The not so bright people out there had expected bluray disc and bluray player sales to skyrocket once the format war was done, but it didn’t. And it seemed that more and more picture and motion companies are joining the Bluray wagon, trying to spur more and more people go Blu. Comparatively speaking, it takes much shorter time to transition from DVD to Bluray than VHS to DVD does, much negativity must be covered. Think about iPhone 4 plunged into “Antennagate” and the aborted Window Vista, you will get it.
High definition video, I believe, is in line with most consumers’ need. Bluray, however does not make the best of it. High Definition, large capacity is great, but that is mot all. Hare are the seven deadly sins Blu ray (including bluray disc and bluray player) had committed.
The first sin Blu-ray committed is greed.
Bluray is more expensive
Sony had won the format war and thus tries to charge people between 50 and 100% more for a product with marginally better quality
Consequently, Bluray things, especially Bluray Player, cost much more than its competitors. It doesn’t matter, people boasting Play Station 3 would say, since PS3 can play Bluray disc. Then what about those without a PS3? To play the Blu ray disc, you have to spend 5 to 10 times more money on a Bluray player, which sounds like to you got to buy a Ferrari to listen to a car stereo.
The second sin is over cautiousness which produces inconvenience to bluray owners
Region Code + DRM
To protect from piracy, Blu-ray employed both region coding as well as DRM (digital rights management). The Blu-ray Disc region coding scheme divides the world into 3 regions, labeled A, B, and C.
Region A includes most North, Central and South American and Southeast Asian countries plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
Region B includes most European, African and southwest Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand.
Region C contains the remaining central and south Asian countries, as well as China and Russia.
Region coding makes it such that movies bought from a region A (eg. USA) cannot be play on a player that is bought in region B (eg. Europe). As for DRM Once you want to make a copy of the protected disc, problems posed and try to stop you to do that. Users making copy of the Bluray Disc for backup makes sense, but DRM is a big trouble.
The third sin of Bluray is fragility.
Data stored very close to surface of disc.
Data in the Blu-ray disc is stored very close to the surface of the disc (0.1mm) as compared to DVDs and HD DVDs (0.6mm). Scratches of more than 0.1mm will possibly damage all data stored under the scratch marks. However, various companies have come up with their own method of hard-coating the surface to make it scratch proof.
Then what about Netflix customers, scratches are almost inevitable in shipping, the only way to avoid this is to spend more money on the wrapping. Or they might not be able to watch the Bluray movie with a hairlike crack, wasting shipping fee.
One famous feature that Bluray is proud of is the high storage capacity of 25 Gb per layer. This means large number of data can be stored onto the disc. The accompanying trouble for Bluray disk owner is how to make sure it is absolutely safe. Frustration does not help at all once the whole movie or the entire data lost accidentally due to the fragileness or carelessness. To protect data on the costly Bluray, hard coat is not enough. The best way to make sure data is safe is to backup it on your computer or anywhere else. You’d better believe in BACKUP rather than Bluray.
In attempting to circumvent region coding restrictions, stand-alone Blu-ray Disc players are sometimes modified by third parties to allow for playback of Blu-ray Discs (and DVDs) with any region code. That is not enough, it might makes Bluray disc of different region coding can be played on one player, and it does not do away with the data safety trouble caused by the fragileness. Well the solution is the same, make a backup. There are Bluray Rippers of various brands that are able to handle the region code as well as the DRM problem and backup it onto your computer. Once the data is copied to your computer you are free to enjoy it without restrictions.
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