Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
HOW IS THE JAVA SCRIPT COMING ALONG IN BR ??? I REMEMBER IT NOT BEING READY WHEN SONY RUSHED TO GET BR OUT IN THE MARKET IN ORDER TO COMPETE WITH HD-DVD.
Just a correction here, it's not Javascript, it's Java. Don't get the two confused. Javascript actually has nothing to do with Java. Javascript is actually incredibly easy to code, whereas Java is not.
That's one of the things that I think will slow adoption of the Java portion of Blu-ray. The studios want easy to use software that lets them make menus of whatever complexity they desire. They don't want to have to hire programmers to make their menus though. Java will require some level of complexity that's more than just making menus.
Actually studios do care when the consumer cares. When DVDs first came out they many were still P&S, or if you were lucky 4x3 letterboxed. Today DVDs are almost all anormorphic widescreen (minues the GOUT of course). Studios are not friends-- they are direct competitors. I'm thrilled that the format war caused many good things... rapid player price drops, dumping of MPEG2, BOGO sales, etc. But just like DVD, when there is a lone HD format, studios will continue to innovate... at least to double dip from early adopters
HOW IS THE JAVA SCRIPT COMING ALONG IN BR ??? I REMEMBER IT NOT BEING READY WHEN SONY RUSHED TO GET BR OUT IN THE MARKET IN ORDER TO COMPETE WITH HD-DVD.
Just a correction here, it's not Javascript, it's Java. Don't get the two confused. Javascript actually has nothing to do with Java. Javascript is actually incredibly easy to code, whereas Java is not.
That's one of the things that I think will slow adoption of the Java portion of Blu-ray. The studios want easy to use software that lets them make menus of whatever complexity they desire. They don't want to have to hire programmers to make their menus though. Java will require some level of complexity that's more than just making menus.
Originally posted by: dumb_kid
I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?
I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?
Actually studios do care when the consumer cares. When DVDs first came out they many were still P&S, or if you were lucky 4x3 letterboxed. Today DVDs are almost all anormorphic widescreen (minues the GOUT of course). Studios are not friends-- they are direct competitors. I'm thrilled that the format war caused many good things... rapid player price drops, dumping of MPEG2, BOGO sales, etc. But just like DVD, when there is a lone HD format, studios will continue to innovate... at least to double dip from early adopters
Funny how I still see full screen releases of DVDs. In an age of widescreen tvs and DVD players that can automatically letterbox, full screen should've gone away a long time ago. You have no idea how many times I'm at someones house and they've got the full screen version of a movie because "Oh, I didn't even notice". Ugh! So when they watch it on their widescreen HDTV, the picture looks stretched and distorted instead of the way it should look. It is so annoying!