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Posted by ~P~ on 04/10/06 05:37
Jeff,
There are DVD disc players that can support HD playback including 1080p.
Your cable box could deliver 1080p. The issue is that video must actually
be compressed to fit onto the discs themselves. The more storage space you
have, the less compression that needs to occur to that video. The higher
the allowed bandwidth of the player, the lower the compression needs to be.
This all adds up to better image quality possible (not cofirmed!) from
Blu-ray over HD-DVD. Throw in the audio hi-bitrate standards for HD audio
formats and this forces a decrease in video levels if the highest transfer
rates from the disc are being utilized.
Hope that makes sense for what the difference is - Blu-ray actually holds
more data and moves it more quickly, which in the world of compressed video
(1080p) is a very good thing and increases final image and audio quality
when used to its full ability.
As for the audio - the HD audio standards are part of HDMI 1.3 and are
included capabilities on HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc. As I said though, with
HD-DVD video has to take a hit when these HD audio formats are used with
those discs while Blu-ray has the bandwidth to maintain a higher quality
video signal.
OF COURSE: It's all potentials right now and first generation product. So,
I'll wait and see what transpires in the next year or so.
:o)
~P~
"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1ea333f57ab44b9298a44b@news.nabs.net...
>What, exactly is "full HD pass thru"? If a player can output to HDMI
>at 1920x1080/60p, then there is nothing more needed. Since both HD-DVD
>and BR can do this, I don't see what the difference is.
>Talk about useless marketing hype. First, there isn't a digital audio
>connection on *any* consumer equipment that can handle as little as
>5 channels of uncompressed 44kHz/16-bit audio...the 3.5Mbps is more than
>SP/DIF can handle. To be able to handle 8 channels of uncompressed
>96KHz/24-bit audio, you'd need over 18Mbps.
>So, although the decoder internal to the BR player can "handle" such
>audio, nothing else will ever be able to see it in digital form.
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