It just means you won't be able to use your rabbit ears antennas anymore.
Whether you're watching an HD or SD digital broadcast, you're still picking that transmission up through an antenna. In other words, you still can use rabbit ears pick up any local digital signals. In fact, I found that rabbit ears work pretty well.
Correct. I remember when HD transmissions were just starting, and a Home Theater magazine tested several attennas and determined that a cheapie antenna from Radio Shack worked just fine. I think a lot of people either forgot or didn't know to begin with that HD is transmitted over UHF, which is all the channels above 13.
You would simply plug your UHF antenna into the decoder box, which converts the ATSC HD signal to NTSC for your analog television.
But is the higher bitrate being used? Do you know how many reviews find the HD and BR releases to be almost identical?
and it has special java abilities that HD-DVD doesn't
Whether you're watching an HD or SD digital broadcast, you're still picking that transmission up through an antenna. In other words, you still can use rabbit ears pick up any local digital signals. In fact, I found that rabbit ears work pretty well.
Correct. I remember when HD transmissions were just starting, and a Home Theater magazine tested several attennas and determined that a cheapie antenna from Radio Shack worked just fine. I think a lot of people either forgot or didn't know to begin with that HD is transmitted over UHF, which is all the channels above 13.
You would simply plug your UHF antenna into the decoder box, which converts the ATSC HD signal to NTSC for your analog television.
The reason they use only 30 GB sometimes is because companies are too cheap to do an encode just for Blu Ray so the HD-DVD encode is used, so HD-DVD is really lowering the standards for some Blu-Ray titles.
Exactly how many movies do you know of that use all 30Gbs, much less 50Gbs?
Blu-Ray has a much higher bitrate and almost twice the space
Exactly how many movies do you know of that use all 30Gbs, much less 50Gbs?
Blu-Ray has a much higher bitrate and almost twice the space
But is the higher bitrate being used? Do you know how many reviews find the HD and BR releases to be almost identical?
and it has special java abilities that HD-DVD doesn't
Yet HD required such "special abilities" in its players from Day One. Only recently have most BR models been incorporating such features, and unlike HD-DVD, they are not mandatory.
its superior in almost every way.
Not really. In addition to the above, HD-DVD customers don't have to worry about region coding or BD+.