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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hmurchison @ Mar 29th 2006 1:57AM
Ben
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.