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Posted by Goro on 01/25/06 14:00
nospam@nospam.com wrote:
> How ingenious the plan is? I pitty those Best Buy Salespersons who
> will need to explain analogue downconvert and then player upconvert to
> potential buyers. As if all these differences between LCD, LCD
> projection, DLP, DLP Led, Plasma, Blue Ray, HD DVD are not enough to
> make Joe Six Packs?head spin. The end result is that Joe will
> probably just walk out the door with his money in his pocket without
> buying a thing.
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> http://www.dvdexclusive.com/article.asp?articleID=2657&categoryID=
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> HIGH-DEF FORCED TO DOWN-CONVERT
> In deal reached by eight-company consortium
> By Paul Sweeting 1/23/2006
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> Some buyers of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players might not get
> everything they bargained for.
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> In a deal reached this week after tense negotiations, the
> eight-company consortium behind the Advanced Access Content System,
> created for use by both high-def formats to prevent unauthorized
> copying, has agreed to require hardware makers to bar some high-def
> signals from being sent from players to displays over analog
> connections, sources said.
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> Instead, the affected analog signal must be "down-converted" from the
> full 1920x1080 lines of resolution the players are capable of
> outputting to 960x540 lines--a resolution closer to standard DVDs than
> to high-def. Standard DVDs are typically encoded at 720 horizontal by
> 480 vertical lines of resolution.
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Is this new? The idea that HD content would only be available via HDCP
(HDMI or DVI with HDCP, but not DVI w/o HDCP and certainly not with
analog) was established a long time ago. Anyone with an older HD TV is
totally screwed as they have (at best) DVI w/o HDCP, but i think all
new HDTVs have HDMI.
So the ones getting screwed were the early-EARLY adopters who bought
HDTVs too soon. Those of us who bought 720p HDTVs are getting
marginally screwed as BR is outputting 1080p. Those that are buing
1080p HDTVs right now are getting slightly less screwed as they don't
have 1080p INPUTS.
But Joe Sixpack prolly doesn't have an HDTV. OR if he does, he's one
of those 50% who are watching SD content and convinced that it's HD...
and still "loving it."
In the end, what is going to sell BR/HDDVD to the masses will not be
picture quality, it will be added value.
for eg.
* HD-discs could be priced substantially below DVD prices, which could
be a combination of raising DVD prices and low HD price points. Could
make DVD rental priced for a window and imitate the VHS-DVD siutation,
which encouraged DVD adoption.
* HD-discs available earlier than DVD. WB is saying 3weeks after
theatrical with DVD window remainigng same. IIRC, in the earlier days
of DVD, DVDs weren't availabel ont he same day as VHS.
* Convenience. More content available per single disc (and cheaper).
* Or something else as the Killer App. Of the above, none rate as
Killer App over current DVD (including picture quality). normally for
something to become adopted, there has to be something unpredicted to
occur and become adopted. for DVD, it may have been DeCSS adn the ease
of replication/piracy. What will it be for BR/HDDVD?
-goro-
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