Couple of things....
I've seen the odd bluray advert online recently. Great, go the condescending arrogant route. Brilliant.
*sigh*
At least the 360 '6x' dancers was clever, spelling out wow and all.
I got my first taste of bluray yesterday. A local store had a player. Being new zealand, this is a first.
Anyway. A few fun facts:
- It was a panasonic player, so could only be displayed on a panasonic TV. So 1080i (720 native) plasma. Sony, etc, do not allow mixing of brands on display.
- They had 1 title available to show off. Fantastic 4. No titles were available to purchase.
- The deinterlacing was terrible. Either that or something was badly wrong, the framerate was very inconsistent across the picture, suggesting some bad processing. Very jerky.
- The picture itself was sharp, but not quite what I expected. It was also very noisy.
- The UI front end for the movie was possibly the worst UI I've ever seen. Simply terrible. Slow, Badly scaled, ugly and confusing. The submenus were an utter joke. An amazing feat of condensed incompetence. I was amazed. Ohh sure it had a nice background video, but in terms of usability...
- The remote was possibly the worst remove I've ever used. Didn't even have an eject button...
- Top it off, it was $3000, and the only movie I've seen for sale was $80 online.
As an exercise in marketing, this is a total and utter disaster.
I'm hoping the HD-DVD crew are preparing for a decent launch here. Combined roll out of the 360 drive, etc. Pull it off and bluray will be dead in NZ.
I've seen the odd bluray advert online recently. Great, go the condescending arrogant route. Brilliant.
*sigh*
At least the 360 '6x' dancers was clever, spelling out wow and all.
I got my first taste of bluray yesterday. A local store had a player. Being new zealand, this is a first.
Anyway. A few fun facts:
- It was a panasonic player, so could only be displayed on a panasonic TV. So 1080i (720 native) plasma. Sony, etc, do not allow mixing of brands on display.
- They had 1 title available to show off. Fantastic 4. No titles were available to purchase.
- The deinterlacing was terrible. Either that or something was badly wrong, the framerate was very inconsistent across the picture, suggesting some bad processing. Very jerky.
- The picture itself was sharp, but not quite what I expected. It was also very noisy.
- The UI front end for the movie was possibly the worst UI I've ever seen. Simply terrible. Slow, Badly scaled, ugly and confusing. The submenus were an utter joke. An amazing feat of condensed incompetence. I was amazed. Ohh sure it had a nice background video, but in terms of usability...
- The remote was possibly the worst remove I've ever used. Didn't even have an eject button...
- Top it off, it was $3000, and the only movie I've seen for sale was $80 online.
As an exercise in marketing, this is a total and utter disaster.
I'm hoping the HD-DVD crew are preparing for a decent launch here. Combined roll out of the 360 drive, etc. Pull it off and bluray will be dead in NZ.
