What a silly comment. The HD-A2 was introduced with an MSRP of $499 and it's being manufactured by a teir 1 brand. When the HD-A2 was being sold at $99, the MSRP was still $249. The $99 price was a deep discount 'Black Friday' sale on limited stock to clear their inventory.
OMG! They are giving blur-ray players away for FREE with HDTVs. DESPERATION!
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This isn't how I feel at all because business is business and all is fair but thought this was a good opportunity to illustrate how ridiculous this sounds to people that are pro HD DVD whenever we hear the oft repeated 'desperation' and 'HD DUD' coined phrases that are thrown around this site endlessly.
Sounds silly and immature to hear the above phrase doesn't it?
Apparently, every HD DVD player will be able to play the TL51 discs according to Jim Armour of Toshiba's Optical Storage Division.
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/dvd...
The thought that 1st gen players couldn't play the 3 layer discs was based on the interview that was given by Jim on whether the 1st gen players would read 45Gb discs but obviously they must have figured it out.
Good deal, basically a BOGO sale with $20 Sony titles since you have to buy 2 to get the deal. Still, I ordered Layer Cake and the Pursuit of Happiness bringing my HD collection up to 11 Blu-rays and 88 HD DVDs!
These are likely sales meant to clear the profile 1.0 stock in preperation for the profile 1.1 players coming in the new year.
Lawman, there are better ways to make your point. This kind of behaviour only propagates and truly makes it more difficult for others to make the same point. Yesterday I got into a discussion in which I ended up calling another a 'droid' which I truly regret. (PS3PCFTW, I apologise if you see this)
1080i60 and 1080p60 signals are both capable of carrying a 1080p24 source without loss. 1080p60 just repeats data. Actually 1080i60 also repeats some data but not as frequently as...
Here we go again.
1. 1080i60 and 1080p60 signals are both capable of carrying a 1080p24 source without loss. 1080p60 just repeats data. Actually 1080i60 also repeats some data but not as frequently as 1080p60. If there is a degradation, it is due to the television having a poor/cheap de-interlacer built into it not because there is missing data in the 1080i60 datastream.
http://blog...
Actually, Blu-ray is the only disc that uses the old Dolby Digital CODEC as it's primary audio track. 123 titles or about 30% of all Blu-ray releases are Dolby Digital. You are correct that the majority of them are from Warner. HD DVD has not used the Dolby Digital CODEC on a single release as it's primary audio. Dolby Digital Plus is used on 86% of releases and Dolby Digital TrueHD is used on about 20% of releases and both represent the latest techniques in audio compression.
I think you are confusing the section on lossy compression with lossless compression. The whole point of lossless compression is being 'lossless' in other words identical to the original sample. As he points out in the article, the Linear PCM track or Lossless track could still be a downsampled 16 bit version of the master audio for various reasons from disc space issues to the Master not being a high enough quality to begin with as is the case in many older movies. Joshua Zyber is an exce...
Look at it this way DeadIIIRed, The BDA has announced that there are 2.7M players in the US, and there have been 3.01M Blu-ray disc sales since inception in the US. That is pretty much 1:1. Attach rate is what really matters because it is a measure of the repeatability. It means that someone is going back to buy more discs ie it is perpetuating. Blu-ray has not achieved this. In fact, we all know that the people that are buying Blu-ray discs are likely buying more than ONE disc but the a...
You do realize that Bloodmask didn't write the article right? He didn't even FIND the article, it was tipped by cdzie1. Maybe if you actually read these articles instead of just the title, you would realize this instead of shooting off your uninformed mouth on every single next gen format post.
Black Friday sales actually refer to the US market, not the North American market. 5M discs have sold in the US market as of October this year, 3.01M Blu-ray to 1.97M HD DVD. In Euro...
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The typical rebuttal on this site.
How many times are we going to link to the same article?
http://www.n4g.com/industry...
An interesting read, he makes some good points and does a decent job of giving HD DVD a fair handshake but in the end ignored/needs fact checks on some items which should shift the article's direction.
WB has consistently put more support behind HD-DVD than Blu-Ray, to date there are 24 titles only available on HD DVD from Warner, titles such as Batman Begins, V for Vendetta, Constantine and the Matrix trilogy. A clear indicator on it's own.
Blu-ray discs are mo...
1. I doubt it will affect the sales of the 360 since the HD DVD add-on appears to be an after thought for most people and if they are looking for a dual format drive then they will simply buy it instead of the HD DVD add-on. It is possible it could affect the sales of the PS3 due to it's inability to play HD DVD discs combined with the higher price relative to 360 associated with the inclusion of Blu-ray. Howard Stringer did mention in his famous 'stalemate' interview that replacing the Blu...
And here is how Blu-ray's advantage, the PS3, is also it's disadvantage. The vast majority of Blu-ray buyers are gamers and they don't seem to care about special features or even older releases. They care about the latest-greatest blockbusters and that's about it and while releases like '300' outsell HD DVD 2:1 on Blu-ray, other releases such as 'Planet Earth' actually have HD DVD outselling Blu-ray by a small margin despite the overwhelming install base. This is a loud message.
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Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
It's only a matter of time before combo players are affordable. Blu-ray standalones were over double the price they are now only a year ago which is more expensive than the latest Samsung combo unit and it's profile 1.1 to boot. By next Christmas I wouldn't be surprised if combo units were under $400.
This 'conspiracy' theory is hogwash.
1. The present internet backbone is VASTLY bottlenecked on the bandwidth that would be required for HD downloads on any type of scale. Transformers sold 8.5M discs in it's first week alone just in the US. Does anybody really believe that the internet is capable of handling 8.5 MILLION 30Gb transfers? EVERY service provider on the internet would crash under this traffic and it is only ONE TITLE during ONE WEEK. Besides, how much of the w...
What's funny is listening to a bunch of gamers actually calling others nerds! I'm sorry but there are a LOT more movie watchers in the world than there are gamers and I can guarantee that most of them raise their eyebrows and start to giggle everytime they hear 'gaming nerds' talking about 'plasmids and big daddies' or 'Snake in his Octocamo suit dueling foes Crying Wolf, Raging Raven, Screaming Mantis, and Laughing Octopus'.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a gamer and I understand th...
With 20/20 vision, the human eye can discern 1/120th of a degree of arc at 10 feet. Using basic geometry, this means that the human eye is capable of discerning a 0.034" x 0.034" pixel at 10 feet. If the pixels were any smaller, you would not be able to discern any extra usable visual information from them due to the limitations of the human eye.
At 10 feet viewing distance, pixels can be as large as 0.034" x 0.034" before human vision can detect individua...