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After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
Are you sure this is correct? I thought most studios had stopped releasing movies on VHS. Do you have a link to Amazon's page for Spider-Man 3 on VHS? I was unable to find it myself. -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
And what if you don't have access to the title anytime? What if the studio's rights to the title lapse, and the new rights-holder doesn't immediately offer that title for download again? With a DVD, I can still watch an out-of-print title anytime I want, without having to worry about when it... -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
Out of curiosity, why? -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
Why would you support Blu-ray as the "winner" but not HD-DVD? -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
I just meant that you seem satisfied with your HD VOD service, limited selection and MAR notwithstanding. So even though the bandwidth is apparently less than that of HD-DVD, it doesn't seem to be a real problem. -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
Is there a question I'm supposed to answer? -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
Presumably, by delivering the video in a quality lower than that of HD-DVD--or at least, what HD-DVD is capable of. Your testimonial makes it sound like this is of little concern in practice. -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
Actually, streaming is more bandwidth-sensitive than downloading. Downloading a movie over a bandwidth-limited connection means that your movie will take a little bit longer to download. Annoying, but not that big a deal. Streaming a movie, however, requires that the connection maintain... -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
The chief difference between standard DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-ray is in resolution--1920:1080 vs. 720:480. Old, academy-radio, black-and-white films like Casablanca might not look as polished as Batman Begins in some respects, but they are shot on film, which still contains much more detail than can... -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
I'm not sure-- Was there a region-free standard DVD player available at this point (about a year in) in the format's lifetime? Regional encoding is no less a part of the DVD specification than it is of the Blu-ray specification. The difference is that DVD has been around a lot longer and... -
After almost a year, still glad to be sitting out format war
You're mistaken. Standard DVD does indeed have a regional encoding scheme. In fact, it's stricter than on either of the HD formats: HD-DVD has no regional encoding at all, and Blu-ray divides the world up into only three regions, compared to standard DVD's six.