But seriously no, it would not resemble that notion in any way. If Blu-ray was to be represented in this commercial properly, it would first have at least 15 dancers flip on to the stage interrupting the hdd dancers and then to show that blu-ray expands beyond the movie aspect, it would also have a band come unto the stage to play the music for the dancers. This would represent the gaming aspect of the blu-ray format revealing that blu-ray brings unification of both movie lovers and gamers as it did the dancers and the band. That's next-gen for you. Can't wait for the Blu-ray commercials.
Saying in a smurf voice, "I hate HD-DVD", but then after watching the dancers say's in a whisper, "I love HD-DVD", and has a tear going down his face as he's packing his bags. Ok, seriously though, We see it all so complete now, the Xbox 360 has not rushed but methodically released everything with a certain point in mind. PERFECTION. Not like sony's so called online, but well thought out and tested. It's a more than complete gaming system and I love it and all its so offering in such a bad ass way. Too bad sony has wasted all there soon or not so soon owners of the so called ps3.
Also, let's not all forget, the HDMI (if needed) cable is now shown to be coming dec.1st and may also be included in the HD-DVD offering for no extra charge.
The same thing happening but a white guy comes in with Blue-Ray T-Shirt and hangs all the black kids. Sony is Racist. LOL, just making fun of them for making that dumb Billboard.
and it was denined. No hard feelings or anything but, can someone please tell me what I did wrong so i can fix it next time? Sometimes it feels like this place has a feel staff members and some like some articles, while others dislike the same ones. Maybe i'm way off? I don't know. I just like this site and want the best way to post news from my site.
Its going to be ncie to see when PS3 are selling like hotcakes and blu-ray is going to be everywhere! The OPTIONAL Hd-DVD drive will be collecting dust on the store shelves. Thats gonna be so funny. 600 dollar PS3 sold out in minutes, Its a PLAYSTATION people, a PLAYSTATION!!! Blu-Ray is going to be everywhere, not 100% of 360 owners will get the optional HD-DVD drive, but 100% of PS3 owners will get the Blu-RAY player, once again, MS messed up, Sony beat them. This is too funny.
Not to reiterate but it's too true not to. "not 100% of 360 owners will get the optional HD-DVD drive, but 100% of PS3 owners will get the Blu-RAY player" Now who is going to win? Odds are saying that by next year when sony ships more ps3s for its fanbase of millions, Blu-ray will be the winner.
Non of those people have to have an hdtv, if they have the PS3, which has the blu-ray player, thats all Sony needs. As long as the blu-ray player is in the house, so whenever the home owner decides to buy an HDTV, he/she will not think twice about buying another HD pLayers, they already have one. And lets be honest, people are going to be buying HDTV's its the future. Its like saying, back in the 50's, no one will buy a color tv.
gotta agree with boink. Both formats are not going to make it. Maybe if the mass market had already embraced and owned HDTVs in a majority of homes, either might have a shot.
John Q. public doesn't even know what bluray or HDDVD are and doesn't want to shell out to rebuy their dvd collection.
Also these companies need to put out high definition disks on either format that people will be wowed over. Come on, blurays 1st dual layered 50gig disk is freakin Click. Not the kind of movie that screams wow.
Both are going to be laserdisc 2.0, a niche market at best in a few years until some better technology replaces it, or digital distribution takes off.
you keep thinking that. they will be sold out everywhere. all the time. unless idiots will pay 2400 dollars for one on ebay. or be the lucky ones to get a ps3.
doubt it, i dont know anyone who has faith in sony anymore, all my friends have 360, and at the end of the day we dont need blu ray or hd dvd, if i want to play either format ill just buy a duo format dvd player wen they come out, the ps3 is going to have a strugle selling itself on its own merrits, blu ray aint going to sell it, the price is off putting, and sorry but it dont have much game support, sony are spinners its prolly not even more powerful then 360, but they wouldt let that cat outa the bag cos they would never sell a console if it was true, im a consumer and i have enough brains to decide what dvd format i want, and i dont want a console as a dvd player, whats the point of putting xtra wear n tear on my console?
I was playing GRAW online with Jin the other night. This guy is a f@g.. No offense Jin but you even sound like 1... You bash the 360 but yuou own 1. The reason I know you have 1 is your gamertag is Jin Kazama and I killed you alot
they both will be good but for me it's about the video game experience, (hence the word video game console)and aslong as i can play my games movie playback is extra but i dont want to have to pay extra (hd-dvd) nor do i want to be forced to purchase something that i dont need (blue-ray) and thats why i like and support microsofts decision, because they put that choice into the consumers hands unlike sony wich forces you to buy something that might be good in the long run but the key word is MIGHT, and in my situation it probally wont ever be good so im ok with the standard dvd player thats in the xbox360 and if they incorporate the xvid and divx options i will really say the hell with the other products :) so horray for xbox360 and booooooooo for the ps3
If you wanna play Resistance on 5 DVDs, be my guest. Blu-ray was the right choice to make for gamers since it was put in, you guessed it, for gamers! =]
I mean, come on. Developers are joyous over having 6 times the storage capacity of dual-layer DVDs because it lets them create the amount of content that they want to create, without any compromises to quality or limits on artistic freedom. When 360 developers are already complaining about the limits of its DVD drive you know something's up.
By the end of 2006 there'll be an HDTV in approximately 1 out of 5 homes in the U.S. With the ownership of HD televisions comes the need for HD content, and the PS3 gives consumers premium value at a very reasonable price. No need for expensive add-ons, upgrades, or annual fees since everything is included right out of the box.
Resistance is just a good example of lame programming and probably too much CGI stuff going on there.
Last gen average:
2001: just under 2 GB 2006: about 3 to 4 GB. MAX SL-DVD
Growth about 50% to 100% in 5 years. Project that on this new gen:
2005/2006 games: starts at SL-DVD even Oblivion End of this lifecycle: 50% to 100% of that, which is 6 GB to one DL-DVD
And Gears of War with 12 hours of SP and 10 MP maps looks better and is better then Resistance. So what's the point exactly?
Just compare it to this:
Doom 3, somewhere between 3 and 4 GB for last gen and a great game
Terminator 3, about 6 GB of pure sh!t, man that game was sooooo bad (as was the programming)
Now there you have it. And have you read the new techniques that compress data by 70%? You've just been raped by Sony costprice 300 dollars BluRay, while the good old DVD just adds 20 dollar to the costprice of an console. That's what's fills Sony's empty pockets!
However, you forget that when the ps3 sells out, so does the blu-ray player. When 360 sells out, hdd player doesn't. Blu-ray is definitely at an advantage. I would complain about how Sony is forcing the format down my mouth, but whenever i reminisce on the first time both ps2 and xbox came out with dvd players, I realize that wow, if not for those systems, i would still be using a vcr. Therefore, its my conclusion that just the same way ps2 with the built in dvd helped to usher me into the previous gene, ps3 and blu-ray will once again help usher the world into the next generation. There is nothing wrong with being given a hand into the next gen. We can all thank Sony for creating such innovative motifs that help everyone get a taste of the next generation of entertainment.
Wasn't this about the 360 HD DVD "MOVIE" player? I think this HD DVD player is a good "add-on" if you want to get into HD movies....I just think its funny that DJ always has a negative comment about anything 360 related, and I know the same goes for SOME 360 fanboys but don't complain so much when you are just as guilty with comments like this:
"If you wanna play Resistance on 5 DVDs, be my guest." -uhm, no thanks....I would rather play GOW on the 1 DVD it will be released on....and maybe Bioshock, Mass Effect, Splinter Cell, Halo 3 and so many more all on 1 disk.....and finally next year this time, when there are some titles "I'm" interested in like MGS4, I'll pick up a PS3, but by then I'm sure "I" won't remember, uhm, ah-oh yeah Resistance.
BTW, I'm curious, if a game like say GOW was indeed on 2 disks....would it ruin the whole experience, in other words does having to switch the disk after __ hrs. of gameplay mean its a "bad" game?...or is ____ a better game than RE4 because it was only 1 disk? please enlighten me, DJ or anyone who has a logical reply.
That Microsoft doesn't allow their devs to let their games span multiple discs unless it's for bonus content. It's partially for damage control. If 360 titles came on multiple discs while titles that looked just as good or better on PS3 only used one, the media would paint the situation as blatant proof that the 360 is behind in its disc technology.
The main reason behind this decision is that games which span multiple discs also require additional QA, and there are lots of games that would suffer horrifically from being split up across multiple discs. Grand Theft Auto and the Jak series are just a small example.
FeralPhoenix, along with many other people, use Gears of War as an example of how DVDs are perfectly fine for gaming. The problem with this logic is that Gears of War is a linear gameplay experience. Splitting it right down the middle would be perfectly fine. The developers would be able to add more content, beef up the graphics, get higher quality and a larger variety of audio, etc.
But now that the game is on two discs, the question now is on which disc the developer should put the multiplayer content. Should everything be placed on disc 1 or disc 2? Should it be placed on both? What if the multiplayer data eats too much into the single-player content of the discs? The only choice the developers would have is to spread the game across 3 discs instead, or cut down certain gameplay elements.
It's a simple scenario that gets a lot worse once 'sandbox games' are thrown in the scenario. For example, in the Jak Series you can literally go from one side of the world to the other within a minute, and often times the missions jump 20~50 miles within a very short time frame. Switching discs every 10 minutes would be ridiculous, especially considering the amount of non-linear mission/event sequences.
Solution? Make everything linear and just create the illusion of an open world. Sure you're hiding hardware difficiencies through clever gameplay setups, but that's besides the point. The point is that games should not be dictated by hardware limitations and Sony understands this. It's why they chose to include a CD drive in the PS1 when everyone else was using cartridges. It's why they chose the use DVDs on the PS2 when CDs were already an established and proven format. The common argument before each launch was that Sony was wrongfully forcing unproven tech onto consumers when in fact they'd be doing a great disservice to their customers if they held back game developers from achieving their technological and artistic goals.
This does not mean that Xbox 360 games are somehow going to be bad because they're on DVD, and anyone who states really needs to take a good look at the past. N64 titles, while held back by space limitations, were still fun. There wasn't enough room for cinematic videos since the game data was already being squeezed into 32~64 MB of space, but it didn't matter to most gamers. PS1 games in comparison ranged from 200MB to 2.8GB(4 discs, Final Fantasy 8 & 9), but that didn't stop developers from making such great titles as Smash Bros, Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart, and Goldeneye. But there's also no telling how much better those titles could've been had the developers not been limited by storage capacity.
The best example of the importance of storage capacity difference is comparing the PS1 and N64 versions of WipeoutXL. Anyone arguing that more storage capacity adds nothing to the gameplay experience should see the difference that higher-quality audio, higher quality visuals, and breathtaking cinematic sequences can make.
Awesome got to have one of thoses babys.HDDVD
They should add a moron with one leg with a t-shirt saying BluRay to the video trying to dance, but falling of the stage actually.
That would pin the sale of the HD-DVD for sure! ;)
LMAO nice one TheMart
Saying in a smurf voice, "I hate HD-DVD", but then after watching the dancers say's in a whisper, "I love HD-DVD", and has a tear going down his face as he's packing his bags.
Ok, seriously though, We see it all so complete now, the Xbox 360 has not rushed but methodically released everything with a certain point in mind. PERFECTION.
Not like sony's so called online, but well thought out and tested. It's a more than complete gaming system and I love it and all its so offering in such a bad ass way. Too bad sony has wasted all there soon or not so soon owners of the so called ps3.
Also, let's not all forget, the HDMI (if needed) cable is now shown to be coming dec.1st and may also be included in the HD-DVD offering for no extra charge.
The same thing happening but a white guy comes in with Blue-Ray T-Shirt and hangs all the black kids.
Sony is Racist.
LOL, just making fun of them for making that dumb Billboard.