https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/13.aspxThe main Meeting Place for BeoWorld members, and the place for General Questions, Answers and things to say! If you have any questions about anything Bang &amp; Olufsen related - please ask. If you have anything to say - please tell!enCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/188956.aspxMon, 09 Mar 2009 10:33:49 GMT41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:188956TripEnglish0https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/188956.aspxhttps://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=188956<p>I think it will be somewhere in between. SACD required a bigger investment in gear beyond just the player. Audio &amp; video were only starting to integrate so multi-channel amps and extra speakers were daunting. Combine that with the slim selection and you had a flightless bird.&nbsp;</p> <p>Blu-ray benefits from the equipment being largely in place. People were upgrading to HD tvs and multi-channel sound already. There is also more content available.</p> <p>Digital video is nipping at its heals, though, so it won&#39;t likely reach the mass proliferation of DVDs before it dies out.&nbsp;</p> <p>As far as buying one, though, I think it&#39;s smart to do so if you watch a lot of movies. DRM, not technology, is the major hold-up in making movies as easy as music. Once studios figure out their role in the distribution of their content, we should see some much easier solutions than what&#39;s out now.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/188951.aspxMon, 09 Mar 2009 10:26:43 GMT41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:188951cooldude0https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/188951.aspxhttps://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=188951<p>blu ray is here to stay in my opinion.</p> <p>Players are cheap now and you easily find them for 200$cad or less even and all new movies are available on blu ray. I bought mine on boxing day for 188+tx $ canadian ... a steal.</p> <p>Sure blu ray disks are more expensive than regular dvd&#39;s, but I don&#39;t buy any new releases the day they come out anyways.&nbsp;</p> <p>Dvd rental stores now carry blu ray movies (up to 5 pcs per new movie coming out, and they&#39;re almost always out..) I buy them about a month after their initial release date at about 21$ new or from my rental place (they sell the ones they rented out for about 10$).</p> <p>Still having a physical copy of something just can&#39;t be beaten. <br />The whole digitial thing with downloading at excruciating slow speeds and with errors and hard disk crashes etc .. is just not my cup of tea. I spend enough time on my computer every working day, so I don&#39;t really feel like spending more time with downloading stuff etc.......for entertainment.</p> <p>I just love being able to slip a disk in the player and press play and we&#39;re up and running ....</p> <p>Just my 2cents .....</p> <p>O.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/188944.aspxMon, 09 Mar 2009 09:44:36 GMT41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:188944avus170https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/188944.aspxhttps://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=188944<p>What do you think is blu ray future format or will this be the same as SACD to CD, where CD could not be superseded?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>