Michael Bay Still Favours Blu-Ray
Filed under: Film News, High Definition, News | By: Lucy
Posted on: October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment
Now, after the phenomenal success that Michael Bay had with his HD-DVD release of Transformers you would think he’d be happy but apparently not. He’s re-voiced his preference for Blu-ray in a recent interview.
To be fair, Transformers was such a great movie that it would do well on either HD format. Michael Bay, talking about the format war has said,
“It’s short-sighted and it has delayed consumers’ moving to HD (home video). As a director, my critical eye is that Blu-ray is where my money is.”
Personally, I agree. The format was is a a bit of a mess. Surely, if he wants to get feedback on which format the consumers most prefer, he should be pushing for a dual-format release?
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Poor Mr Bay.
I guess he does not realize that Blu-ray is unfinished & does not even support picture in picture or mandatory web connectivity but oohhh aww 50 gb’s people thats alot of space.
Realistically , the dumb people will win this one cause there is no end to this war, Dual Players will bridge the gap before massive adoption of the technology takes place making a split market place for the first time between 2 major players.
Seriously people are keen to forget Betamax (vhs won) , the Sony Mini Disc (i still buy CD’s) & Sony’s AATRAC format (hello MP3 was already out why would people encode in AATRAC).
At least toshiba brought out DVD to the homes of Millions & probably one of the most beloved formats ever.
like i said , same size disc = dual players will bridge the gap & no format will win.
If smart people dictated this war, HD DVD would be the choice of movies since its Market Ready technology never needed to play catch up to blu Ray which has to come out with Blu Ray 1.1 to catch up to the features HD DVD already touts on All Players regardless of manufacture date.
Blue Ray’s capacity would serve only good for PC storage drives at this point , Depending on the Price people still might choose HD DVD for their optical storage but the space issues seem more apparent when we are talking PC drives so blu ray will always have the edge (yes i know HD DVD has a triple 51gb layer but lets be honest, its not out yet so it does not apply to this at the time of writing).