The SEC is like no other conference. NoSEC cancoast through all of their conference games..........

LSU beating VT badly was impressive, but remember that VT struggled in week 1 vs ECU.

First off, all information below is fromindustry insiders at the avsforum. I don't have the time to sift back through all of the pages to provide links for each, but you are more than welcome to. Here we go.........

Whatsome you guys don't get is that Blu-ray is not ready for mass production. Did you know that only Sony has the facilities toproduce BD-50 discs? And on top of that there are only two, and are only capable of producing 4-5 million discs per month. The BDA pushes BD-50's so much. but they can produce very little. Think about it. A movie like 300 can sell as many as 5 million in its first week on standard DVD. So it would take a whole month to make the discs and absolutely nothing else can be made during that time on BD-50. So why don't we see more BD-50 replication plants? It is estimated that they can cost more than $50 million to build. A BD-25 replication plant costs around $10 million, and actually there are only nine of these. So you have 11 total replication plants currently runningto make supposedmillions upon millions of discs for computers, video games, and movies. Nobody is building anymore right now since the format war is going on. Hate to invest all of that money if the technology went under.

HD DVD on the other hand is based off the physical disc structure of standard DVD. It is estimated to cost around $100-250k to reformat a current line to output in HD DVD or only 1 million to build one from the ground up. So with very little investment HD DVD's can be outputting in the same numbers as DVD in no time.

Also disc pricing is important. No one really knew how much that it cost to publish in the formats, but finally an independent company finally has pricing for customerswho want to publish in either format:

http://www.pacificdisc.com/PricingBluRay.html

As you can see, Pacificdisc can not even make BD-50's so BD-25's will have to do. But remember that the BDA is pushing BD-50's so you'll have to add $.25 - $1.00 more per disc if it was made on BD-50 (we don't know the exact number but many feel that it is definately higher than $.50 due to poor yield rates with BD-50)

http://www.pacificdisc.com/PricingHD-DVD.html

As you can see it is much cheaper to have packaged media in HD DVD. This is why many independent/indie studios have chosen HD DVD, because they can't produce in extremely large numbers, but even these figures matter for large studios like Paramount. Which I feel this is one of many decisions for them to go HD-exclusive. HD DVD can get to mass production quickly and the companies that are with them will make great profits.

What are your thoughts?

[QUOTE="bamafan3414"][QUOTE="shadyrec0rds"]rear projection suck :P well there ok but the pic. quality is no where near todays hdtvs :)shadyrec0rds

how??? less pixels and other junk like that lol...im not saying they're terrible im just saying there is better stuff out there that is better looking...maybe not bigger but im sure u had a hell of a time getting that in2 ur house :P .....1 person could move my t.v. but then again to some ppl it is the size of there t.v....just a personal opinion i guess

What do you mean less pixels? My rear projection is 1080i, so if you have a 720p lcd/plamsa, then my tv has more than yours. Get your facts straight please. A lcd/plamsa will more than likely have a slightly clearer picture than my TV, but I guarantee that I have better black levels

sounds like Bay was visited either by Jason Bourne of the HD DVD group, or received a nice check! Lol.

BadAndy642, those studios I believe were sitting in one camp from the beginning. They did not cut off the format that was outselling the other by 2 to 1.

jdang307

Outselling by 2:1 they were, but that does not mean that they were making twice the profit.

1080p only works through VGA or HDMI. If you don't have an elite or the new premium console with HDMI, you are gonna have to get the VGA cable.Ranger_x8b

Some HDTV's will accept 1080p via component, but very few do. If he can that's great.

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[QUOTE="BadAndy642"]Get over it Blu-fanboysTimstuff

Don't you mean "Get over it customers?" Because they are the ones who have truly been screwed over today.

If that's the case then Fox, Lionsgate, Sony, and Disney are screwing me, since I too am a HDM consumer. Just so happens that I am of HD DVD and you are Blu-ray.

You are the minority. You chose the wrong format, and therefore are entitled to no exclusive studio support. :twisted:

Whatever. I think that's ironic that you thought that I was reasonable when the Blockbuster announcement happened, I took it like a man, but when one bad thing happens to Blu-ray you go off like a two year old. link

Back on topic- Bay has retracted his negative statements towards Paramount. Said that he watched 300 on HD DVD and it rocked. Link