Recent content by Adam Tyner

...but it doesn't mention DTS-HD MA anywhere in there. :) DT-HD stands for "Dolby TrueHD" -- all of the specs I can find on Google for the Battlestar Galactica set (TVShowsOnDVD.com, for example) list TrueHD as an option.

After the fact, yes. It wasn't much of a 'format war' between DVD and Divx, but there was one nonetheless.

These hybrid discs were announced pretty early on, although nothing ever came of them. If I remember correctly, a small percentage of traditional DVD players couldn't handle these single-sided hybrid discs, and even 2-3% of DVD players is an impossibly huge number. There would be one layer...

Here are two that say they aren't. Admittedly, one's by me. :) DVD Talk Home Theater Spot It's not out of the realm of possibility that two of the reviewers you cited were parrotting High Def Digest's claim. It's possible that the extras are presented in 1080p on HD DVD, but if it is...

I believe the inability to upconvert over component is exclusively for material on DVDs, not HD DVDs.

I'm fairly positive that the documentary was produced in high-definition, but my personal impression is that the HD DVD doesn't present it that way. (...or if the documentary is in 1080p on HD DVD, The Weinstein Company did something bizarre like downsample it to standard definition then scale...

Quoting Peter Bracke isn't the strongest evidence. :) It's so far from looking HD to me that I can't fathom how anyone could think that it is. Maybe it's just me. :shrugs:

The documentary (and all of the extras) are in standard definition unless I need to get the prescription on my glasses revisited. It's 16x9-enhanced, without a doubt, but it doesn't come close to approaching even lousy HD quality.

Right -- despite the Best Buy ad and an onslaught of rumors, The Black Dahlia was never officially announced. It's one of the only Universal releases since they started releasing day/date titles on HD DVD to be snubbed, for whatever reason. (American Dreamz is the only other one, I believe.)

What's the source of this image? I was just called gullible when I posted this to another forum.

I didn't do a direct comparison between the two, but the HD DVD matches what I remember about the Universal HD presentation closely enough. I can't imagine why they wouldn't share the same transfer since Universal HD first aired the movie less than a year ago.

Neither HD DVD nor Blu-ray released Full Metal Jacket. Warner did. There is no technical limitation preventing them from doing so, although for what it's worth, two of Warner's most recent HD DVD releases -- Caddyshack and The Searchers -- include the original monaural audio, and presumably the...

For what it's worth, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has its extras on both sides, so perhaps this won't be something we have to suffer with much longer. 30/9 combo discs (30 gigs on the HD DVD side; 9 gigs on the DVD side) are reportedly in the wings, and if those ever do come to market, that may...

A compressionist who's worked on some of these Warner titles is a regular poster to the AVS Forum, and since he was able to list the average bitrate of the T3 disc, presumably that means it's very close to release.