superior on paper, but Sony will find a way to mess it up, trust me. Look at the PSP - great hardware, terrible support from Sony. The homebrewers do more in a month for the PSP than Sony has in the past year.

A company that will put a rootkit on your computer without so much as a prompt is no friend of the consumer. Forget Sony, hope that HD-DVD catches up in capacity.

Anyway's there's no 90gb HD-DVD stop smoking, and Blu-Ray allows you to download additional content. Onto the Disc. get your Facts straigth people!

Well at CES right now, Sony is handing out free Blu-Ray Movies! Like F4, hitch etc.

OK im hoping for Blu-Ray but as people said before just becasue something is better dosent mean they'll buy: think Beta Vs. VHS. ANd in reply to the guy said SACD flopped, SACD just came out a few years ago and these things take a good amount of time to get going. CD came out around '82 and didnt take off until the late '80s and early '90s. GO BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

First of all, last time I checked the biggest Blu-Ray Disc was 50GB. I saw a 90GB HD-DVD at the Digital Life Expo at the Jacob Javitts Center back in September. A HD-DVD Rep took one out of the player and showed me and my friends. He said it was just finalized a few weeks before the expo, and HD-DVD is supported by the DVD forum which makes it the official new format. I smell a Laser Disc coming on. I also want to now why everyone thinks whole seasons will be on on disc. HD-DVD isn't going to catch on fast. Neither will Blu-Ray. I know people who aren't yet comfortable with DVD's and now you're going to ask them to pick yet another new format, with the same movies they just purchased on DVD. Also if the first Blu-Ray players are going to be $1800, either SONY is willing to risk going bankrupt or they believe their fans are rich. PS3 is going to have to be more than a Blu-Ray player because it has way more capabilities. Microsoft needs to fire whomever is creating their marketing strategy and Nintendo is needs to keep doing what their doing. I love my 360 but I just wish Microsoft would stop contradicting themselves.

Blu-ray in PS3 shaking the WORLD

Blu-ray in PS3 shaking the WORLD

Time to set everyone straight.

Q: "What's the difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray?"

A: They are both disc formats that will be used to publish movies and, in Blu-Ray's case, games (for the PS3). The difference is size and quality. HD-DVD holds 15 GB per layer, Blu-Ray holds 25 GB per layer. What does this mean, you ask? It means that Blu-Ray can hold longer movies (or more movies, when it comes to compilations) in higher HD resolutions. It also means, in Blu-Ray's case, that Blu-Ray can hold 7 times more information for games than the standard DVDs being used by current consoles.

Q: "Why are old movies being re-released in next-gen formats?"

A: For people who just spent their Holiday bonuses on massive plasma-screen TVs and want their movies to work with it.

Q: "Won't HD-DVD probably win because Blu-Ray is more expensive?"

A: The first HD-DVD players have been announced, and cost $800 and $500 for the two versions. No Blu-Ray players have been announced except for the PS3, which is all but guaranteed to be cheaper than that. What's all this about Blu-Ray being more expensive?

Q: "Won't this war really be decided by the popularity of the Xbox 360 vs. PS3?

A: No. There will probably be an HD-DVD add-on for the 360, but it will only be for movies. No games will be published in HD-DVD for the 360. All PS3 games will be in Blu-Ray. The 360 will play no role in the success of HD-DVD, but the PS3 will almost definitely play a role in that of Blu-Ray.

I hope that helps some people. I will probably come up with many more questions to answer, but whatever I'm done for now.

Edit: Oh wow, wait til I've written it out and posted before showing that I can't space it out. Thanks, Gamespot.

Blu-Ray sucks it's guts. Just buy the crappy PS3 to find out you Sony-lovers!

BD is THE future of industry.

i hope blu ray wins

Blu-Ray sounds exciting and expensive to maintain & support as well :-S

i hope the just decide on one cus this fude is really stupid):

Most casual movie viewers don't really find anything wrong with current DVDs, so this whole new format will probably end up becoming a huge flop. I remember when Sony tried doing away with CDs, by coming up with the ideas of MiniDisc and SACD (super audio CD), and both turned out to be a huge failure. The picture quality on current DVD formats are good enough, and companies need to quit trying to reinvent the wheel.

Dune in HD! That's it, I'm sold. . . it better be the extended 3-hour version though.

things r jus gettin started lets what happens by thi time nxt yr

if you want to know the diff about the two go to this site http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-blu-ray-discs.htm?referrer=adwords_campaign=bluraydiscs_ad=027641&_content_kw=blueray

Blu-Ray defininately has the advantage so far.

With only 20 discs you'd have a terrabyte of data backed up.. That's probably the majority of peoples entire data collections.

I do not want blue-ray for movies.. I just want the high capacity disks to store things on... 50 gigs per discs is a dream come true in that respect.

who the heck wants all of these old movies in HD? what a waste. rambo: first blood? robocop? total recall? stealth? awful awful movies. and all, except for stealth, are so old. how about releasing new and current movies with that new technology? i'm not buying hd-dvd or blu-ray until they figure out what format to go with. i'm not sure what will happen. beta was superior to vhs, but for some reason brainless americans bought up vhs. same thing could happen to blu-ray.

Over 10 million UMD's sold in about 6 months, and the PSP hasn't even sold all that well. The PS3 will sell several times what the PSP has, and Sony has it's own movie studio with plenty of material. It won't take long for everyone else to get on board. Every home video commercial you see now says "Coming Tuesday on DVD and PSP!!!" The PSP is the only device that can even play those things and they still apparently sell extremely well. Blu-ray will dominate on an even larger scale. The format war is already won.

I wouldn't count out HD-DVD yet, folks. True, Blu-Ray has the edge in storage capability, but technical achievement doesn't always win out. If that were the case, we would be using Betamax tapes still! Speaking of which, Sony hasn't exactly achieved a good record in setting standards: Betamax, Minidisks, Memorysticks, I could go on. That, and Sony's pursuit of alienating customers by putting in unforgivable copy protection in their products, could swing the vote. If and when Microsoft embraces the HD-DVD format, that could swing the tide AWAY from Sony's format. Never mind how many titles Sony managed to line up; many more were lined up for the DiVX DVD format, and we know how that ended. The biggest variable is how many manufacturers will line up with which format: Sony can line up the software, since it owns all or part of those studios, but most manufacturers are behind the HD-DVD, and where the hardware goes.......

WOW!!!! i can't wait to buy all those movies coming out on blue-ray that i have already seen and don't like enough to buy on a standard dvd!!!!!

If PS3 fail to capture the market like PS2, Sony will be in deep trouble.

Blu-ray is going to dominate in the long run, there's no doubt about it. Gates is a fool to think selling an external HD-DVD drive is going to please its supporters. People want next-gen games, not just HD movies. Hell, why not buy a stand-alone HD-DVD Player instead? Lame. And if MS decides to make games in HD-DVD format, omfg. Biggest money leechers in the world.

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Europe is stuck with Africa in the regional code for blue ray.... yeah im gonna be importing all does African games.... Thx Sony...

Cooo. Blu-Ray will probably win, because unlike beta you can still watch pr0n flicks for the fatties.

folks, it's a sad day when there are fanboys of a media format...

two words for ya!

laser disk

As I have already stated, MiniDisc did NOT disappear. Only b/c it wasnt popular in the US, doesn't mean it was NOT popular elsewhere (ie Asia and Japan). Then again, the XB1 failed in Japan... yet in the US, it is (was) considered a viable format. Again, do not judge a lack of interest in the US to reflect the rest of the world.

Yeah, but are consumers ready for the next format. I don't think so. Even for video formats, it is too soon. It wouln't suprise me if it did a Mini Disc and dissapeared for a good 2 years

All the people that will buy a PS3 will need a 1080p HDTV in order to take any advantage of Blue Ray. Microsoft does not plan on using the new announced HD-DVD addon for games, it's for movies only. DVD-9 storage with compression will be enough for the next 4 years when Microsoft releases yet another console. Remember Microsoft is moving the market, They changed the 5 year console time to 4 years. Think about it.

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Here is one price I found on a blu ray player http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/04/pioneer_unveils_blu-ray_players/

Sony must be taking a pretty big hit on the PS3

People who claim one format will completely wipe out the other any time soon are incredibly ignorant in their viewpoints. I doubt there will be any significant impact of these two formats in the next 3 to 5 years. First of all, there is the issue of getting people to buy the players required for the new discs. Considering the price of the announced HD-DVD players and the likelyhood that PS3 will be at least $400, if not 500 (given all the new technology involved, you'd be insane to think it will be cheaper), mainstream America will not have the playing capacity to drive sales of the Blue-Ray or HD-DVD disks. Also, it will be hard convincing people to dish out the extra money to upgrade to new formats, when many just recently switched to DVD. The added benifits of more storage and HD Capability are not enough to warrant the upgrade. Current DVDs have enough space for most movies and upscaling DVD players do a respectable job of converting them to HD. Using Blue-Rays or HD-DVDs for anything except boxed sets would be a monumental waste of space at this point.

ignorance is bliss ...most of you people saying stuff like this is going to cost so much more money then this are fu**ing stupid.

Go blu-ray !!!

Why is everyone saying that MiniDisc is dead? Hello? It still is a very popular format in Asia.

Also, a year before the PSP was released, Sony upgraded the format to Hi-MDs which now store 1 gig of data on a RECORDABLE MD (music and/or data). SCE should have used Hi-MDs as their format of choice b/c of that very reason. Imagine it like this: MD and audiophiles would buy PSPs and gamers would purchase portable Hi-MD recorders. Win-win sitch for Sony. Too bad they went UMD.

Some MD links:
http://www.minidisc.org
http://www.minidisco.com/

And for the record, I support neither format - I'm perfectly fine with buying three-disc special editions from Japan for my reigon-free DVD player, and will be until DVDs go the way of VHS, thank you. And need I remind you all the VHS isn't a dead format? How else can we find cult movies that will never be put on DVD? And last I checked, DVDs can't record yet. The point I am making in this non-sequittor is that much like videos aren't completely gone, don't expect DVDs to go away for a long time either.

puertorock_papi, you are pretty shortsighted if you think that more people will buy PS3s than HD-DVD players. If DVDs were all destroyed, which do you think the non-gaming 75% of the nation would go for - the cheaper format player, or the video game console. Get your head out of your ass before you make stupid coments ok?

I'd kinda like to see whther or not Sony will try to raise the price of the Blu-Ray DVD's to see if people will still buy them at a higher price as opposed to DVD's

What the hell are blue-ray dvd's? I've never heard of them.