OMG! Microsoft Comfirms going with Blu Ray!

[Shabadage]

I wouldn't be surprised if little scratches massive mess up the discs, that's alot of data in a small area.

 

[ZeWarrior]

I wouldn't be surprised if little scratches massive mess up the discs, that's alot of data in a small area.

Blu-rays have a hard coating on it to protect it from scratches.

 

[ZeWarrior]

both of these still have truth to them

and i fail to see how its ironic

ps: blu-ray disks can still be damaged as much as dvds because the protective coating is required as the laser needs a much cleaner surface on a bluray disk than a dvd disk to read it properly

BS to both. The Wii is clearly in 1st Place. And I bet you wouldn't be saying that if HD-DVD won. You fail as a fanboy as much as you fail in life. BTW, I never stated they can't be damaged, and due to the hard coating the BD Discs don't pick up the finger prints and little scratches from handling the discs, do some research before posting BS.

 

[VVoltz]

Officially, MS is NOT releasing a BD drive anytime soon, it has been confirmed by official sources.

 

[Veho]

Meh, screw all that.


Is there a point in getting a Blu-Ray player/recorder/computer device?

A 300 GB holographic disc is already available. $180 per disc.

A 1 TB Tera-Disc is near completion.

And there are already announcements of a disc capable of storing several terabytes of data.

How much time does the Blu-Ray have, to collect the spoils of the format war? How long from the moment prices drop enough to make it really accessible to the moment a new format comes along and squashes it?

 

[MaHe]

both of these still have truth to them

and i fail to see how its ironic

ps: blu-ray disks can still be damaged as much as dvds because the protective coating is required as the laser needs a much cleaner surface on a bluray disk than a dvd disk to read it properly

BS to both. The Wii is clearly in 1st Place.
Don't stray from the topic -- you and I both know he was talking about 360 vs. PS3 not the whole console generation.

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You fail as a fanboy as much as you fail in life. BTW, I never stated they can't be damaged, and due to the hard coating the BD Discs don't pick up the finger prints and little scratches from handling the discs, do some research before posting BS.

Sorry, your argument doesn't hold any water. True, the disks do have the "Durabis" protective-layer on them, but on the other hand, the damage of a scratch on a BD is still far more 'fatal' than the damage from the same-sized scratch on DVDs. Thus, the percentage of damaged disks is still approximately the same. And frankly, that's too much for me. And yes, the same is true for all optical disks, that's why I hate them. Note that this is just my opinion!

P.S.: Your bias is hurting your credibility. Try to be more open-minded, after all, there are more serious problems in the world than loyalties to certain brands.
It's only a hobby, so chill. I hate to take sides (I really do), but JohnDrake was absolutely right -- fanboys are a cancer plaguing the gaming community, quite similar to what racism and fundamentalism are to the humanity as whole. So why argue over matters that are absolutely unimportant? There was absolutely no need to insult Linkiboy like that, for example.

 

[thebigboss14]

Microsoft has a good idea because that's going to extend the Xbox360 features( or maybe they will launch a new model) so developers have more range in a disc to make a real good game without worrying about all the space they need.

 

[supermodchips]

Uh thebigboss14, did you realise that this thread is over a year old?

 

[Athlon-pv]

what a classic

 

[p1ngpong]

Uh thebigboss14, did you realise that this thread is over a year old?

He has been desperately spamming the forum for four days in an attempt to get enough posts to enter the competition.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

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