John
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/blu-ray-players-grab-93-percent-of-market-after-warner-went-blu/
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mazdaspeed
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You can get Blu-ray players from £250 now, so perhaps it will start to compete with DVD eventually and replace it possibly?
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C2RL R
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hmmm.....cant read to much into that since its only based on a weeks worth of data. still a very big difference though!
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John
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Figures are before hd-dvd was dead/after warner announced it was going blu-ray.
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Cosmo
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Both are useless anyway, downloading will replace the both.
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John
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Yes it will, not for at least a few years though imo.
Whats the fastest downloads anybody gets, couple of meg a second, even if home lines are upgraded in the near future the servers still have to be fast enough, we just won't be fast enough to download hi def content thats not heavily compressed.
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There's a storage implication as well, its just too expensive to download HD yourself currently.
Figures are quite stark though. I think most commentators agreed that there could only be one winner.
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
There's a storage implication as well, its just too expensive to download HD yourself currently.
I DLd almost 300GB of HD films in a month out here in spain, for free 
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i like graphs
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gianluigi
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they're pie charts, not graphs
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i too think downloading is the future.
i downloaded a legit full hd movie on xbox live in about an hour or so. Probably quicker, and cheaper then going out and buying/renting one. Its also stored digitally so no need for space to keep dvd boxes etc.
[Edited on 23-01-2008 by Steve]
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Russ
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 luigi > john
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Wow, does anone fucking care?
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Matt H
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Originally posted by willay
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by gianluigi
they're pie charts, not graphs
define:graph
A pictorial representation of information.
www.decs.sa.gov.au/limestonecoast/files/links/Glossary_of_mathematical_t.doc
SMB
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It's a circle graph 
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
i too think downloading is the future.
i downloaded a legit full hd movie on xbox live in about an hour or so. Probably quicker, and cheaper then going out and buying/renting one. Its also stored digitally so no need for space to keep dvd boxes etc.
[Edited on 23-01-2008 by Steve]
What resolution/compression method was this, hd films on disc are ~20 gig, was it divx compressed?
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quote:
Originally posted by John
quote:
Originally posted by Steve
i too think downloading is the future.
i downloaded a legit full hd movie on xbox live in about an hour or so. Probably quicker, and cheaper then going out and buying/renting one. Its also stored digitally so no need for space to keep dvd boxes etc.
[Edited on 23-01-2008 by Steve]
What resolution/compression method was this, hd films on disc are ~20 gig, was it divx compressed?
The XBL movies are roughly 5-6GB (IIRC)
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by John
quote:
Originally posted by Steve
i too think downloading is the future.
i downloaded a legit full hd movie on xbox live in about an hour or so. Probably quicker, and cheaper then going out and buying/renting one. Its also stored digitally so no need for space to keep dvd boxes etc.
[Edited on 23-01-2008 by Steve]
What resolution/compression method was this, hd films on disc are ~20 gig, was it divx compressed?
no, 720p quality
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