Joseph Bolus
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Hyothetically, (and extrapolating from what has been disseminated earlier in this thread), let's assume the following:
* The new Toshiba player upscales ordinary DVDs to high-def resolution while simultaneously cleaning up MPEG-2 compression artifacts via a new, improved DSP algorithm.
* The new Toshiba player will also play new discs (which we are calling "Super DVD" or S-DVD).
* S-DVD discs can be played on *all* current DVD players and/or computer DVD drives. As you know, Blu-ray discs require a Blu-ray player.
* When played on a Toshiba S-DVD player, the S-DVD disc will provide nearly all the interactive features currently being touted by Blu-ray. It will (apparently) be using a derivation of the HD-I interactive layer developed by Microsoft. This interactive layer will be ignored by regular DVD players
* S-DVD discs will benefit from HD-I in another very important way (from a studio's perspective): While all S-DVD discs can be played in all regular DVD players and computer drives, the interactive layer adds new copy protection to the disc. In particular, computers will no longer be able to easily copy the contents of a S-DVD.
If all of this were hypothetically true, would the masses not embrace it over Blu-ray??
* The new Toshiba player upscales ordinary DVDs to high-def resolution while simultaneously cleaning up MPEG-2 compression artifacts via a new, improved DSP algorithm.
* The new Toshiba player will also play new discs (which we are calling "Super DVD" or S-DVD).
* S-DVD discs can be played on *all* current DVD players and/or computer DVD drives. As you know, Blu-ray discs require a Blu-ray player.
* When played on a Toshiba S-DVD player, the S-DVD disc will provide nearly all the interactive features currently being touted by Blu-ray. It will (apparently) be using a derivation of the HD-I interactive layer developed by Microsoft. This interactive layer will be ignored by regular DVD players
* S-DVD discs will benefit from HD-I in another very important way (from a studio's perspective): While all S-DVD discs can be played in all regular DVD players and computer drives, the interactive layer adds new copy protection to the disc. In particular, computers will no longer be able to easily copy the contents of a S-DVD.
If all of this were hypothetically true, would the masses not embrace it over Blu-ray??