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I starting to think lossy sound is going to end up being a feature that we'll regret in the future like non-anamorphic discs that we all still own from the early days of DVD. Sure lossy seems ok now, but some day when we get used to the higher quality of lossless, we'll be looking to upgrade...

Actually over at AVS they have direct digital captures of flags and the Blu-Ray demonstrably has more detail. It's not exactly night and day, but it does have more high frequency information (both the encodes have a different tint to the picture, but that's a different arguement as to what...

And yet it would do no harm, and possibly do good. I still say the masters are the weak spot at this point. It'd be the same pattern we saw with DVD at the beginning. I think the extra bitrate will be more beneficial when studios are all mastering in 4k and working from there. Obviously the...

The only way to waste space on a disc is not to use it at all.

Ah, but optimizing for maximum quality with a higher ceiling and optimizing for the max bitrate they actually have available are not necessarily the same thing. They could optimize for a bitrate half of what they use on this disc, but that doesn't mean that it would look identical to the current...

I forsee Star Trek Season 1 as being one of the most pirated HD-DVD sets on the market. With the price set that high, many will not feel the urge to obtain it by legal means. In the long run, they may end up encouraging piracy by trying to set such a high price and end up making much less money.

For that price, they could atleast have gone the extra mile and allowed people to watch the original effects version of the shows through seemless branching.

But it lacks a space and bandwidth hogging TrueHD sound track. Would it have impacted the video quality? There's no sure answer, so it's not the best example to use. Also King Kong has no HD extras, which again makes it a bad example. If you really want to prove HD-DVD has no space issues, you...

Over at AVSforums RBfilms shared some information from last year about what his prices were for producing each format in terms of glass master fees and AACS fees and such. You have to consider that in addition to the outlay to go all the way from initial production to disc replication, a small...

They are probably just reusing an old HD master they used for the last DVD. I'd assume if they were mastering it now for HD-DVD, edge enhancement wouldn't be added.

Even on the hardware side now with Denon going Blu-Ray.

Not that this HD-DVD/Blu-Ray will not look stunning, but I'm not sure you want to base this assumption off of an IGN review. :P

I can verify that my 1080p Sony 70" SXRD XBR2 doesn't exhibit any ghosting or blurring at any resolution through either HDMI or component. Any that you are seeing is all equipment or source related. Which is about what Carlos was trying to tell you.

In store networks that distrubute over component video can easily cause a lot of problems if there isn't enough bandwidth/signal strength. When an analog HD signal doesn't have enough bandwidth to diplay it's total resolution it effectively halves the possible resolution. So a bandwidth staved...

I think part of some of the strife is that some people HAVE to reply whenever someone makes a statement they disagree with. It's like you can't have a differing opinion without being rebutted even if the rebutted point is wildly off topic for the thread. It's one thing to argue about something...

One of the main reason I think Blu-Ray should win is because someday the quality control on these discs, much like DVD did, is going to go out the window. With HD-DVD and a 30GB max, there is far more potential for studios to do unmanned automatic super low bit rate encodes. Also you know that...

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Haha. This press release is apparently so obviously misleading that even the HD-DVD fanboys at AVS have to agree that it's BS. Which probably also the reason people here have so much to say about it. :P

If you are going to sticky something, how about a thread about whether it's best for the consumer to have one format or two? This would prevent it from taking over all the threads as it has done of late. Nothing like off topic walls of text and people rebutting each other repeating the same...

Either you are neutral or you are not. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. :P

Yes, obviously I'm going for serious. :P ;) :D Anyways, you guys can go back to rehashing why or why not it's best to have 2 formats yet again. ;)

This is hardly the only thread where this is being discussed.

Just owning both players certainly doesn't make anyone neutral. :P

Cees, can you and Thomas agree on a form response whenever most of the other forum members say there should only be one format? The numerous posts both of you have made over the last few weeks denying it would be more efficient. Just copy and paste once per thread each and then just link back to...

HD-DVD's strategy for the 1st quarter finally makes sense. Release very few movies in the 1st quarter, release a lot in quarter 2 then make a press release about how much your format is growing quarter over quarter. ;)

I think technically grain would be considered a form of noise.

And thus the Microsoft investment in the xbox comes full circle. They'll have a robust and tested download service full sprung on the PC. They even have the getting it to your TV angle covered. Buy on the PC, play it on the 360. HD downloads here we come. Gotta give it to Microsoft, they have...

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/804/804901p1.html Some anime for Blu-Ray.

Actually Sony is asking because it will possibly have an impact on the video quality. They are basically looking to do one encode of the original language in lossless and one video encode for the whole world. They will then load up the Blu-Ray for European release with 640kbs DD soundtracks for...

Just as long as it ends.