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In terms of all aspects of visual experience with DVDs, HD DVDs and BluRay DVDs. How does a PC (assume suitable hardware is in place) connected via DVI, compare to a dedicated stand-alone HD/BluRay player connected via HDMI? I.e. Is one noticeably clearer?
What i am trying to work out is whether i should bother buying a BluRay/HD compatible optical drive for my PC or not. After all why bother paying the extra if via a DVI PC connection the quality is the same as standard DVD.
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I would leave it untill Blu-Ray does become the defacto standard. DVDs are still working away and there are many technologies that could supercede Blu-Ray by the time it's up and working as the standard to have.
Personally, unless you had a reason to burn a Blu-Ray (backup purposes) I would stay with DVD. If I was planning on buying a Blu-Ray player, I'd be looking at a PS3 which can become a PVR in September due to a new addon soon to be released.
If you need it now though, it's worth it for you.
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I think that all disk based media is effectively a dead end at the moment.
Blu-ray is too late, too expensive, too complex, too DRM, etc.
It will never supercede DVD, Flash rom will.
with 2Gb pendrives @ 99p+vat and dropping, how long before BR is history?
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Thanks, never had a gift for advice 
It is interesting to see what will happen. The UK doesn't have the Internet connections that will allow the all on demand access yet, but eventually it will come a point when physical media will no longer be necessary. It's not soon though, so Blu-Ray will take over.
After that, who knows. I do appreciate the extra that Blu-Ray movies adds into a movie, and while I won't be rebuying my DVDs in HD format, I would like to eventually move over to it.
Biggest problem with Flash media is that it has a maximum number of read/writes. While the numbers are huge, what happens when your favorite film no longer plays off that memory stick?
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WOW, finite life movies, sounds custom made for the 'entertainment industry' and better suited to the US business model. 
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Biggest problem with Flash media is that it has a maximum number of read/writes. While the numbers are huge, what happens when your favorite film no longer plays off that memory stick?
The number of writes is the limiting factor in most application of flash memory, the number of reads is much greater and generally negligible.
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Reads are infinite effectively,
Only writes are limited, in the same way that DVDRW is limited.
There is more likelihood of your fragile BR media being scratched, or becoming unplayable due to dye migration etc.
Read only flash media is virtually invulnerable ( unless you tread on one) 
But then that may be a reason to discount it, the studios want you to keep buying it.
Disk media is more susceptible to damage and wear.
( I use Lovefilm, and more and more of the DVDs are scratched and unreliable).
I think that BR will be slow to replace DVD, and something better will come along before it is ensconced.
EDIT: in fact, how many DVDs in your collection have you watched more than once? and how many times? 3, 4?
That is why I have generally stopped buying them, I rent them. 2 a month for a fiver is plenty for me.
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