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Huh. I didn't even knew HD-DVDs were a thing. It seems it's defunct now though. I imagine Blu-Rays were possibly a bit better than HD-DVDs. I did knew the Xbox 360 could play DVDs, though I recall it only being compatible with regular, normal DVDs. I know what Blu-Ray is, but I've never heard of HD-DVDs before. So that's interesting I imagine HD-DVDs quite failed
The pen I used to write my diary has ran out of ink. I thought had nothing to write with, but then I saw a dip pen I bought in Italy around 3 years ago. To my surprise, the ink was still good, so decided to try and write with it. It was almost like riding a bike. I felt just as competent at using it as I was when I stopped.
Makes me think about how pens are just made to be disposable nowadays. In ways, it’s kind of like the printer industry. I might write (Heh) an article on it.
Yeah, the external drives because the console itself couldn’t play HD-DVDs.HD-DVDs haven’t been in production for like 15 years now. When they first came out, I think they did pretty well, but over time, Blu-Ray took over and became the dominant format.
And, Italy.. Never been there before, but I would love to
Speaking of the printer industry, I wish printer inks wasn't that expensive.
Apparently it says HD-DVD came out in 2006, and got discontinued in 2008. Wow. It barely lasted two years Yeah. Kinda tells me Blu-ray is better than HD-DVD.
I’m half-Italian, and we go to Italy all the time to visit family. Love the place! Would love to live there one day, but I struggle to live independently even here in Scotland! Would need to find a job that allows me to live anywhere in the world before I even consider it for real.
Ink carts are exactly what’s wrong with that industry. They are overpriced to high hell (if I recall correctly they only cost like 50c to make!) and the fact you can’t refill them yourself, you need to throw away an entire cartridge and get new ones not only cost you, but I don’t think it’s doing the environment any favours.Luckily, the next printer we plan to get has refillable cartridges available, so we plan to get that and just buy ink for it. (Could possibly also work for my pen!)
Huh, I could have sworn it was longer than that. Guess the mid-2000s was the last time where years felt longer!Blu-Rays did hold more space, at 50GB (vs 30GB on HD-DVD and 20GB on HD-VMD), and were made better in general. HD-DVDs were more prone to laser rot (especially WB releases!).I’m glad Blu-Ray won out because of that, but HD-DVD is an interesting curiosity nowadays for me.There’s a small community for them to this day, some even figuring out how to make homebrew/bootlegs using dual layered DVDs! Will be fun playing around with that!
So, basically half Scottish, and half Italian, right? Also, it says Scotland has two languages..? Scots, and Scottish Gaelic?
Blu-Rays are really high quality, and I also like how the discs are usually blue
Now let's see, do I have anything interesting to share.. As of now, nah I have these pics from Jan. 4th if that's interesting (Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)
Correct on both counts.I speak Scots natively. Scots is a Germanic language and is English’s closest relative. They’re both very similar.Gaelic, on the other hand, is Celtic, and is similar to Irish and to a lesser degree Welsh. I studied Gaelic in college, but sadly don’t get to use it much.
They’re actually called Blu-Ray because the laser used to read them is blue, as that makes it narrower, allowing more data to be fit onto a disc.Ironically, HD-DVD also did this.So they’re both HD DVDs and used blue rays. HD-VMD took a different approach and basically took DVD and gave it more layers. Those could only hold up to 15GB, and according to accounts by people who have used them, they weren’t even able to fully utilise that!
Were you taking pictures of anything in particular here?
Is Scots easy to learn? What would an example of Scottish Gaelic look like? And, since you're half-Italian, do you know the Italian language that well? Just curious to know!
Ahhh, so the discs are blue because of the laser. Interesting So, they were really trying to compete with Blu-Rays back then, eh? And by the looks of it, they pretty much lost Heh, so HD-VMDs was.. worse than HD-DVDs, I'm guessing
Yes, the sky! I do find enjoyment from taking photos of nature, like the sky
Hard for me to say since I know it natively, but I imagine it’s pretty easy if you can find the resources. I run a Discord server for the language and attempt to promote the language as well as gather resources for learners, provide foreigners a space to practice the language without judgement, and help out with the Scots Wikipedia.Here’s a sample of English, Scots and Gaelic. As well as Italian, because I do also speak that.English - Are you going to the shop?Scots - Is that ye awa tae the shops?Gaelic - A bheil thu a' dhol dhan bùth?Italian - Stai andando al negozio?
I think they just look blue because of the name, rather than the other way around. That’s just an aesthetic choice.I remember the format war when it happened, it felt pretty close at first, but eventually HD-DVD was left in the dust. I still remember hearing it in the news the day HD-DVD discontinued the day it happened. Most videos I watched on the format’s history mention how “People didn’t care by 2008 because streaming was becoming a thing”, which I don’t remember at all. Yes streaming was becoming a thing, but what people were thinking was more “Why should I bother with either? DVD looks good enough for me!”
Here are Techmoan’s videos on HD-VMD:
Interestingly, you can make any DVD drive play HD-VMDs with some custom firmware, which I’d love to be able to do and maybe get a couple of films on that format one day!
Tbh, the whole format war sounds really pointless It makes me wonder: "And what was the point of trying to be better than Blu-Ray?"
HD-DVD was devised before Blu-ray, and with no influence from that format, so being better than them wasn’t their goal because up until near launch they never even knew about it.I think they tried to compete anyway because they already put money into this project, they might as well go for it. Kinda glad it did. I love seeing competition and different formats being released.
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