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What's the point of HD-DVD / DVD dual-discs? (1 Viewer)

Lew Crippen

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Actually one of the advantages for HD-DVD is that the manufacturing process is the same as it was DVD. The single layer/dual layer manufacturing process has been goiong on for some time with no problems.

You may not like the product and can certainly question the reasons why it even exists, but making the product is really not an issue
 

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Maybe they believe (silly silly marketers) that some households have multiple DVD players per house, and that upgrading a kid's bedroom setup to HD-DVD is silly. Of course, you coud just implement it as a new zone, but that would preclude simultaneous watching of different movies.

Until a portable SACD player comes out, a redbook layer will continue to be very useful.
 

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The problem is that it is simply not fair to force ALL people who are interested in buying HD DVDs to pay extra just to benefit the portion of people who want a "one disc fits all players/rooms" implementation.

Fair would be for people who demand this "multi player/room functionality" to have to pay a little extra for it, while those that don't want or need it aren't forced to pay extra.

It's a new format. Period. It's great that the players play standard def DVDs too, but it is not fair to force the two formats together on one disc and charge people who aren't interested in the SD extra for it.
 

Sean Bryan

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Yeah, make them the same price as HD DVD only and then it's basically a non-issue (with the exception that a disc with art is asthetically nicer).

This, of course, is assuming HD DVD 30 is used (not 15).
 

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2 disc is the solution, like Sony is doing with UMD.
 

JeremyErwin

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I though umd was dead. (ducks...)

Is there any way to tell whether a HDDVD is single, double or perhaps triple layered? And even if there were, do these translate into visually discernible differences in quality?
 

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Toshiba was never able to make triple-layer HD DVDs work, or at least they had enough trouble trying to get them to work that they ended up not including that in the final specs. So there wont be any triple-layer HD DVDs. As for how limited space can effect image and sound quality, on paper of course the less compressed, and the higher the bit rate the less chance of seeing or hearing artificial artifacts. It will also depend of course on how long a film is, the size of the audio tracks, the amount of special features, and the resolution of those features.
 

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Might hybrids make better rental discs? ...if nothing else.... That could be a potential advantage over Blu-way?
 

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Not for rentals if no scratch resistance. One of the VERY reasons for us preferring Blu-Ray. The data is more sensitive already!
 

Sean Bryan

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Well, it looks like Universal is now tainting some of its HD DVD releases with hybrids.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61797

What's worse is that Animal House is going to be a hybrid. What the hell is the point of THAT?!

And as a extra special bonus to those who are excitted to start collecting movies in HD, the HD DVD side will be movie only. In order to see the extras you have to flip it to the SD side.

Whoopie!! Way to go HD DVD!! :rolleyes:CRAP! :angry:
 

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