A long-time movie buff and collector of discs from laserdisc to DVD, Joshua Zyber is a veteran disc reviewer, and an enthusiastic supporter of all things High Definition. In his twice-monthly High-Def Digest column, Josh discusses a broad range of topics of interest to other early adopters.
In this article, Josh discusses the burdens of the HD DVD combo discs.
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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
VS
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!
OK THATS IT SAFARI SUX!I just spent 15 minutes writing that out....and it only posted the first line!!!
DAMIT!
Ok heres the jist of it, HD DVD combo discs aren't good because movie buffs aren't liable to use them *which is stupid, a movie buff wants the best and will see the versatility in the combo disc*
Regular users wont buy it cause they wont take advantage of the hd dvd side. * DUH No they will buy the dvd version of the movie, A combo disc is only for someone who plans on purchasing an hd dvd player in the future*
HD DVD users find it a rip off they have to pay extra for extra functions...WOW on average combo discs cost 2-5 dollars more then the blu ray version, And your paying for an dvd side that gives you extra functionality.
Let alone a combo disc is a good trojan horse plan, People will buy it because they think its a good deal, And its a versatile idea.
A dvd side that plays in any dvd drive, and an hddvd side, Portable players will play it, you can take it with you on a trip and if u cant find a hd dvd player your set, And if you can only find an sdtv you wanna use the dvd side because dvd quality looks better on sdtvs then hdtvs, The quality of the encoded video doesn't do good when u downgrade it to just an sdtv view.
The combo format is a great thing and thats a simple fact.
I didn't know HD-DVD combo discs had issues.
I should add one reason why many people don't like combo discs. I know a lot of people who don't like dual-sided DVDs because they are more difficult to handle (to some at least) and more prone to scratches and finger prints. I doubt most people actually care about pictures on other side of disc.
Of course higher price is the biggest reason why most don't like about them, especially because most buyers of HD DVDs don't use them on DVD players.
Relevance to games? This article is about movies, post this on News4movielovers.com not here!
I think that given the competition between the two formats the smart move for the HD-DVD to make would be to provide the dual disc at the same price as the regular DVD as this would truly make it a Trojan horse. If the consumer is on the fence he is not going to buy a disc that gives him DVD functionality as a bonus feature b/c he is paying for a format that is yet to be established. He will buy a DVD that gives him bonus functionality in HD-DVD playability accordingly he should be paying the regular DVD price. If then he has a large collection of DVD which can then also be played on then be played on the HD DVD machine he will have a heavy incentive to purchase same As this will certainly reduce the his sense that he will have to buy his collection all over again. So if you like that is my view of what HD-DVD is doing wrong. It may be expensive for them but so are the incentives paid to the studios.