Another Blu-ray Vs HD DVD article, this time from TVPredictions.com with more focus on TV and movies plus Pirates Vs Matrix.
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You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
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The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
I dont think either will win, unless blu ray really starts to dominate which it hasn't done, Oh people can pull out selling 2:1 3:1 but in reality the sales are much closer then people want to believe, blu ray sales in total world wide being only like 10-20K over hd dvd most months.
And HD DVD players are still on average outselling blu ray stand alone players, And the only reason for the upshoot of blu ray media sales is because of the ps3.
I personally dont use my ps3 to play blu ray movies, Not when i have most of the movies i want on either hd dvd combo discs or plain old dvds.
I'm not gonna pay upwards of 30 dollars for a thing if not more when all it does is play in my ps3, Where as my hd dvd combo discs i dont even use the hd dvd side but i do use the dvd side.
When a hd dvd/blu ray combo player is released which i think there is one, but one thats cheap then ill buy that. Till then I have no real need for HD Movies, My tv only supports up to 1080i, and my sound system doesn't support all the fancy standards hd dvd and blu ray support, or hdmi for that matter. So High def movies are just an useless expendature for me right now.
Edit: if the hd dvd addon for the 360 goes down in price ALOT *wish i had picked it up at sams club when it was 76 bux* then ill buy that and ill start picking up high def movies, That way i can get the movies i want instead of having to pick and choose because of a stupid format war, but it will still be an useless expendature because my sound system still doesn't support hdmi, or any of the sound standards, and my tv still only supports 480i/p, 720p/ 1080i.
I agree..MS should reduce the price of the HD player and i'm sure a good number of units will be sold. Right now its something which is not a priority on a gamers' list but if the price becomes attractive enough many will jump in. And we all know when the HDDvds are selling more and more the price will likely to come down.
had bolth.... right now im missing my hddvd player
Sony probably will win because they are forcing people to buy Bluray in PS3. All the fanboys want to believe that Bluray is needed for games. No its not. (You do realize a 2x Bluray drive is not very fast, and increases load times for games.) 360 has been doing it for almost 2 years without Bluray. It is marketing propaganda and it makes Playstation fanboys eyes light up whenever the word Bluray even comes up, like a deer in the headlights bc there system has Bluray alien technology, and no other system does. The cell processor and Bluray were engineered at the same time, approximately 4 years ago. The primary purpose of the PS3 is to play Bluray movies, not to play games. If it was you would have a plentiful supply. What you do have a supply of is Bluray movies. Isn't it convenient that a Bluray movie came packed in with the PS3(Talledega Nights) and not a game. Sony could care less if they come in 3rd this console generation as long as Bluray beats HDDVD. I don't know why anyone can't see this.
Fanboys you have to ask yourself.....Self..Would I have went out and bought a Bluray player if I didn't want PS3 and the answer is "No".
Everybody brings up the argument that PS3 is a good value bc most Bluray players cost $700 to $1000 dollars. Why? Because Sony deliberately inflated the prices of standalone units to make the PS3 price point more attractive to consumers. The only reason PS3 is expensive is bc of Bluray.
The facts are that PS3 makes up 96% of total Blurayplayers sold. Only 4% are standalone units. And the only reason the movie industry is backing Bluray is bc of PS3. The only reason there is even a format war is bc of Sony. HD DVD would have won a long time ago if Sony wouldn't have pulled this dirty trick. HDDVD stand alone units outsell Blu ray units every month on a ratio of 4 to 1 and are half the price. The only reason why Sony sells Bluray movies at all is bc of PS3. I do own a PS3 but I will never buy a Blu ray movie bc of Sonys shady business tactics.
This is so wierd, why cant people understand that Blu-ray is going to win the war ? I dont mean ill to HD-DVD but thats the way it is, dont ya thik so ?