Im a little more harsh on Blu Ray because of its sheer organizational size and the fact that they tout to be the best, literally,the BDA aka Bluray.com has a loyal website with a forum where you can get together and pretty much worship the BD format. When you say you are the best, in my opinion, you should have the most stable, standardized, affordable format around. In this case, excluding the PS3, if you want to get the cheapest BD player that has everything from an ethernet jack to the ability to decode TrueHD internally(Dont get me started on DTS-HD Master Audio), You have to drop a pretty penny, At least $599 dollars. Technology wise, the BD is far superior to HD-DVD. But when it comes down to the picture,audio,and interactivity experiance that HD-DVD offers the consumer for what it cost? I mean, I enjoy BD, it does have its marits, but if it were up to me, the format would be locked in a way that all players had to come a certain way that guranteed everyone would be able to enjoy everything the format had to offer, both currently and in the future. With BD, its not guranteed because everyone can make limited players for $500 instead of full featured ones. The support for LPCM and increased bandwidth with BD is also a plus, I wont lie about that. But when it comes down to price and interactivity, I go with HD-DVD. The picture quality and audio quality is more then exceptible to the average consumer. We will have to wait and see what happens with this "format war". For the record I have: Toshiba HD-A2(1080i/60) and PS3(1080p/24)
Sean: While BD is awaiting profile updates, for video bandwidth, lens aperture, and capacity... what's better? Disregarding HD-DVD's PiP/Interactivity, the nitty-gritty of movie is the lowest common denominator in producting HD content on some form of media. Cheapest clearly does not mean "best" either. Don't get me wrong, HD-DVD puts out an awesome picture, but the polls show, even on amazon.com that majority of people care about the movie, the Interactivity is secondary. HD-DVD fans tend to boast too much in favor of these features and forget about the movie HD experience in its own.
Killer: Although I will not take a good laugh away from anyone, the statement is somewhat true. There are expanding companies (more of them) taking advantage of the BD hardware and media.
But enough about this, totally off topic and I got tangled into the political mess. Great article, exciting for BD supporters, any mention of HD-DVD is irrelevant (unless these companies mentioned above were making mediums for toshiba as well)
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Sean @ Sep 18th 2007 4:34PM
Im a little more harsh on Blu Ray because of its sheer organizational size and the fact that they tout to be the best, literally,the BDA aka Bluray.com has a loyal website with a forum where you can get together and pretty much worship the BD format. When you say you are the best, in my opinion, you should have the most stable, standardized, affordable format around. In this case, excluding the PS3, if you want to get the cheapest BD player that has everything from an ethernet jack to the ability to decode TrueHD internally(Dont get me started on DTS-HD Master Audio), You have to drop a pretty penny, At least $599 dollars. Technology wise, the BD is far superior to HD-DVD. But when it comes down to the picture,audio,and interactivity experiance that HD-DVD offers the consumer for what it cost? I mean, I enjoy BD, it does have its marits, but if it were up to me, the format would be locked in a way that all players had to come a certain way that guranteed everyone would be able to enjoy everything the format had to offer, both currently and in the future. With BD, its not guranteed because everyone can make limited players for $500 instead of full featured ones. The support for LPCM and increased bandwidth with BD is also a plus, I wont lie about that. But when it comes down to price and interactivity, I go with HD-DVD. The picture quality and audio quality is more then exceptible to the average consumer. We will have to wait and see what happens with this "format war".
For the record I have: Toshiba HD-A2(1080i/60) and PS3(1080p/24)
-dad
domerdel @ Sep 18th 2007 4:48PM
Sean:
While BD is awaiting profile updates, for video bandwidth, lens aperture, and capacity... what's better? Disregarding HD-DVD's PiP/Interactivity, the nitty-gritty of movie is the lowest common denominator in producting HD content on some form of media. Cheapest clearly does not mean "best" either. Don't get me wrong, HD-DVD puts out an awesome picture, but the polls show, even on amazon.com that majority of people care about the movie, the Interactivity is secondary. HD-DVD fans tend to boast too much in favor of these features and forget about the movie HD experience in its own.
Killer:
Although I will not take a good laugh away from anyone, the statement is somewhat true. There are expanding companies (more of them) taking advantage of the BD hardware and media.
But enough about this, totally off topic and I got tangled into the political mess. Great article, exciting for BD supporters, any mention of HD-DVD is irrelevant (unless these companies mentioned above were making mediums for toshiba as well)