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Topic: New Blu-Ray prices coming down
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Julio Roberto
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 938
From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Registered: Oct 2008
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posted 11-27-2009 11:00 AM
New blu-rays are coming out with added features to accomodate higher-quality formats (more specifically, FHD stereoscopic 3-D) and recently introduced HDMI 1.4 outputs.
http://www.panasonic.com/3d/media/pdf/panasonic_hd3d_qanda.pdf
[Link is to Q&A with Panasonic on 3D-at-home, answers include stuff like they are trying to standarize 3D blu-rays specs by year's end and how current blu-rays players won't be able to play 3D titles but in 2D]
http://3dathome.org/report-detail.aspx?item=1887&code=about-consortium-news§ion=about
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San Jose, Calif. - November 9, 2009 – The 3D@Home Consortium announced today the completion and transmittal of key documents to be used in the creation of digital 3D standards by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) working groups. The document ST2-01 3D Digital Interface Requirements enables the standards committees to have input from the wide cross-section of the industry which 3D@Home represents. The documents ST4-03 3D Active Shutter Glasses Database” and ST4-04 3D Passive Glasses Database assist the standards committees in understanding the range of products that will be interacting with the 3D systems. Both documents were requested by CEA working groups as part of their discovery process before working on the technical details of the standards.
If you are interested in 3D playback at home, you may want to hold on the purchase of a blu-ray player 'til next Christmas, when the 3D models are expected.
And, BTW, since "new players" and "new TV's" are "needed" anyway for 3D, the "new" format may include "surprises" such as support for higher-quality blu-ray content [i.e. 10-bits, more frame rates, etc]
We'll see if/what they agree to include in the "new" standard. So far, they have already agreed to full-HD-per-eye. That, of course, means twice the resolution/bandwidth/call-it-what-you-want as current players.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 11-27-2009 01:19 PM
quote: Mike Blakesley
Lots of people buying the Blu-Ray machines are buying their first video player, so they're building their libraries.
I kind of doubt that's the case considering well over 130 million standalone DVD players were sold in North America between 1997 and 2005. I certainly don't know anyone personally who has a Blu-ray player but has never owned a DVD player.
OTOH, I do know quite a few people who simply never got into buying movies on DVD even with the movies being available at dirt cheap prices. There's a decent chance some of the people in that category see more value in collecting movies with high definition quality.
I think the big shift from standard definition television to high definition is helping Blu-ray movie sales. High definition still seems like a new, novel thing to many people. Once a customer understands the difference and especially if he has bought a large HDTV set he is going to want a lot of HD quality content to play on the new toy. Catalog titles on Blu-ray, particularly if they're well produced, are going to generate some sales.
Price is also a big, big thing. That's making a difference on whether I buy certain catalog titles or not. I ordered Blazing Saddles, The Good The Bad & The Ugly and Monsters vs. Aliens because they were priced really low at Amazon. I probably would have passed if they had $20 or higher price tags.
I think another thing that is taking place is Blu-ray player owners are buying some different catalog titles they may have never owned on DVD. I have a lot of DVDs in my collection that I don't plan on updating to Blu-ray. But there's other catalog titles I've thought about buying in the past and now am considering for Blu-ray. For example, I never owned a copy of Leon: The Professional, but I bought a copy on Blu-ray because it had very good video quality, both US and Int'l cuts of the film and a $15 price.
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