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Since we're talking about technicalities, let me ask you guys something: forgive my ignorance on the subject, but how does modern movie theaters play digital sound with the movies? Is the audio track still a magnetic tape running along with the celluloid?
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Heres in an article on HD-DVD showing that the format war is creating great rivalry in the industry. Some information is not accurate since HD-DVD also uses Blue lasers. Death to Blu-Ray.
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DVDs will be available similarly to how VHS was even though better technology is out there.
I don't really see any reason to buy HD-DVD. My TV isn't digital, and my movies already look excellent.
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DVD will be like VHS has been since DVDs came out.
DVDs will be available similarly to how VHS was even though better technology is out there.
I don't really see any reason to buy HD-DVD. My TV isn't digital, and my movies already look excellent.
Thats true SD-DVDs will still be avaible for probably a decade after HD-DVD is released. The difference between DVD and VHS is 3 times as high on an analog telvision 4x as good on a digital television and 8x as good progressive. HD-DVD has 6x the pixal disc resolution as SD-DVDs. I swear once you look at a D-VHS on a good digital television there is no going back. So if your amazed by how much better DVDs look then VHS on a regular television then you will be blown away by HD-DVD. Some say that certain players upconvert SD-DVDs to HD resolution makes HD-DVD worthless. This is not true. A true 1080p HD-DVD will look 3.5 times as good as an SD-DVD upconverted to 1080p. HD-DVD players will allow such conversion on SD-DVDs. Since HD-DVD players will be backwards compatible with SD-DVDs it will be a long time before your current collection is useless. Still the radical huge difference in picture and sound over SD-DVD will make HD-DVD a great early buy.
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If the price isn't too outrageous, I'd imagine we'll buy one.
I won't rush out and rebuy all my DVDs though. I might rebuy some of my favorites. But DVDs are fine, and the reverse compatibility is a big plus.
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Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Emerging display devices utilizing LCD, LCOS, DLP, and plasma technologies now support a native 1920x1080 resolution. The HD broadcast standard supports 1080p. It doesn't make any sense to build the disc-based HD market--which will likely be the home video standard for decades--on 1080i. You can already get a 20" LCD TV for less than $700; in five years, it will be half that amount, putting LCDs in the same price plateau as current analog displays. They take up less space, they use much less power, and they look cooler. CRT's days are numbered.
Within 10 years, the analog display market will be dead, and interlaced video has no place in a digital world.
It's been suggested they could implement the same deinterlacing technology used for current DVDs (which are 480i) to convert 1080i to 1080p on the fly. Bad idea if you ask me since we'll inherit all the problems DVD has today (bad film edits, poorly encoded progressive flags, etc.). Much better to encode 1080p natively and let the device scale down to lower resolutions for older displays. Studios also perform vertical filtering on 1080i material to reduce artifacts on 1080i displays, drastically reducing detail. If they perform the same processing on 1080i destined for Blu-Ray, upconversion to 1080p inside the player wouldn't provide image quality equal to that of native 1080p.
While I think Sony has the superior technology and they might win the battle based on brute force marketing and sheer numbers (Toshiba and NEC building and selling a couple HD-DVD decks vs. just about every other manufacturer on Earth selling at least one, maybe two or three, Blu-Ray decks), the HD-DVD standard is more forward-thinking and a better deal for consumers. Better codecs, better audio (vs. Blu-Ray's DD/DTS crap), and native 1080p. The lack of storage space is unfortunate, but multi-disc DVD sets don't bother me now, so they won't bother me on the next format either.
If the Blu-Ray Group gets smart and adopts MPEG-4, multi-channel MLP audio, and native 1080p support, then the choice is clear. Until that happens, I'm pushing for HD-DVD.
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Again, Sony recently announced they are considering other codecs. They are no longer taking the hardline stance that MPEG2 is the only way they're going. This is an important step toward Blu-Ray winning the war, but it's still up in the air until Sony gets their act together.
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Wouldn't this just be the biggest kick in the balls? :
It's 2007 and the Star Wars Trilogy HD-DVD comes out. GL says that the original version is also in the set.
So we all buy it and pop it into our player. It seems the main feature is a ultimate edition with tons of hoopla and BS mixed in.
Then when we select 'original version' we get what we now refer to as the 1997 Special Edition.
Sad thing is, I can actually picture this happening.
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Will Blu-Ray or HD-DVD improve the quality of the movie, or simply leave room for more bonus material, languages, and stuff?
Wouldn't this just be the biggest kick in the balls? :
It's 2007 and the Star Wars Trilogy HD-DVD comes out. GL says that the original version is also in the set.
So we all buy it and pop it into our player. It seems the main feature is a ultimate edition with tons of hoopla and BS mixed in.
Then when we select 'original version' we get what we now refer to as the 1997 Special Edition.
Sad thing is, I can actually picture this happening.
Just read above. Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will have 6x the picture. Both formats will have a signifigant improvement in sound but HD-DVD is the better of the two in sound. Neither formats will have more room for extras unless those extras are in Standard Definition. I assume Star Wars saga will hit HD-DVD in 2007 as well. The Ultimate Editions will probably be the only versions of Star Wars out in that format.
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Sad thing is, I can actually picture this happening.
Sad thing is, I can see it, too.
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.
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I'm scared to think what the game discs will cost.
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