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Until sanity returns to the industry I'll just continue to *suffer* with my upscaling Denon DVD player.]]>Mar 28th 2006 6:36PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/
Why? Blu-Ray movies will also all be 1080p.

Neither format is future-proof.]]>Mar 28th 2006 6:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/Mar 28th 2006 7:07PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/
As for the 1080i that is such a non-issue. If you have a 1080p monitor then the chances are likely it's built in scaler is upscaling to 1080p. The Sony XRD 1080p sets do this. Are you losing quality? No...on properly flagged material a 1080i signal is properly recontructed and will display with full clarity on a 1080p set.

Jim that was a good post btw.

Here's to LG making an affordable Universal Player for those of us sick of the shananigans. ]]>Mar 28th 2006 11:09PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/
Over half of 1080p TVs throw away 50% of the lines when converting from 1080i to 1080p, so it isn't the same. You are really watching 540 lines twice.

If LG makes a dual format player they will get sued by both formats since it is against the license agreement of both to create a dual format player. ]]>Mar 28th 2006 11:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/
Only the monitors that cannot do Inverse Telecine will suffer any artifacts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#Digital_television.2C_high_definition.2C_and_DVD

and

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/video2_2.htm

Describe the process. No data is thrown away and the scaler has flags present in the signal to reconstruct the image as though it was progressive from the start.

To date I've seen no empirical evidence to support it is against license agreements to support both formats in a dual format player. If LG is attempting to create such a player I would think this is proof enough that the prohibition of dual format players does not exist.

HD DVD is cheaper and provides excellent quality. The real question is why should I pay more for Blu Ray? Does Blu Ray make my movies look better? Unlikely. Does it hold more storage. Yes, what does that matter if both formats hold %95 of all movies on one disc?

People should be concerned about the subsidy that Sony is giving large studios to press BD-ROM. It masks the true cost of pressing BD. On AVS there was a guy (Tivo dealer) that got two quotes on pressing a small run of discs. The Blu Ray quote was higher than HD DVD by a factor of 10. Without that Sony subsidy many smaller studios will realize that the costs of Blu Ray just don't make sense when compared to HD DVD.

Toss in another layer of DRM in BD+ and ROM Mark and you have a system that is more suited towards keeping content providers happy rather than consumers.

There's nothing in Blu Ray that I can't do equally well in HD DVD and as of today at half the cost. ]]>Mar 29th 2006 1:57AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/Mar 29th 2006 3:05AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/
Let's face it, both formats are nearly identical from an encoding standpoint and AACS. Corporate greed is at stake and neither side is backing down. (It might eventually bite them both in the butt). The difference is physical, the way the disc itself is made. HD-DVD just kept the traditional DVD format for the most part and is just using the new laser. Sony re-invented the wheel with Blu-Ray. I would love to see one side lose this battle. Personally I think HD-DVD makes more sense (more evolutionary than revolutionary) and far less expensive for the same viewing experience. It does seem that HD-DVD is more consumer friendly and Blu-Ray is more for the paranoid MPAA members.

The 1080i upscaling on a 1080p set makes complete sense, just as DVD is encoded in 480i, viewing with a progressive scan player essentially doubles the quality. ]]>Mar 29th 2006 10:45AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/28/panasonic-announce-release-date-for-blu-ray-player/
Only one format will prevail, and these discs will be used for much more than watching movies. Obviously, gamers, computer users, and software companies are always going to root for the medium with the more advanced technology for holding the most data. Dell Computer has commited to Blu-Ray. Sony's PS3 will ship with Blu-Ray. Just judging by the amount of people who purchase Dell Computer's and by the amount of gamers that will buy the PS3, Blu-Ray will surely win this battle.

Prices will go down with time and we will end up with a medium that will hold hundreds of GB of data on a single disc and for the price of DVD's today.]]>Apr 25th 2006 6:35AM