People are gonna be pissed when they buy this, then go "uh, you'se tellin' me this aint playing the best picture!? I'm a gonna go bak to Wal-Mart and demand my money back. You kids stay here with the babies".
The BluRay camp does need to step up the heat on pricing, and hopefully this will happen sometime before Black Friday.
There's no reason for them to be pissed.. they are getting the best picture. 1080i is the same as 1080p. Read above and stop talking out of your ass.
Yeah, I'm sure that $500 Panasonic (THE ONLY 1.1 player that MIGHT be available) will absolutely kill sales. Or maybe you are talking about $400 PS3 that nobody is interested as, you are right, there are no games for it. Oh wait, I'm sorry 3 good games, other stuff is down right embarassing.
Wait, oh I know.. they'll be selling you OBSOLETE Blu-Ray players that have stopped being manufactured and will not provide full functionality on future titles for $300. COOL!!
You just go and buy that, and the rest of us will be buying $100 HD DVD players that do EVERYTHING right.
You clearly don't understand how this works. HD-DVD's are encoded at 1080p24, meaning 24 frames per second. That can be encoded into 1080i60 without any loss of information. Any modern TV will reassemble the signal back into 1080p60 or 1080p24, whichever it supports.
Even the expensive HD-DVD (and Blu-Ray) players decode to 1080i internally. The better ones have an extra chip that reassembles the signal to 1080p60 so your TV doesn't have to. However, if your TV already does this well, then it doesn't make sense to pay extra for that chip in the DVD player.
The only raw video output is 1080p24, which only a handful of HD-DVD players and TVs support. The amount of benefit from native framerate (24fps) viewing is debatable, but again, only the absolute newest TVs support it anyway.
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James Rainey @ Nov 1st 2007 2:21AM
NO 1080p... Why bother.
People are gonna be pissed when they buy this, then go "uh, you'se tellin' me this aint playing the best picture!? I'm a gonna go bak to Wal-Mart and demand my money back. You kids stay here with the babies".
The BluRay camp does need to step up the heat on pricing, and hopefully this will happen sometime before Black Friday.
Nfinity @ Nov 1st 2007 2:27AM
There's no reason for them to be pissed.. they are getting the best picture. 1080i is the same as 1080p. Read above and stop talking out of your ass.
Yeah, I'm sure that $500 Panasonic (THE ONLY 1.1 player that MIGHT be available) will absolutely kill sales. Or maybe you are talking about $400 PS3 that nobody is interested as, you are right, there are no games for it. Oh wait, I'm sorry 3 good games, other stuff is down right embarassing.
Wait, oh I know.. they'll be selling you OBSOLETE Blu-Ray players that have stopped being manufactured and will not provide full functionality on future titles for $300. COOL!!
You just go and buy that, and the rest of us will be buying $100 HD DVD players that do EVERYTHING right.
Deathwish238 @ Nov 1st 2007 6:00AM
I'm a BluRay fan. That said, the HD-A2 for $100 is a steal. It does a great job upconverting DVDs...I was gonna get an Oppo but this is cheaper!
Who cares if it can't do 1080p? 1080i=1080p@24fps
stretchsje @ Nov 1st 2007 9:16AM
You clearly don't understand how this works. HD-DVD's are encoded at 1080p24, meaning 24 frames per second. That can be encoded into 1080i60 without any loss of information. Any modern TV will reassemble the signal back into 1080p60 or 1080p24, whichever it supports.
Even the expensive HD-DVD (and Blu-Ray) players decode to 1080i internally. The better ones have an extra chip that reassembles the signal to 1080p60 so your TV doesn't have to. However, if your TV already does this well, then it doesn't make sense to pay extra for that chip in the DVD player.
The only raw video output is 1080p24, which only a handful of HD-DVD players and TVs support. The amount of benefit from native framerate (24fps) viewing is debatable, but again, only the absolute newest TVs support it anyway.
leland @ Nov 1st 2007 10:35AM
90% of people that have a HDTV have a 1080i screen (See also - "Vizio the #1 HDTV maker in the country"). So this applies to them.