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Current Blu-ray players won't play extras in future BD titles |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: gaming accessories, Sony
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Blu-ray's certainly making a name for itself on the headlines, mostly with good news all around. There is one bit of news, however, that puts a damper on these proceedings, and it's got something to do with one of shortcomings of Blu-ray at present: future compatibility.Future compatibility, in this case, refers to the Blu-ray disc player's ability to play future Blu-ray discs. The big problem right now, it seems, is that current standalone players lack future compatibility, and thus, the ability to play the additional features that come with certain titles.
How does this work? Well, imagine you have a BD player which supports Profile 1.0. Your player might be able to play the movie that comes with the Profile 1.1 or 2.0 Blu-ray disc, but it won't be able to access the special features that come with it, such as internet connectivity (present in the upcoming Profile 2.0).
To that end, the Blu-ray Disc Association has decided to place stickers on upcoming releases, signifying whether they have additional content accessible with a Profile 1.1 player using the "Bonus View" sticker or Profile 2.0 capability with the "BD Live" sticker.
There is one side-effect of this though. It seems that there's at least one Blu-ray player out there that is constantly being updated with future compatibility, and also happens to be cheaper than most Blu-ray players. That's right: Sony's PS3 is the in-thing when it comes to compatibility at the moment, which may mean that Blu-ray fans might just buy a PS3 for its ability to play all sorts of content.
We're hoping the different Blu-ray player manufacturers find a way to settle this problem among early adopters of Blu-ray though, because it's certainly going to be an annoyance for the common consumer who wants his money's worth if he can't get everything that he was hoping for in his purchase.
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i have a ps3 that sony keeps upgrading software for. :)
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Just wait a few weeks and look f the system is really stable or future-proof.
If you bought it directly from the start, you have a buggy, overpriced system with less features.
Now today Blu-Ray players are more stable, cheaper and have Blu-Ray profile 2.0
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Nor will HD DVD play future discs at all
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If, as an early adopter, you bought one of the early BD players, you may not have the required hardware available to get up to 1GB of storage or internet. While, yes, it is conceivable for a firmware update to add codecs or PiP features, it can't magically make an ethernet port appear on the back.
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Besides, the old Blu-Ray players aren't 'incompatible' as in 'can't play new movies', just crippled by a few new features. They'll still play the movies that come long after HD-DVD has gone the BetaMax route.
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whats the point?? everthing in life is like that.. technology evolves.. and you get stuf with out of date producs... so ..whats the issue?
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Firstly, don't this all so seriously, I put the smiley there for a reason. :)
However, there IS logic behind my comments.
MS are not going to replace the DVD drive in the 360 with a SLOWER Blu-ray or HD-DVD drive. That's right, slower. The fastest HD-DVD drives read DL DVDs at half the speed of the DVD drive in the 360, and Blu-ray is similar in terms of DVD performance. The current HD-DVD drive for the 360 is even slower (which doesn't matter because it's ONLY for movies, not games).
You will only find better performance from hybrid drives (which include laser heads for each type), but MS are certainly not going to be including the more expensive hydrid drives in the 360 when ALL the games will be released on DVD only! (It's a games console first).
So until a non-hydrid HD-DVD or Blu-ray drive is available which matches the 360's current 12x dual layer DVD performance at an acceptable price, then the 360 will continue to have an internal DVD drive with HD-DVD (and perhaps Blu-ray later) as an add-on.
Is that clearer now? :)
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"Firstly, don't TAKE this all so seriously, I put the smiley there for a reason. :)"
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if it can be done for the ps3 it should be easy enough to implement an update for standalones, afterall these standalone players are just pc's in dvd clothing!!!
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