Am I the only person in the entire world who is under the belief that the futures of the Blu-Ray format and the PS3 are not necessarily intertwined?
I've been poking around the net quite a bit today and every single thread, post, rumor, or whisper involving the PS3 inevitably mentions Blu-Ray, and vice-versa.
The PS3 is supposedly superior to every other system because it reads Blu-Ray. But why is that exactly? Because Blu-Ray can THEORETICALLY hold eleventy-trillion gigabytes of data? So then what stops game developers from simply releasing games on multiple, smaller format discs? Last I checked they've been doing that since CDs first became popular.
With Blu-Ray you can hold more movie content on a single disc than a standard DVD. Ok, but I honestly couldn't care less about watching 9 hours of Ben Affleck outakes on the Dare Devil BD special addition. Nor will my life change substantially if the disc makers were able to cram a Swahili dub version onto my BD copy of Condorman.
But what about picture quality? With Blu-Ray's available space you'll be able to see super-ultra-mega-ridiculous HD high quality. I'm going to be brutally honest here, high quality picture will not make a crappy movie into a good movie, ever. I'd rather watch an original VHS copy of Glory in its magnetic tape blurred goodness than an ultra-sharp Mila Jovich running helplessly around looking frantic and trying to be hardcore in UltraViolet. Honestly I can barely tell the difference between most HD feeds and SD feeds 90% of the time anyway.
And furthermore...oh wait, I forgot the other reasons why Blu-Ray has an awesome level rating of 12,000,000. Let's recap and see if I can get back on track:
Reason 1: A theoretical ton of space to do something.
Reason 2: ....
Most of you know that Kiwi and I purchased a Wii this last weekend, and I can honestly say that it's the first time I've been legimately "wowed" by something related to video games in a really long time. When we first got the Wii we were at Kiwi's parent's house, and something freaking amazing happened: her mother played a video game with us. Not only her mother; but her sisters, brother-in-laws, 2-year old daughter, husband, and father ALL sat down and played a video game together. Kiwi's mother is a long time anti-game fanatic. She thinks they're a waste of time, they rot kid's brains, and they kill people in Africa. But that night playing the Wii she actually sat in front of a video game and laughed while doing it (the game was Rayman Raving Rabbids, if you have the chance to play it I highly recommend it).
Purchasing a PS3 makes it game playing as usual. You sit with a controller in your hand move your thumbs around. It's not interactive, people don't like watching for extended periods of time, and it does nothing to inspire the non-gamer crowd to give it a try. But man, it's freaking Blu-Ray and stuff.
I've been poking around the net quite a bit today and every single thread, post, rumor, or whisper involving the PS3 inevitably mentions Blu-Ray, and vice-versa.
The PS3 is supposedly superior to every other system because it reads Blu-Ray. But why is that exactly? Because Blu-Ray can THEORETICALLY hold eleventy-trillion gigabytes of data? So then what stops game developers from simply releasing games on multiple, smaller format discs? Last I checked they've been doing that since CDs first became popular.
With Blu-Ray you can hold more movie content on a single disc than a standard DVD. Ok, but I honestly couldn't care less about watching 9 hours of Ben Affleck outakes on the Dare Devil BD special addition. Nor will my life change substantially if the disc makers were able to cram a Swahili dub version onto my BD copy of Condorman.
But what about picture quality? With Blu-Ray's available space you'll be able to see super-ultra-mega-ridiculous HD high quality. I'm going to be brutally honest here, high quality picture will not make a crappy movie into a good movie, ever. I'd rather watch an original VHS copy of Glory in its magnetic tape blurred goodness than an ultra-sharp Mila Jovich running helplessly around looking frantic and trying to be hardcore in UltraViolet. Honestly I can barely tell the difference between most HD feeds and SD feeds 90% of the time anyway.
And furthermore...oh wait, I forgot the other reasons why Blu-Ray has an awesome level rating of 12,000,000. Let's recap and see if I can get back on track:
Reason 1: A theoretical ton of space to do something.
Reason 2: ....
Most of you know that Kiwi and I purchased a Wii this last weekend, and I can honestly say that it's the first time I've been legimately "wowed" by something related to video games in a really long time. When we first got the Wii we were at Kiwi's parent's house, and something freaking amazing happened: her mother played a video game with us. Not only her mother; but her sisters, brother-in-laws, 2-year old daughter, husband, and father ALL sat down and played a video game together. Kiwi's mother is a long time anti-game fanatic. She thinks they're a waste of time, they rot kid's brains, and they kill people in Africa. But that night playing the Wii she actually sat in front of a video game and laughed while doing it (the game was Rayman Raving Rabbids, if you have the chance to play it I highly recommend it).
Purchasing a PS3 makes it game playing as usual. You sit with a controller in your hand move your thumbs around. It's not interactive, people don't like watching for extended periods of time, and it does nothing to inspire the non-gamer crowd to give it a try. But man, it's freaking Blu-Ray and stuff.