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The Blu-ray player will also connect but requires an add-on device.
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It offers Dolby high-definition audio, Microsoft’s IHD interactivity software and an easier connection to the Internet. HD-DVD makes its own claims to technological superiority. “We started off this year releasing the HD-DVD format prior to Blu-ray only because the format specs were further along. “I think to date we’ve been the most aggressive studio ,” says Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video, explaining that the roll-out of movies on Blu-ray has been slower because it’s a more complex technology. Players for both formats are backward-compatible (so they also play standard DVDs, and in some cases, CDs and CD-ROMs as well). All distributors are also putting the same pictures out on standard DVD. Universal is releasing exclusively on HD-DVD. Warner Bros., HBO and Paramount plan to release top titles like Mission: Impossible III and Superman Returns on both formats. Microsoft has been a driving force for HD-DVD behind the scenes, offering incentives to manufacturers and committing major marketing expenditures.īlu-ray has exclusive deals to put out movies from Sony, Disney, MGM, Fox and Lion’s Gate. The HD-DVD format is also supported by Intel and Microsoft, who plan to incorporate it into new computers, as well as the next-generation XBox console. HD-DVD machines are being made so far only by Toshiba, Thompson (RCA), which is also making Blu-ray players, and two Chinese companies, Amoi Electronics and Sichuan Changhong Electric, who cited the lower manufacturing cost and ease of adapting current DVD lines, compared to an entire new factory required for Blu-ray.
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Sony has enlisted many former VHS competitors including Panasonic, Philips, Mitsubishi, LG, Pioneer, Hitachi and Sharp, along with PC makers Apple, Dell, HP, TDK and others, who are incorporating Blu-ray into the next generation of computers. This time, Blu-ray is supported by a larger number of companies.” VHS was successful because it was supported by numerous electronic companies. They made a new one that was forward-thinking. didn’t try to modify an existing disc format. “VHS was successful because it had longer recording time. “I see some comparisons but I think the situation is reversed,” says Don Eklund, executive vice president of advanced technologies for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In the mid-1980s, Sony pulled the plug on Beta, making those machines and cassettes instantly obsolete. But that’s just the way it is.”īeta, first released by Sony in the late 1970s, was considered the superior imaging technology, but VHS, backed by JVC, Panasonic and others, was less expensive, more widely marketed and had a broader manufacturing base. I wish the manufacturers would have compromised one way or another, so we wouldn’t have to deal with this. “We were all privy to the VHS-Beta debacle in the early 1980s.
However, he doesn’t want to buy the wrong one. But the availability of Blu-ray machines and discs may be less than anticipated because of manufacturing difficulties.īowman, like many consumers, just wants the best available. By Christmas, Sony and others hope to offer at least some Blu-ray machines in high-end electronics stores. This past summer a second HD player made by Samsung went on sale starting at $1,000, based on a different format called Blu-ray. Since last spring there has been an HD player/recorder available from Toshiba starting at about $500 using the HD-DVD standard, an adaptation of the current DVD that provides a markedly improved image when projected on a high-definition screen. “In my family you’ve got two people who stay pretty close to what is happening out there and watch how it’s all evolving,” says Chuck Bowman.īowman wants one of the new HD players but feels stymied by incompatible formats.
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He often discusses the latest gear with his son Rob Bowman, director of The X-Files TV series and movie. “When you are looking at the quality of an image,” explains Bowman about his passion for the latest developments, “you want as true color as you can get, good contrast, brightness, all of that.” Currently, he has a 60-inch Sony LCD screen (made high-definition with a Sony add-on box), a Bose surround sound system, an all-in-one DVD recorder, player and DVR by TiVo and an XBox 360 video game player.
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Television director Chuck Bowman is a self-confessed “gadget freak.” The consumer electronics industry would refer to him as “an early adopter.” He is frequently among the first buyers of new high-end video and audio devices to upgrade the media room in his Pasadena, California home.