Well, along the lines of the Shatner/Lucas post from earlier... This had me rolling. I would love to see this as one of the interstitial scenes Lucas is planning on putting back into the original trilogy... Sorry if it's been posted before. I just saw it.
I've seen no indication that Blu-ray disks will be priced any more than $1 more expensive than HD disks, on the average. If that. Do you have a citation comparing the two?
While it's impossible to speculate on exactly what motivates various members of the DVD Forum, the list is made up of more than hardware manufacturers-- some of whom, despite this, have patent money in DVD (and by extension, HD DVD) technologies, and some of whom are of the opinion, "Cheap...
Short-sightedness, along with the fact that there are no native 2.35:1 devices in mass production-- or even planned in the near future. But to play the Devil's advocate, they'd have to incorporate extra scaling capability in the 1st generation devices to accomodate display devices which...
And I guess my response is that, yes, we're all aware of that. 1080p will only truly have 1080 lines of resolution on film material with an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 or lower. We call it "1080p" because that's the encoding scheme, not because we necessarily expect every pixel line to be filled.
I'm not sure what you think we're not noticing. That 2.35:1 films will be letterboxed? According to sources, there will be data on the disk which specifies the pixel area used, though not the ratio. In other words, there's supposedly an "xheight" and "yheight" measurement which will, in the...
What high price in disks? Last I saw, they were looking to be ~$1 higher than HD DVD, on the average. High price on hardware... no argument there, though IMO in comparison to 1st gen DVD players, the prices are reasonable.
You can permanently download if you want, and copy the file to DVD, but you can only play it back on the original machine. I'm going with "Thumbs down", unless you want a cheap rental when your only screen is your laptop or a crummy hotel TV.
It's not bad for a rental (I thought I saw $0.99, but I could be wrong), but at 1.5GB at 480x320 resolution (or perhaps something different-- but it's ~150,000 pixels, whatever it is) I agree... the sale price needs work.
Sure. I'd pay an extra $300 (worst case, with brand new OPU), provided it was a quality vendor (Denon, Pioneer... possibly even Samsung) and not LG. But it may take awhile to develop (or adapt) an OPU. I'll believe they're coming when they demo a model. Announcements with no details make me...
The video encoder hardware basically has blanking interval routines, with big blank spots marked "insert picture here" which are filled by the decoders.
Unfortunately, I'm not privy to the specifics, but the chipsets being used are on the order of $20 per. OPUs are several times that. The companies that design the chips (all of them, not just the ones who are jumping up and down saying "Look at us! We're universal!") aren't in the business to...
That's actually relatively easy to block, though. If you incorporate it into the picture somehow, the person trying to "remove" it needs to be much more technically apt and risks making the picture look worse if it's done wrong.