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Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 07/01/07 15:54
In article <1183304455.084486.92340@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
ninphan <sjburke73@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 8:47 pm, Spurious Response
> <SpuriousRespo...@cleansignal.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:17:37 -0400, Derek Janssen
> >
> > <eja...@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
> > >Sounds like they know WE know we're sitting on our hands waiting for the
> > >Standards requirement,
> >
> > Life would have been so much simpler if EVERYONE had just boycotted the
> > Sony money sucking behemoth, and went with the better HD DVD standard.
> >
> > No hand sitting required then.
>
> Less bandwidth, less capacity.
>
> No thanks, the HD DVD format has not proved to be better in my eyes.
> Hardly any use of lossless audio despite TrueHD being mandatory in
> players.
>
> Blu-ray - 120+ discs with lossless audio
> HD DVD - 30 something
>
> HD DVD has been out two months longer and they have the audacity to
> say they are the look and sound of perfect. I'm sorry, but lossy Dolby
> Digital Plus at 1.5 Mbps is not perfect. Blu-ray is spanking HD DVD
> left, right and centre in the audio department and has been the far
> more consistent format so far this year for picture quality as well.
>
> Life would have been so much simpler if Microsoft had stayed out of it
> and then Toshiba would have not been able to launch their stupid
> inferior format.
BD isn't spanking anything. While they are stuffing the lossless TrueHD
on many disks, most players don't decode it. Fox keeps sticking DTS-MA
on their stuff, and exactly ZERO BD players can deal with it. And the
studios keep bitching that 7.1 LPCM takes up too much space.
Life would have been so much simpler if Sony had stayed out of it. That
way more mfgs would have come to the simpler, more stable HDDVD format.
While not all the studios are doing TrueHD with HDDVD, the option is
there for them to do it. And on HDDVD, TrueHD is supported by every
single HDDVD player manufactured to date. Something far from true on
the BD side.
That's why the war is still going on. Of course, as consumers, we
should be thrilled that it is. Do you think the player pricing we see
today would be this low if one or the other had 'won'? With the
absolutely pathetic sales of all titles in any HD format, do you think
we would have this many titles out already?
If you believe either of those, then the tooth fairy should have left me
my money by now! ;-)
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