Collectors edition "The Waning of the Sixth Sun"

Does anyone know why on earth this is on a blu ray? I can't watch it because of this. The game install is a DVD (Not that I need it) and I've never owned a blu ray in my life until now because I just don't need them.

Reached my post limit so the final reply is here in an edit:

Mhhm, didn't quite explain the modern medium part well. Yes it's modern, but it's not the most popular. As for the LiteOn drive people kept showing, lol. They're shit and it's read only. The cheapest I found by a half decent brand was about £45 new. Additionally if I move formats, I will use writeable discs which is why I was looking at the media.

For those saying DVD quality is too low, well that's cool. I don't mind it really myself. I don't own a PS3 yet (I played XIII on 360) (I will sometime, there are a few exclusives I do want to play) and PS4 is beyond worth its price at launch considering I'll not use it all that much, as well as not being out yet. I even went and checked out my parents HDTV recorder/player thing, it's HD but has a DVD slot not a BD slot :(

The get with the times vibe is way off, for those airing it. I built my PC in November and it's close to the best that was available in every catagory (A 3770k overclock based build), I skipped a BD drive because I have not used it and didn't see any likely use for it for the extra £30 it'd add onto the price.

Anyway, You all made your points, civil or not, it'll be online sooner or later or I'll lend it to a friend to rip it for me.

Last question: Anyone who has watched it, is it worth my time bothering about, does it uncover a lot of lore?

Why did the soundtrack come on a CD? I can't use it because I can only use cassettes :(

Seriously, it is completely normal that a modern video be stored on a modern medium. I'm sorry you don't have a blu ray player, but you can't blame SE for that.

because.... Blu-Ray is the standard disc of the current era. DVD quality is too low for movies.

It's not a modern medium, it's still fighting with DVD. Additionally the INSTALL disc is a DVD. Why split formats?

I'm not blaming anyone, I'm just curious if anyone has an idea of why you'd bother putting it on bluray when a large amount of users will not have it. I went to Insomnia (A lan festival, well over 2000 PCs) the other day and I saw very very few Blu Ray drives.

They clearly understood this for install: It's a DVD.

The Cassette comparison isn't right, cassettes are no longer made (Not for releases anyway) DVDs are still made and used by the truckload.

Whoa.

It felt like 2008 for a second.

DVD is about to be defeated.

The reason why most of the PC games are on DVD because people still don't have blu-ray reader on their PC but in the movie case, people have blu-ray player more than just a DVD player.

PCs commonly have DVD players yes, that's why the install is on DVD. But it's also common in 2013 for blu ray players to be available. I've had one for nearly 7 years. It is likely (I haven't watched it) a decent length HD video requiring an HD format, and thus, Blu ray.

If you have PS3, you could just use blu-ray on it instead. That what i did anyway.

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Originally Posted by Kairgon

If you have PS3, you could just use blu-ray on it instead. That what i did anyway.

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PS3 might be too modern for them, it's only 7 years old. It's still battling PS2 you know?

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Originally Posted by Thalamant

PS3 might be too modern for them, it's only 7 years old. It's still battling PS2 you know?

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Hey, you know, I still use PS2 to play nowday too. Even PS1 =P

Just quickly looked around and aside the very dirt cheapest (And likely a crap one) the cheapest BD drive is looking at £45. With £37 for 50 discs. Great. The DVD is about to lose out thing doesn't fly, I bought my decent DVD-RW for £12 and 50 blank DVDs for about £15.

Guess I'll wait till its uploaded to the net by someone else. I haven't turned on the TV for 2 years, let alone considered buying a blu ray player for it.

Oh and before someone else tells me to get with the times, I will buy one when it's needed by more than a single product I own.

Thank you Thalamant for a civil reply.

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Originally Posted by Raeletta

It's not a modern medium

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i do not think modern medium means what you think it means

The main issue here is you think your PC needs to be the global standard for video consumption. I'm sorry for being sarcastic, but you're being unreasonable about a video that isn't necessarily intended to be watched solely on PC when it was more than likely designed to be viewed from the living room on an HD television with a blu ray player or PS3.

I watch movies on my PC all the time, so I can see why this might be frustrating for you. But you can't say that blu ray isn't a modern format when it is the newest thing available and old enough now that we may hear about its replacement soon enough. The reason blu ray is more expensive is because it is newer technology and in higher demand today than DVD players. DVD drives and disks are cheap because they are old tech now that is on its way out. That doesn't mean DVD will be gone completely any time soon, but you're going to start seeing less movies (because that's what this is) available on DVD and more on Blu ray.

Anymore movies are only sold on DVD when you don't want to pay the higher price point for a blu ray disc, or you don't have a player or HD TV to take advantage of it.

When I made my pc I used a toshiba ihos 4, it was about £20.... Blurays have been out since 2006. DVDs look so block on anything except old TVs. Don't be cheap you can't live on DVDs forever.

Why are you pricing blank discs? You don't need them. You don't need a RW drive altogether, actually.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/c...hos104-06.html

£27, you're welcome.

Edit: TonyUK beat me to it.

£27? You're getting ripped off....

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=56827

£20.99 (plus postage).

DVD can't really contain HD movies, a DL DVD runs at 8Gb (Xbox 360 uses DL) and a DL Blu-Ray can take 50Gb, see the difference? A DVD (Dual Layer) can't even play back 1 hours worth of HD video, the medium is too small, games however can easily fit on a DVD and if they can't it's no issue to use multiple DVD's to install the stuff to your hard drive. Back in the day you'd have multiple CD-Rom's (FFXI is on 4) as DVD's were expensive and not everyone had one, most people skipped Blu-Ray on PC's as there really isn't the need for that much of a storage medium so games stick to DVD's as there isn't the market for games on BR.

I tried to get this on console but I cant hook my NES to the internet to download it... so I guess Im stuck playing it on a jury-rigged toaster I use for a PC.

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Originally Posted by Raeletta

It's not a modern medium, it's still fighting with DVD. Additionally the INSTALL disc is a DVD. Why split formats?

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You're wrong about it not being the new modern medium. Blu-ray's are 100x's more scratch resistant than DVD's due to the hard coating tech they were designed with. All blu-ray's are this way! It was apart of the RFC/standard. They also hold way more data than a DVD. For these two reasons DVD's will go the way of cassette tapes soon.

Blu-ray and DVD were locked in a battle years ago. The industry is accepting blu-ray's to be superior and there's honestly no reason not to accept this. Almost everyone I know has a blu-ray player of some kind, even if it's a PS3.

My two gaming laptops came with blu-ray players built in....

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Originally Posted by Evangela

because.... Blu-Ray is the standard disc of the current era. DVD quality is too low for movies.

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Honestly, Blu-Ray will probably be outdated in a couple years too. This is the era of high speed internet, streaming, and non-physical media. And the prices of blu-ray players nowadays only exemplifies that sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Pandemonium

ITT: a lot of conceited pr*cks who, instead of offering advice to the OP, instead add insult to injury for the OP not being modern enough and having BLU-Ray coming out of his arse.

Face reality, BLU ray players are not as common as you are claiming. I only have one because of my PS3, if I didn't have a PS3 I would not have one because DVDs are still widely abundant and used almost everywhere, and do a perfectly good job of what they do.

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To be fair: The OP wasn't asking for advice. She asked "why on earth is this on blu-ray?" So I will try to answer that question. This content is on blu-ray because it was intended to be viewed in high definition. Standard DVDs are only capable of video output that maxes out at 480p, or standard definition. Past that, you have HD-DVDs (a discontinued format), Blu-Ray, or streaming/digital. Any content that is HD (720p or higher) has to be in one of these formats.

ITT: a lot of conceited pr*cks who, instead of offering advice to the OP, instead add insult to injury for the OP not being modern enough and having BLU-Ray coming out of his arse.

Face reality, BLU ray players are not as common as you are claiming. I only have one because of my PS3, if I didn't have a PS3 I would not have one because DVDs are still widely abundant and used almost everywhere, and do a perfectly good job of what they do.

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Originally Posted by Pandemonium

ITT: a lot of conceited pr*cks who, instead of offering advice to the OP, instead add insult to injury for the OP not being modern enough and having BLU-Ray coming out of his arse.

Face reality, BLU ray players are not as common as you are claiming. I only have one because of my PS3, if I didn't have a PS3 I would not have one because DVDs are still widely abundant and used almost everywhere, and do a perfectly good job of what they do.

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Right. But you do have a PS3, which means you do have a Blu-Ray player. As do many people. I expect the percentage of Final Fantasy fans with a PS3 is also probably higher than the normal person average. Obviously, it's not in every household, but it's a common medium that's been around long enough that I don't think SE was out of line for using it.

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Originally Posted by Raeletta

It's not a modern medium, it's still fighting with DVD.

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No, it's not.

Anyone who is serious about watching movies and cares even a little bit about quality uses bluray.

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Originally Posted by Emyle

Right. But you do have a PS3, which means you do have a Blu-Ray player. As do many people. I expect the percentage of Final Fantasy fans with a PS3 is also probably higher than the normal person average. Obviously, it's not in every household, but it's a common medium that's been around long enough that I don't think SE was out of line for using it.

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Yes, I do have a PS3, but I didn't buy it for the BLU-ray. I know plenty of "Xbox 360" fans, who don't have a PS3 and therefore don't have a BLU-Ray console, and would never dream of buying a BLU-Ray player, because once again DVD's are perfectly adequate.

So again, the point I was making is that it's still fairly common to be without a BLU-Ray player. I'm not saying SE was out of line for using it, I am saying that conceited idiots shouldn't be picking on the OP for not having one.

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Originally Posted by ExquisiteCorpse

No, it's not.

Anyone who is serious about watching movies and cares even a little bit about quality uses bluray.

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Totally subjective view. Plenty of people are perfectly happy with HDTV and DVDs, namely because DVD's are so much cheaper, and far more common.

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Originally Posted by Thalamant

PS3 might be too modern for them, it's only 7 years old. It's still battling PS2 you know?

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Clever.....

There is a issue here, people with DVD on the pc NEED to upgrade, DVD is only ok this gen, come November with the new ps and Xbox blu Ray is standard for games, you only have a few months