Jim Williams asked:


We just bought a Blue ray HD DVD player for our HDTV. After we got it hooked up, which took a spell… I, for some reason or another just realized that I did not have any HD movies for me to see on it. Fortunate I already knew which one I sought to see firstly and that was Planet Earth.

So I got on the cyberspace and purchased it from an online outlet. The bad occurrence though is that I had to wait three days; nonetheless I did reserve myself around twenty dollars, so it was worth the wait. So it came with multiple disks with around three to four episodes of Planet Earth on each of the disks.

If you did not know already each episode of Planet Earth is one hour long. So once I put in Planet Earth to analyse on our HDTV I went to the listing of the premiere disk for the premier film. As you can ideate it was quite amazing how fine the picture looked.

All of the landscapes were rotund as can be in vividness and the animals looked as if they were graceful across the screen as they moved. I was impressed also on how well Planet Earth was filmed with a HDTV camera.

Some of the animals they picture in the movie looks as if they are right there close to them and the animals are not even being disturbed by them being around. It is really the most impressive movie of its type. One programme that really impressed me is the freshwater one.

In the kickoff of it, it shows Angel … the highest water descend in the world. Then it starts to break off from there and shows the rare animals that live in the freshwater environment. Another thing Planet Earth does is how well it shows the over view of the elevation.

Many shots are taken in high Earth altitudes while others are from space viewing the landscape and everything around it. The space shots are also one of my preferred things to look at.

Of course on our HDTV it looks as superior as it possibly can but it gives you a intuition of how bitty the World truly is but at the same minute when it talks about many of the environments it feels that the world is very gargantuan.

When you are watching Planet Earth you may get to an environment that they begin to speak about that just looks alien to you. Many of the things that are in the surroundings seem as if it was not proper and you can not even imagine about being in some of these places in real life.

One that truly shows what I am talking about is the caves instalment. Essentially what it shows you is the underground world of Earth. How things work under the surface and the uncanny little creatures that inhabit the caves.

It is truly something that will be hard for most people on the planet to conceive once they have seen any of the impressive animals that live on it. This infotainment is truly awesomel especially if viewed on a HDTV!

Web-architekt asked:


The high definition DVD war is over. The challenger has thrown in the towel and the victors arm is held aloft.

The announcement by Toshiba that its HD DVD format was to be abandoned has confirmed expectations that Sony’s more expensive BLUE ray solution would prevail.

The two rival systems have been battling for two years now, initially racing neck and neck. The rot set in when Warner Brothers backed Blu-ray and said it would only issue films in that format in future.

One by one other content providers and retailers have added their vote for the Sony option.

The final nail in the HD DVD coffin appears to have been Wal-Marts decision to phase it out of their stores, announced earlier this month.

One hey reason for Sony getting the edge has been its development of Blu-Ray in its own Playstation 3, which means it had many more drives installed and working that its rivals.

As it makes its way to the failed formats Museums, to line up along-side that most famous exhibit, Betamax, those who have harvested in their own HD DVD player are left high and dry.

The one million people who bought one in good faith will have good reason to be miffed. Although prices came down from an initial almost £500 to £150, even that is a lot of money to have tied up in a player for which very few DVDs will now arrive on the shelves.

The key question today concerns plans for HD DVD units sitting in warehouses and on retail shelves. Will they be written off, or will they be advertised as bargains as sold to unsuspecting buyers? It should be the former, for they became obsolete last week – 25 February 2008.

Michael Hehn asked:


The answer to any question regarding what is a Blu-ray disc is best given by describing it as being a futuristic optical disk that is poised to take over the home entertainment industry and more particularly is a worthy alternative to DVDS. In fact, the Blu-ray disc has really been developed by a number of international manufacturers of electronic items that have pooled their resources and formed what is known as the a Blu-ray Disc Association or BDA which includes big names such as Apple, Hitachi, Dell, JVC, HP as well as many others.

Five Times The Storage Capacity Of DVDs

Another feature that is sure to come to your notice when considering what is a Blu-ray disc is that it has as many as five times the storage capacity as is found in a DVD and a single Blu-ray disc can hold as much as fifty GB of data. The answer to what is a Blu-ray disc is also found in its primary use, which is of storing high-definition movies though it is also very useful in storing high volumes of data, and it also still does look much like any ordinary DVD disc does, which means that you won’t really notice any physical difference in the Blu-ray disc when comparing them to DVD discs.

Blu-ray discs are thus of the same size as DVDs and so any player that is capable of playing Blu-ray discs will also be able to play DVDs and also CDs. However, a difference between what is a Blu-ray disc and what DVDs and CDs are lies in the color of the laser used for Blu-rays which is blue as opposed to the red laser used in the case of DVDs and also CDs.

Most people, when they wish to know a lot more about what is a Blu-ray disc will also wonder as to what the benefits of using blue ray lasers are as compared to using red lasers, and for them the answer lies in the fact that blue lasers have shorter wavelengths, thereby providing greater accuracy as compared to red lasers which have a longer wavelength. This, in turn means that the answer to what is a Blu-ray disc, shows that with Blu-ray discs you get far greater precision when storing data and thus a Blu-ray disc of the same size as a DVD can store far greater amount of data.

Furthermore, having once learnt about what is a Blu-ray disc, you would immediately realize that this storage capacity of fifty GB of data on a single Blu-ray disc has opened up some serious new vistas in mass storage, which when combined with the fact that it is now possible to record HD DVD movies and audios better with a Blu-ray disc means that you are assured that it will serve the needs of a much greater number of people that have switched over to watching high-definition programs and who thus are ready to use the best recording media available today.