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Posted by Gaz on 01/05/08 19:36
Fry wrote:
>> I take it you've not seen Hi-Def then? I'm still nursing a semi over
>> the 5 disc Blade Runner blu-ray, and I've had it for a couple of
>> weeks now.
>
> Hi-Def is nice, but it offers few significant leaps over DVD... You
> get higher picture quality and sound, but that's about it. Most are
> perfectly happy with DVD, whereas people weren't satisfied with VHS.
> With downloads, you'll get better than DVD picture quality, and
> something that's much more convenient than having to go to shops and
> buy discs and then store them all at home.
>
>> Fibre won't do it in my life-time, same way as I'll still buy a CD,
>> since I'll never download anything from iTunes in my life, spend
>> money and have nothing to show for it? What if my hard disc fails???
>
> In the case of iTunes, if your hard disk fails, you load up iTunes, go
> Store -> Check for Puchases... and then it looks at what you've bought
> and what you have on your disk, and re-downloads anything that's
> missing.
>
>> Also, why am I paying almost as much for something less than half the
>> quality?
>
> Two reasons: Apple don't have any competition, and most people aren't
> bothered.
>> No if you want streamed media with all the MPEG blockyness, that's
>> up to you, I'll stick to my blu-ray discs that I can watch whenever
>> I want without having to pay again.
>
> H.264 at a decent bitrate is more than sufficient to deliver a decent
> picture. I guess it comes down to how often you watch films...
Mainstream (the ones on the shelves at PCWorld for under 499) PCs and
laptops are not up to handling h.264 yet.... I come across machines less
then three years old that arent able capable of running DVDs without jumping
more times then an olympic gymnast.
Gaz
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