Don't Be A Genre Snob
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In a groundbreaking announcement, Adobe today announced that they will be supporting Blu-ray and will not support HD-DVD. Their latest installment of Adobe Premiere Elements V6 will be on the Blu-ray format exclusively further strengthening Sony's position with the BD.
Since Toshiba and Acer have both opted to have HD-DVD drives installed onto their Laptop's, this comes as an additional blow for them, if they were hoping to get the latest version of the movie editing software.
An Adobe spokesman told Pocket-lint that he wasn't sure why the next gen high-def format isn't supported in the company's software, however talking to industry insiders who wanted to remain anonymous, they believed that it was pressure from laptop maker Sony insisting that the rival format isn't supported in the software.
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Especially funny that Elements is the smaller/more simple version of Premiere. I'm guessing future Premiere endeavors will also be on Blu-Ray since they are even larger yet.
It doesn't say why it's being released on Blu-Ray but I'm guessing it takes up more than 9 gbs of space?
Though they seriously need to make the Blu-Ray sign on the boxpretty big, i know i would peeved if BD-ROM was just in the small print on the back and i only had a DVD player.
"i mean as it does on just like CD to DVD"
Unfortunately to shoot your comment to death, Adobe still uses large amounts of CD's in their bundles to all their sources, corporate, retail and student licensing. CS2 was 7 CD's.
Just because you bought the misconception that multiple discs = bane of existence it doesn't mean that it's actually accurate. Even if you did need 5 DVD9 discs do you realize how that invalidates the use of a single layer BD? You're still spending hours trying to transfer and uncompress data at that point of space consumption.
As for visual and high definition quality, they are pretty much the same.
FYI, the VHS was inferior to Sony's previous VHS rival (can't remember what it was called), yet VHS came out top, so I wouldn't count HD-DVD out for the count just yet.
The only company that supports HD-DVD that I really give a slight shit about is Paramount, and I believe even they are reconsidering what they have done. Michael Bay got heated when he heard Paramount made an exclusive deal with HD-DVD and even went as far as to threaten to cancel production for Transformers 2. Steven Spielberg doesn't want any of his movies on HD-DVD.
HD-DVD is incapable of that. If HD-DVD wants that much space it's going to have to support Blu-Ray, as Blu-Ray is the only disc in the world at this moment that contains so much disc space.
Supposedly in the future there will be a new kind of disc that can carry up to a whole terabyte of disc space, but hardly anybody will be able to afford that.
The max space they can get on the DVD9 is 9GB (hence the number 9 next to the DVD) and unable to create more space on the disc, they have to come up with an alternative source.
As for your DVD Player not supporting it, soon one of the two will become standard. It's sort of like before DVD Players became standard with PC's. You'd only have a CD player, and you'd have to get an external one. So if you upgrade in the coming future, be sure to get one WITH a Blu-Ray/HD-DVD, mind you either can lose the format war.
Kru Edit: Editing it out doesn't mean that you never posted it
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