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DavidJ, do us the honor and compare the two side-by-side when the new disc comes out. Have someone switch between them without your knowledge of which is which and report back what you see/hear. It's not 100% double-blind, but what I usually do if I have both lossless and lossy on the same...

Yes. A blu-ray insider (a trusted source with good reliability) has confirmed that it's real and in the pipeline. He also confirmed that the high-bit-rate AVC video encode is superior to that used for the HD DVD. It will be interesting to see if anyone can see a difference on a revealing 1080p...

I'm with you Jeremy. Lots of us with golden ears love movies too. :D I see nothing wrong with enjoying the audio-transparency of Blu-ray before upgrading your video chain. When you finally get full 5.1/7.1 lossless, you won't believe your ears. It's incredible, and it's like "lifting the...

EDIT... my bad... crossed posts. I think that the BD50 is supposed to come out early/mid-summer but I'm not sure. Anyone have any good info? I know that Sony is waiting to give the BD50 a few months on the market before bringing the 2.0 profile and DTS-HD MA decoding firmware updates to the PS3.

Jeremy, the Panny BD50 is on the way. It won't hit the $200 price point :frowning: but it will provide a full featureset along with internal decoding of all advanced audio, bitstreaming over HDMI 1.3, and 7.1 analog outputs. Not bad. I'd expect it to be around $400 by this holiday season...

Toshiba : Press Releases 19 February, 2008 It seems an appropraite time to resurrect this thread. Industry sources are telling us that after the Warner announcement, that Toshiba did indeed make an internal decision to close shop with HD DVD, but was looking to find the most graceful exit...

Regarding audio yes we do. The HD DVD spec ONLY requires internal advanced audio decoding for advanced Dolby (plus and TrueHD), *not* DTS-HD MA. And the spec doesn't mandate bit-streaming over HDMI 1.3 of the raw signal... that's optional. In fact, the HD DVD spec doesn't even require full 5.1...

Buying the extended cut of LOTR on a 50GB disc with enough bandwidth to deliver transparent high-bit-rate video, PIP, and 24-bit lossless sound will also make hi-def fun. :D

Man, it's so refreshing to read this thread and see how resonant we all are on this perspective. :emoji_thumbsup: Agreed. Sony's quick and thorough "about face" with their disc mastering would NEVER have happend so quickly or so effectively if HD DVD hadn't been there to shine a big...

:emoji_thumbsup: While I've been a strong supporter for Blu-ray since the inception of the "war", I haven't been blind to the positives of the format war; It's no secret that the BD format as it stands today has Toshiba and HD DVD, in large part, to thank for helping it become a format worth...