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Now THIS is my recording media of choice - Then again there's also Holographic disc. It'll launch with 300 Gig discs this year and grow to over a terabyte. Both HD DVD and Bluray are more suited to pre-recorded media ie for movies. But holographic will spank them both (including the...

Let's get some more Studios on HD DVD then - at least we know they;ll be top-notch! http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=684879

The BD problems being reported now are primarily with the software releases, not the Samsung player. The movies so far seem to contain shedloads of artifacting as a result of Mpeg on too small a disc. Also, over-filtering of the video to reduce the encoded video bandwidth seems to be...

They probably decided that folks might want to play CDs on it ;) It's possible they have decided to fix some obvious pre-issues like this before releasing for sale.

Why would one buy the BD player yet, when there's nothing but junk Mpeg2 releases with tons of artifacting to play on them? Get the HD DVD player now and enjoy HD optical a year early, as it will be a long time before BD prices and quality will match it... Samsung have also confirmed this...

Well what do you know - this thread would appear to confirm that BD production is NOT at the full 25 Gig Single Layer discs. The BD releases so far appear to be 21 Gigs... http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...d.php?t=236865

I think this is good evidence that they are using a smaller disc to avoid putting data on the outside edges of the disc and to help increase manufacturing yeilds. Just as was reported on AVS, in advance, it would seem....

Sony has now pushed the release date of their BD player to October on Sony Style... ouch

You missed the meaning of what I said. With HD DVD, you can use your existing DVD burner and burn a Dual layer DVD as an HD DVD 9 disc, which will play about 20 to 30 minutes of HD content on the Toshiba HD DVD player. But the Samsung cannot read a DVD burned as BD 9 format disc. This is a...

I found it interesting that the hardware review of the Samsung on AVS showed that it has the dreaded chroma bug. The reviewer seemed to feel it would manifest itself on hi def Mpeg2 material also...

But if I told you they hit 25,000 units 3 weeks ago you wouldn't believe me anyway ;) And if I said there was no point in buying the Samsung until better quality BD movies were the norm, I would only be stating the obvious, but it would still be my I-pinion. Based on the comparative...

Thanks for your opinion Andrew - it is noted. Some would rather that nothing negative ever be said about one format or another on the forum. But unfortunately, discussing the good and only the good (or sometimes only the hype) is not a very realistic way to determine the real situation. If...

The MPAA screen, unfortunately, doesn't point to anything. It is a still image and can be tuned to the maximum possible quality with zero effect on the overall space used on the disc by the movie encoding. Anything done to that MPAA screen is in isolation to the movie itself.

I hope that you will review your above statement objectively, periodically. I am not spreading false information - and you consistently attack posters rather than the information. Cheers.

That thread has plenty of commentary on the HD material playback as well, it would just have taken too much space to post everything. It all corroborates my statement that the Toshiba is a superior player to the Samsung.

Hmm.. nothing wrong with the thought per se, however, HD DVD has proven itself worthy of my $500. My wallet will remain patient for BD to fix their problems, tho.

Hi Chris - there are endless threads on this both here and on AVS. Check it out... What I posted above is fact. Sony (not Sony Pictures, as you keep thinking) has had to do the authoring and production for the initial BD releases of all studios. Sony's tools couldn't do VC1, which is why they...

NIls - your tone is always attacking and personal - please consider moderating it, along with your assertions of dishonesty. I have no problem answering your challenges, just try it without all the unecessary personal fluff. To each their own. This $500 has been a great investment which I'll...

In a way, yes, but not per se. The focus tolerances appear to be very small tho there may be other issues at play also.

No - all studios have had to depend on Sony to do the authoring and production for launch - as stated above. You're confusing this with Sony Pictures, I think.

2 thumbs up for the title! Do you work in the porn industry? :D (just kidding!)

I intended to buy both formats' players and play with them until hybrid players came along. However, the Bluray stuff has not been good - the player is twice the price and it doesn't do the advanced audio. But more importantly, the releases so far are not up to the level of HD DVD in terms of...

Why is it that some folks are trying so hard to make the obvious less so? By far the most obvious reason for the softness is that they have over-filtered and over-encoded the titles, due to a lack of space on the disc and having to use the older Mpeg2 encoder. In fact,this is being indicated...

Basically, Ryan, the protective "clear-coat" on bluray is causing some of the issues. It tends to "bunch up" on the outer edge of the discs, causing an optical "bulge" which F's up the laser focus. This is what has caused the issues with using the full 25 Gigs. Due to pressure to get to...

It won't be over in six months, so there's no point waiting too long. My opinion is that the sub $500 entry price for HD DVD and the fact that's it's a better players than the BD offering out there right now, makes it a no-brainer for me. I wouldn't buy the 1G BD players without advanced...

No, it's not the studios' fault - Sony has been the one doing all the authoring and production to date and the studios have been forced to work within what Sony was able to do. The tools Sony uses did not support VC1 authoring and production, so the studios weren't able to use it even if they...

Hi Crawaddy, Pretty much meant just as I said, which didn't address Mpeg2 on 50 Gig at all. But in response to you question, my opinion would be that Mpeg2 on 50 Gig would not be preferable to VC1 on 50 Gig. Even at the much higher bitrates used on studio master tapes, Mpeg2 still...

If these early BD releases can't be considered proof then I don't know what is... And as for the second part of your sentence... WHAT?? You've clearly missed out on a couple year's worth of posting. VC1 in the same space and bit-rate as an Mpeg2 encoding is universally acknowledged as...

Probably because they spend all their time on online forums making spin and not enough back in the development room making product. IMO, they'll have a long haul to dig out of this situation since, even when 2 G players start to ship next year, most of the BD titles on the shelves will still...

All good points, Dave. What they are saying now is that BD "will" be the greatest someday ;) But the key issue is that there is no reason to buy into the format at all right now. 1) The launch discs suffer from the problems noted (Mpeg2, single-layer, etc) 2) No advanced audio in the...