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1. Comment - Universal Studios Unlikely to Ever Support Blu-ray

   (Sep 19, 2006 - 8:46 PM)

   I thought it was 500,000 in November and 2 million by year end ... at any rate, good point about the component (esp, the laser) being the same. BluRay uses the old Mpeg2 codec to compress the video vs Mpeg4 + VC1 for HDDVD, and I haven't seen that many discussions saying BluRay is better than HDDVD, but rather the contrary. And if Sony does decide to use a better compression algorithm in the future, that means they would have to re-encode all the current BluRay movies, and so would screw over anyone who buys BluRay discs today. One plus for BluRay is that there seems to be more movie studios exclusive support for the format. Is that true ?

2. Comment - Universal Studios Unlikely to Ever Support Blu-ray

   (Sep 19, 2006 - 4:15 PM)

   I think we can all agree that if Sony can deliver 6 million PS3 by March 2007, that all 6 million will be sold to all the Sony fanboys. Then would the manufacturing cost for the Blu-Ray laser go down and subsequently drive the cost of standalone Blu-Ray players down as well ? Perhaps down to HD-DVD player levels or lower. If price and video quality are the same, then it depends on content. Does BluRay have an advantage there ?