Panasonic announces release date for Blu-Ray player

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Jim @ Mar 29th 2006 10:45AM

Universal players may be a good thing. The consumer is getting stuck with paying for both licenses/royalities on each player, but there might be more competition and drive prices down on media (Sony and Toshiba wil keep lowering the cost to use their format, trying to entice studios then the studios passing the savings on to the consumer).

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.

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