Comments on: Blu-Ray Wins the Right to Get Slaughtered by Download Services http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/ My Digital Brain Dump Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:41:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: D. Hollingsworth http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/comment-page-1/#comment-245 D. Hollingsworth Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:03:36 +0000 http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/#comment-245 Music downloads were supposed to take over as well, and that may be the case for folks who have never heard quality sound. If all you ever do is listen through an iPod or computer speakers, compromised audio downloads of questionable quality and compressed frequencies will do. Lastly, I do not trust for one second that internet providers will simply allow inexpensive downloads of large high quality files requiring increasingly high bandwidth. On a side note, there has been a resurgence of the old LP, with plenty of nice (reasonably priced) turntables and phono cartridges available. Is it just nostalgia? Or have folks discovered something about quality over immediacy. Music downloads were supposed to take over as well, and that may be the case for folks who have never heard quality sound. If all you ever do is listen through an iPod or computer speakers, compromised audio downloads of questionable quality and compressed frequencies will do. Lastly, I do not trust for one second that internet providers will simply allow inexpensive downloads of large high quality files requiring increasingly high bandwidth. On a side note, there has been a resurgence of the old LP, with plenty of nice (reasonably priced) turntables and phono cartridges available. Is it just nostalgia? Or have folks discovered something about quality over immediacy.

]]> By: jv SEATTLE http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/comment-page-1/#comment-244 jv SEATTLE Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:38:08 +0000 http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/#comment-244 Oh also, blu ray disk have scratch resistance surface. Good luck Oh also, blu ray disk have scratch resistance surface. Good luck

]]> By: jv SEATTLE http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/comment-page-1/#comment-243 jv SEATTLE Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:15:29 +0000 http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/#comment-243 I will have to disagree with you....Its going to take a long long time for download content will compete with a full 1080p lossyless sound of blu-ray disk. Physical HD disk provide better picture quality than downloading or streaming HD content. It will be a long long rough road for downloads to equal the quality of Blu-ray disk. NOBODY CAN ARGUE THAT…. ALLOW ME TO RANT NOW… THE NEXT HD MEDIA WAR WILL BE ALL ABOUT QUALITY NOT SUB-PAR CONTROLLED DOWNLOADS. DO YOU THINK DOWNLOADING COMPANIES ARE GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO BURN OR COPY THAT MOVIE FILE GOOD LUCK, NOT TO MENTION THE SPACE HD MOVIES USE WILL EAT UP A HARD DRIVE SPACE QUICKLY. ITS CRAZY IF YOU EVER THINK I WOULD GIVE UP MY PHYSICAL MEDIA ITS THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN PHYSICALLY OWN/STORE/COPY. What is the point of HD downloads if the picture quality of that media is sub-par 720p, Another note once a movie is in a download form as a user you loose the freedom of what you can do with that file. You think these companies will allow you to copy or burn them to a disk hell no, even if you could it would still be sub-par to Physical media blu-ray disk. I will have to disagree with you….Its going to take a long long time for download content will compete with a full 1080p lossyless sound of blu-ray disk. Physical HD disk provide better picture quality than downloading or streaming HD content. It will be a long long rough road for downloads to equal the quality of Blu-ray disk. NOBODY CAN ARGUE THAT…. ALLOW ME TO RANT NOW…
THE NEXT HD MEDIA WAR WILL BE ALL ABOUT QUALITY NOT SUB-PAR CONTROLLED DOWNLOADS. DO YOU THINK DOWNLOADING COMPANIES ARE GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO BURN OR COPY THAT MOVIE FILE GOOD LUCK, NOT TO MENTION THE SPACE HD MOVIES USE WILL EAT UP A HARD DRIVE SPACE QUICKLY. ITS CRAZY IF YOU EVER THINK I WOULD GIVE UP MY PHYSICAL MEDIA ITS THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN PHYSICALLY OWN/STORE/COPY. What is the point of HD downloads if the picture quality of that media is sub-par 720p, Another note once a movie is in a download form as a user you loose the freedom of what you can do with that file. You think these companies will allow you to copy or burn them to a disk hell no, even if you could it would still be sub-par to Physical media blu-ray disk.

]]> By: Chris Moran http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Chris Moran Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:54:17 +0000 http://www.bryanbartow.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-wins-the-right-to-get-slaughtered-by-download-services/#comment-242 I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. Chris Moran I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Chris Moran

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