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Bye-bye Blu-Ray...we hardly knew ye
boykster:
With every new technology, there will be early adopters and those that follow behind. With the new HD disc formats, I'm NOT an early adopter, but I am interested in the battle as it is, and in due time will accept whatever the new standard is.
I don't see broadband at this time as a real competitor to true full bandwidth 1080p HD distribution of movies on physical media. Until we all have fibre to the house, its just not a feasible solution. Even downloading full resolution DVD's isn't real-time.
As far as the quality difference, sure that's subjective. If you don't see any advantage, then that's fine for you. I have a 720p native projector and several other HD compatible displays (3 plasmas and pair of LCD tv's). A well mastered DVD looks good on these sets, but there is a distinct difference between a true HD source and a well mastered dvd. I have a very nice dvd player (panasonic RP-82), have experimented with several upconverting dvd players, and use a HTPC for most movie playback. I use ffdshow for processing and upconversion on my HTPC and output pixel perfect resolutions for my projector.
I've done blind A-B tests with DVD vs HD content (same programming) and the HD content always wins by a landslide.
I frankly don't care which tech wins. I personally find blu-ray technically superior, but would prefer sony to lose mostly due to the fact that they shut down lik-sang. Long live HD-DVD!!!!! ;D
shmokes:
I will not trust your judgment until you've conducted some double-blind tests.
crashwg:
How does one conduct a blind test of video quality anyways?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Harry Potter on January 22, 2007, 09:49:21 pm ---I can't believe this but I'm on the same opinion of <anything> as Chad.
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I hear that a lot, like I'm a child molestor or Rush Limbaugh.
--- Quote ---And I can't give a crap about HD broadcasts myself. Not because I'm blind, but because I have about 100 channels on Cable TV in SD with good content as opposed to commercial HD-TV with 5 channels of bull-crap.
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Other than the NFL and 24, nothing I watch is broadcast in HD, and even then it's only some of the NFL available in HD (most of Sunday Ticket is not). And I'm not willing to pay the heavy price of upgrading dish, receivers, Tivos, and televisions to get a bit more resolution.
--- Quote from: AlanS17 ---Chances are, though, that I would just buy a PS3 and go BluRay if it comes out as a tie.
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Gotta be careful there. A LOT of people wore out their PS2s early using it as a movie player because of the crappy laser they put in there. The PS3 may not be built well enough to stand up to long term game and movie use. Hell, early reports are that it's not good enough to stand up to either long term. Just like its predecessor.
Harry Potter:
I resent that quote mangle. :hissy:
Wait.... blue and white background.... hmmm..... did Stingray redecorate?