Posted by Mutley on 07/02/07 06:42

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.

The down side of Bluray is regional coding. Non on HD DVD which
matters outside the USA..

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