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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The Official name of what is commonly called Bluray Discs.
The full term is BD-ROM, and is accompanied by BD-R write once and BD-RW re-writeable disks, generally used for data backup.
Blu-ray, strictly speaking, refers to the core Blue-laser technology developed by Sony, not the disks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable |
So, If I buy a Sony PS Game machine, I can then go to my Inglis grocery store to the Red Box and rent a Blu Ray movie for 30 cents more than a DVD movie. Gee, if I had known that, I am sure I would have done it. I guess it is not too late. In fact I might have some PS consoles around somewhere. The boys used to use them to play games with. But I think I only have the first one still. Maybe the second? Will that one play Blu-Ray?
QUOTE - HansTWN
"Sony used to make such beautiful, functional, and innovative laptops. Then they started overloading them with "crapware" (little programs that they got paid to include) that slowed the computers to a crawl and instead of coming out with new designs they just copied the older ones and slightly upped the specs. The same happened for their other product lines. They lost their mojo and I can only see them going from bad to worse."
You probably are too young to remember the BetaMax. I had a brother in law that swore by them. They had better specs than the VHS machines, but eventually lost out to better marketing. He would carry his BetaMax player with him when he and my sister came to visit. We would go to an old local private video store that carried VHS and BetaMax titles. It was easier to get them where I lived at the time than where he lived. He enjoyed that. Then he would set up this assortment of equipment and cables and plug into my TV and we could watch BetaMax movies.
He does something similar now with his Apple equipment.
I had several Sony products. All expensive, excellent hardware, ahead of their time, and only affordable when heavily discounted or being closed out.