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Posted by Rich on 06/02/06 02:03
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:29:51 -0700, Walter Traprock
<wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Rich <me@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Dust and any thing else that constitutes "dirt" will be the bane of
>> the Blu-Ray, HD-DVD experience. With pits smaller than bacteria, any
>> amount of dust on a disc could cause a momentary glitch in playback,
>> despite error correction mechanisms.
>>
>> http://www.dvdtown.com/article/reviewofthetoshibahd-a1hd-dvdp/3255/
>>
>> Also, I experienced a momentary video dropout during "Phantom of the
>> Opera." It lasted only a couple of seconds, corrected itself, and went
>> on. As I could not repeat it, I suspect a piece of dust was the
>> culprit. When I took the disc out and examined it, I saw no obvious
>> flaws, no scratches or fingerprints. Maybe the Toshiba A1's
>> error-correction mechanism is extra fussy about these things; or maybe
>> high-definition discs, with the laser having to read smaller data pits
>> than SD discs, are more susceptible to tiny dust and lint particles.
>> By extension of this latter logic, Blu-ray, with data pits even
>> smaller than HD-DVD, might be even more sensitive to dust. We'll have
>> to wait and see.
>
>That sucks. Also from the above link:
>
>We come to the big question: How does the Toshiba HD-A1 perform? First,
>the carps, just to get them out of the way. The thing takes what seems
>like forever to load a disc. Upon initially turning it on, the machine
>has to transfer some data and check some things, like, I'm told,
>watermarks on an HD-DVD to see if it's a bootleg. The Toshiba owner's
>manual informs us that "the HD-DVD player operates more like a computer
>and differently than a standard DVD player. In addition to containing a
>microprocessor, it contains an operating system, random access memory
>(RAM), and an HD DVD drive." So expect it to be slow. I counted about
>thirty seconds or more to load a disc and some lag time on clicking on
>certain menu items.
This is true. Accordiing to "The Enquirer" (a computer news website)
the video processors in these things are actual computer video cards,
Nvidia or something.
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