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I liked both as well and as noted, Red Planet has an excellent soundtrack.

It don't care how much money people want to spend. As you say, that is their choice. What I discussed is them saying why. The why from them said that there was true increase in resolution of a 1080p image when shown on a 4K projector. I showed that as a matter of math and science, that can't...

Well, the data is the data :). Here is the reason Sony is doing what it is doing. The images on a 4K projector sourced form 2K without sharpening may actually appear to be *softer* than a 1080p projector! Let me repeat. Subjectively a 4K projector may soften the image, let alone preserve or...

No kidding. When the Sony 4K projector came out, I must have spent a month non-stop trying to convince people "there is no there there." Even long time members who practically live on the forum were swearing that "4K projector is bring out the resolution that is hidden in Blu-ray for the first...

There are a couple of reasons for that. One, high volume sites use what is called "smart streaming." This is technology where the video is encoded at multiple bitrates and the player smartly decides which one to stream based on your bandwidth. This reduces up front buffering time and keeps...

I think it was mentioned earlier but just in case, I do not see the prospects of 4K material for mass market distribution anytime soon. The only "hope" is for early window release and there, it might have copy protection requirements that these projectors do not have. For 1080p content, unless...

They have a whole conference dedicated to second screen now? Boy, folks jump on anything to monetize it.....

On interactivity, the reception these days to it in Hollywood is decidedly cool. There seems to be no interest in having it with Internet formats. When I ask why, they point to very high development costs relative to consumer value. I still remember the original meeting with Disney folks when...

Another cool guy to have is Alex (amilions). He was so great in getting inside data and publishing them. He used to say that he had hacked the BDA's official web site for tha tinfo. I had to believe it as he would get info published that was only known to a small circle of people on the...

It is ironic to be in this thread as the very first high-definition clip I saw that Sony showed us privately was LoA! It was a short clip on then Japanese recorder version of BD. They did a split screen of standard def against 1080 (p?). Wonder what the origin of that clip was.

Thank you all :). I see that we have moved on from the past. I will try to contribute to the topics and learn from that of others.

Craig, I like to discuss technical and business topics and not each other. I like to focus on the future and not the past. Your interest is the opposite it seems. You continue to make this a battle of people running off with rumors and continue the kind of mudslinging that went on in BD dot...

The simple answer is that they no longer care. You can set up your own shop tomorrow and distribute music however you like as long as you cough up the up front royalty guarantee. They book that revenue and move on to the next guy who wants to do the same. This is actually great because the...

Actually the infrastructure can support better for enthusiasts but is not offered because it is not a priority. One of my missions as of late is to see if a real market can be created to service people who want better than 1080p content. For music HD Tracks has created a modest success in the...

Ah sure. Backward compatibility is not an issue to achieve.

It is 100X more comical to be discussing it now. :D I have explained why we did what we did. Those specs brought with them extremely cheap and fast transition to HD optical. As an engineer and a businessman, what something costs is important to me/us. We wanted HD to happen quickly as to...

That is not what we championed. We championed a format that could be phased in quickly and cheaply into the production cycle that still sharply raised the fidelity bar above that of DVD. No format launch generated as much excitement among the enthusiasts as HD DVD did. If we had not delivered...

There are three causes for banding: 1. Truncation when going from 10 to 8 bits. This is the answer you are giving in that if dither is applied, banding goes away but you raise the noise floor. 2. Upstream banding when content was converted/created from various formats prior to finishing of...

I do know :). And the answer is no. Most of the decoding is "hardwired" in the silicon (SoC) used in Blu-ray player. So both from functionality and performance point of view (think power and bandwidth), this can't be done. The mission for SoC development has been to drive the cost down and...

Well, I appreciate your perspective. Hope you appreciate mine :). Those "immense" funds were not available to us, nor should they have been available to us. We did not stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars from patent royalties to justify spending accordingly. We did put on...

With respect to what they said regarding HD DVD camp, accuracy was OK to poor. Only the insiders on the BD can say how accurate they were with regards to data they disclosed about them. We had good telemetry on the other camp so could judge that to some extent too. Often we found them...

I can't speak to his powers in general inside Warner. As far as deciding which way Warner would go, he would have had a voice but not decision making power.

Steve Nickerson was not the head of Warner Home Video. The head of that group is Kevin Tsujihara who still holds that role. Steve was the day to day man on HD video on the business side. I forget whether he was one or two levels below Kevin. Any decision to change sides would have not only...

Now we know why HD DVD lost. Next time we will be sure to send Kevin to a real PR class so that he knows how to "deal" with reporters. :D

I think I had seen that post from him. It is an incorrect assertion of course. I debated many insiders as much if not worse than him :). None of them lost their insider status because of it. I don't know the exact process but as far as I could tell, all you had to do was to provide name...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=7476767&postcount=11026 Man that was one hell of a data mining job there :). I had never followed his past posts. Thanks for posting them.

Let me make another point if I may. I think during the format war, folks were looking for gladiators to fight the fight. and that was the priority above all Who was underneath the mask was not important. As long as he knew how to hit the other guy good and draw some blood, he was cheered :)...

Well said. One of the best lessons I have learned in this regard in my management training classes came from an ex-presidential speechwriter. When asked how to deal with such situations he said: "Tell it now. Tell it all." His reasoning was that if you at all looked like you were trying to...

I had to look up "Teagan Presley"..... :) So let's see we have this straight: you had an argument with the mods related to a porn star and reference to "Jew" and trouble came from it? You then went on to battle them on the grounds of antisemitism? And called out their lies too? So therefore...

People buy and use PID controllers in DIY projects. My program however, only works with one hardware device that has Ethernet/WiFi called "Stoker" from Rock's Barbecue. By accident, they left the debug interface open on it and I interfaced to it (with their buy-in). Without it, there would be...