Sony's Blu-Ray DVD

[DudeAsInCool]

If you want a glimpse of Hollywood's near future, you need only watch a single scene in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia on the split screen at the ground-floor showroom of Sony's New York headquarters. On the 70-inch TV, you see swarms of Arab camel-riders racing across the blazing desert. On the screen's left half, the Arabs are so blurred together that they can hardly be distinguished from the swirling sands. When they cross over to the screen's right half—presto!—they pop into such sharp focus that their facial features are recognizable. It's the same screen and the same Lawrence of Arabia. The difference is that the source for the left half of the screen is a conventional DVD, and the source for the right half is a Blu-Ray DVD, which, although identical in size and shape to the conventional DVD, holds at least five times as many color pixels, or picture elements.

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[Ken]

Blu-Ray is great, if you like copy protection up the ass.

I'd only use a blu-ray disc for data file storage. I'm not buying a single retail/rental movie disc in place of a DVD. I'm not buying a "player" either.

I'll stick with DVD, and I'll buy a Blu-Ray drive just for data purposes.