M$ and Apple against on Blu-ray

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No wonder there is no blu-ray on Apple.

Anyway... here the story on why they decide to keep DVD and prefer stream or download as their future format.

Slashdot Games Story | Xbox Head Proclaims Blu-ray Dead

Probably several reason why we shouldn't buy DVD/Blu-Ray because of bad environment. However, there is problem that not everybody have high-speed internet to bear our time to download.
 
Of course, big negative that we ain't see fricking closed caption if download or streaming any video. Probably less 10%. Bah!
 
no videos online via streaming have close caption.. however isn't it clear that ALL movies are suppose to have CC
 
Se7en Sinz said:
no videos online via streaming have close caption.. however isn't it clear that ALL movies are suppose to have CC
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hulu.com is streaming and do have closed caption, but not all of them. Both on tv show and movie
 
Well, Microsoft was heavily involved with HD-DVD due to their VC-1 codec being the video codec for the format. So of course, they would say that. Once Apple makes a decision, they will stick to it, no matter what. Although I do not agree with it because I believe the consumers should have the choice to view Blu-ray movies on their computers. Not to mention some people would like to author movies onto Blu-ray discs... which they can do if you install a Blu-ray drive.

Movies in HD through Netflix are usually somewhere from 2.5GB to 5GB depending on the runtime. A movie can go up to 50GB on Blu-ray. Here in Canada, we have a bandwidth cap, depends who you subscribe to. It could vary from 10GB to 100GB a month.
 
Banjo said:
Well, Microsoft was heavily involved with HD-DVD due to their VC-1 codec being the video codec for the format. So of course, they would say that. Once Apple makes a decision, they will stick to it, no matter what. Although I do not agree with it because I believe the consumers should have the choice to view Blu-ray movies on their computers. Not to mention some people would like to author movies onto Blu-ray discs... which they can do if you install a Blu-ray drive.

Movies in HD through Netflix are usually somewhere from 2.5GB to 5GB depending on the runtime. A movie can go up to 50GB on Blu-ray. Here in Canada, we have a bandwidth cap, depends who you subscribe to. It could vary from 10GB to 100GB a month.
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Yup and some ISP in USA start cap on bandwidth, but not under my ISP.

I don't support end of physical discs for games because some people don't have enough bandwidth to speed up the download, especially dial up and slower DSL, also some of them have bandwidth cap.
 
I prefer physical discs because of value if I ever wanted to sell it and get something different. Online media has no resale value and bandwidth is the issue if lot of people downloaded over the internet. It will result with internet congestion.
 
sequoias said:
I prefer physical discs because of value if I ever wanted to sell it and get something different. Online media has no resale value and bandwidth is the issue if lot of people downloaded over the internet. It will result with internet congestion.
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If PC games release in physical disc that include Steamworks so no way for people could sell their games to others.
 
sequoias said:
What is Steamworks?
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Steamworks is form of DRM that Valve offered and if you buy games in physical disc with Steamworks so you have activate it via online to input the code, once after activated, your game will appear on Steam.
 
Always another option to purchase external blu ray player for the computer? :aw:

And there is ways to get movies off the internet with CC :aw: (not going to explain here)
 
JClarke said:
Always another option to purchase external blu ray player for the computer? :aw:

And there is ways to get movies off the internet with CC :aw: (not going to explain here)
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That's goes only for PC, none available for Mac :)

I hope there is new law adopted on internet being required to have closed caption here in US.
 
PowerON said:
That's goes only for PC, none available for Mac :)

I hope there is new law adopted on internet being required to have closed caption here in US.
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You can use a Blu-ray drive on a Mac. However, you cannot play movies on it from what I know.
 
PowerON said:
That's goes only for PC, none available for Mac :)

I hope there is new law adopted on internet being required to have closed caption here in US.
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Yes, I hope Obama would sign up agreement for it soon before starting on January 2011.

But I can watch some Hollywood movies with subtitles online on my jailbroken iPhone anytimes.
 
Chevy57 said:
Yes, I hope Obama would sign up agreement for it soon before starting on January 2011.

But I can watch some Hollywood movies with subtitles online on my jailbroken iPhone anytimes.
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How?
 
Foxrac said:
How?
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Ha Ha I know that you have jailbroken iPhone. You can search "UnlimVideos" on Cydia and install it in your iPhone. I like to watch lots of movies with subtitles. I will explain how to set up it and look for movies with caption on i4iPhone forum on your PM.
 
Chevy57 said:
Ha Ha I know that you have jailbroken iPhone. You can search "UnlimVideos" on Cydia and install it in your iPhone. I like to watch lots of movies with subtitles. I will explain how to set up it and look for movies with caption on i4iPhone forum on your PM.
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I downloaded this app from Cydia but UnlimVideos won't load on my iPhone, just waiting with loading status for over 5 mins.
 
Foxrac said:
I downloaded this app from Cydia but UnlimVideos won't load on my iPhone, just waiting with loading status for over 5 mins.
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Yes I think that i4iphone system may be shutdown. I will wait to get it soon.
 
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