Blu-ray Disc not Blu-ray DVD

KTRIC

Can someone please tell me why oh why is Blu-ray Disc being refered to as Blu-Ray DVD here on the PS Forum???

Blu-Ray and DVD are completely different formats, surely when someone spends €630 on a console they should at least know what format the machine uses.

The general feeling I'm getting from new PS3 owners here is that they know nothing about their new console, yet still feel the need to tell everyone about how great the graphics are and how great the picture is from the Blu-Ray DVD !!!

I don't own any console at the moment but a little point I would like to get across to everyone that bought a PS3 is do your research before you try to preach to the masses and justify (to yourself) your expensive console.

McDermotX

I don't like it being referred to as DVD either,
but considering some shops refer to it as Blu-ray DVD when advertising, its hardly surprising that some less informed people will as well..
Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD are still a relatively niche market and will probably remain that way for a little while yet (although something like the PS3 will hopefully bring BD to the masses)..

Rev Hellfire

Ohh Noze ! Another pauper complaining about the cost, woe is you.

event

KTRIC wrote:

Can someone please tell me why oh why is Blu-ray Disc being refered to as Blu-Ray DVD here on the PS Forum???

Blu-Ray and DVD are completely different formats, surely when someone spends €630 on a console they should at least know what format the machine uses.

The general feeling I'm getting from new PS3 owners here is that they know nothing about their new console, yet still feel the need to tell everyone about how great the graphics are and how great the picture is from the Blu-Ray DVD !!!

I don't own any console at the moment but a little point I would like to get across to everyone that bought a PS3 is do your research before you try to preach to the masses and justify (to yourself) your expensive console.

so what?

are you really that concerned that people dont know the exact ins and outs of their console?

KTRIC

Rev Hellfire wrote:

Ohh Noze ! Another pauper complaining about the cost, woe is you.

I'm far from a pauper mate, I could easily go out and buy all 3 next gen consoles this evening if I wanted to.

Ciaran500

Rev Hellfire wrote:

Ohh Noze ! Another pauper complaining about the cost, woe is you.

No one complained about the price :rolleyes:

KTRIC

event wrote:

so what?

are you really that concerned that people dont know the exact ins and outs of their console?

When the same people will tell you how the PS3 is better than everything else and they don't even know anything about it , then yes.

Rev Hellfire

Ciaran500 wrote:

No one complained about the price :rolleyes:

If it pleases the court I'd like to show exhibit A.

KTRIC wrote:

you try to preach to the masses and justify (to yourself) your expensive console.

oneweb

KTRIC wrote:

I'm far from a pauper mate, I could easily go out and buy all 3 next gen consoles this evening if I wanted to.

Wow, what a man, I'm in awe :eek:

:rolleyes:

Ciaran500

LOL

You're not going to win this KTRIC.

KTRIC

Ciaran500 wrote:

LOL

You're not going to win this KTRIC.

I think you're right there Ciaran500. Nobody ever wins an argument with Sony fanboy's, they'll just drag you down to their level.

It's going to be hard to get them to admit they wasted €630 on a console.

mayto

KTRIC, the sony defence force has being recruiting heavily so you may as well give up, its the greatest invention since the wheel. I just havent noticed that with mine yet.

F-Stop

Objection! Stating that something is expensive, which in this case is true and no one in their right mind could deny it, is not the same as complaining about its cost. Your evidence will not be included in this case. You may sit down.

KTRIC

oneweb wrote:

Wow, what a man, I'm in awe :eek:

:rolleyes:

I really fail to see what that has to do with my point. I'm coming from an unbiased standpoint as I do not own any of the current gen consoles. I just stated that I could if I wanted buy one or all of them.

LookingFor

Oooh..the indignation! Rawwwr!

You should go into HMV! They have - wait for it - Blu-ray movies on shelves marked HD-DVD!! I hope you give those fanboys a piece of your mind!

(Honestly..this was really worth a thread?!)

Paulw

DVD = Digital Versatile Disc

So, is Blu-ray not digital? Is it not versatile? Is it not a disc??

So, calling it Blu-ray DVD isn't technically wrong at all. Of course, people should be calling it BD, but call it what you want, it's still good.

kmick

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and wiggles its tail feathers like a duck in most cases its a duck. In this case it is seagull. And we all know the seagulls follow the trawler. And the trawler is sinking fast and none of the men onboard can swim. However the do have a HD-DVD player on their liferaft and are looking forward to season three of 'Rescue Me'.

peepingtom

perhaps its just a slip of the tongue .... who gives a flying fook what people cal it ... people are so used to saying dvd now .... i think my parents still call dvd's tapes.

mr i could buy all 3

F-Stop

LookingFor wrote:

You should go into HMV! They have - wait for it - Blu-ray movies on shelves marked HD-DVD!! I hope you give those fanboys a piece of your mind!

Well if HMV can't get it right, then I guess it's OK. They do set the gold standard for intelligence after all. We should all be more like HMV.

evad_lhorg

in fairness who cares? it plays ps3 games. they come on bluray disc but who cares if someone says they are on bluray dvd. its a really nerdy type of problem

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

OK so it's not a DVD, but the term DVD is generally used to refer to DVD-Video by most people anyway. So in peoples heads a 'DVD' is a disk like a CD with video on it. Your not going to stop people calling it a DVD, cos maily most people don't care what it really is.

I agree with you point though Ktric

event

KTRIC wrote:

When the same people will tell you how the PS3 is better than everything else and they don't even know anything about it , then yes.

ignore them, dont actually pay heed to what people say on a message board.

KTRIC wrote:

I think you're right there Ciaran500. Nobody ever wins an argument with Sony fanboy's, they'll just drag you down to their level.

It's going to be hard to get them to admit they wasted €630 on a console.

im not a fan boy at all, dont have one myself

and BTW, nobody every wins and arguement with ANY fanboy

go to www.wiffy.ie and say that the wii is crap, they'll murder ya

KTRIC

event wrote:

go to www.wiffy.ie and say that the wii is crap, they'll murder ya

Waaaaaay ahead of ya

xanthor

Nevermind, for a minute there i thought somebody had come up with a NEW argument against the PS3.

Julez

Bulid a bridge KTRIC
Theres one thing I hate more than a fanboy and its someone who just hates a console, I mean you just made a pointless thread to try and say that ps3 owners are stupid basically. Who in there right mind cared what people call it?!
I love blue-rey dvd, thats why i have a ps3, looks so good on my old tv through scart.

Kevin2006

KTRIC wrote:

I think you're right there Ciaran500. Nobody ever wins an argument with Sony fanboy's, they'll just drag you down to their level.

It's going to be hard to get them to admit they wasted €630 on a console.

Wasted?! Its hard to even have an arguement with such a stupid comment. Your the one with the chip on your shoulder buddy.

justbringit89

oh yeah who sells the blu-ray dvds anyways

Cyrus

KTRIC wrote:

I think you're right there Ciaran500. Nobody ever wins an argument with Sony fanboy's, they'll just drag you down to their level.

It's going to be hard to get them to admit they wasted €630 on a console.

as ooposed to people who pay that for a gfx card for their pc ?

and anyone who has bought it hardly feels they have wasted the money

KTRIC

Kevin2006 wrote:

Wasted?! Its hard to even have an arguement with such a stupid comment. Your the one with the chip on your shoulder buddy.

Whats the chip I have on my shoulder then ?? enlighten me.

Burning Eclipse

I can't believe more people don't agree with KTRIC, not in terms of PS3 is overpriced, or the people who bought it don't know what they bought, but the name issue.

The early adopters; looking for, project mayhem and mcdermot, I don't recall any of ye ever saying bluray DVD. Ye call it bluray, because thats what it's called. And rightly so.

It might not seem like a big issue, but I can assure you it is in terms of the power of branding! You will never, mark my words, never hear Phil Harrison talk about PS3's Bluray DVD playing capabilities. (I just know someone will try prove me wrong) He will talk about it's Bluray movie playing.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but there is a lot in a name, if not to ye, certainly to Sony.

Rev Hellfire

To most normal people saying DVD is equivalent with saying movie, and saying blueray dvd gets the point across adequately to anyone who isn’t overly anally retentive about technology thats its one of those new fangled movies on those blueray discs.