Seriously, if it's inevitable - and Tosh can learn this behind the scenes if their not afraid of reality - then they may as well end this "war" ASAP and commit to Blu. They've already lost enough, why lose more - get on the Blu bandwagon!
The problem is for me, i'm not going to buy any more HD DVD's now - I'm not going to invest in something which might well not work in the long term now.
I'm a Microsoft fanboy and have supported HD DVD from the beginning. I'm just sick of all the swinging around from which side is winning each week!
Region protection bothers me dramatically. I loved that about HD DVD. But, if Slysoft get AnyDVD working 100% with all the titles, which we all know they will - It shouldn't be too bad.
I can see why HD downloads are so popular now though. No fuss about which format, and most of them come in WMV HD for xbox playing. Cheap hard drives, Fast connections.. I'd happily pay $20 for a movie download in HD than a disk. Lets hope Microsoft can get something sorted in that space soon.
It's 720P (which does make a difference if you have a high end 1080P and sit close enough to see the resolution difference) and it's LITE.
LITE means that it's an extremely low bitrate encode, which means that the picture will look ok, as long as nothing's moving around. When there's action, etc, with such a low bitrate you are going to see lots of breakup of the picture (aka artifacts) which really ruin the whole enjoyment of HD in the first place.
But hey, maybe instead of responding to me, when you obviously know little to nothing about HD, kyou should go sign the petition to keep HD DVD alive.
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HD Tom @ Jan 9th 2008 5:55PM
Seriously, if it's inevitable - and Tosh can learn this behind the scenes if their not afraid of reality - then they may as well end this "war" ASAP and commit to Blu. They've already lost enough, why lose more - get on the Blu bandwagon!
And this is coming from an HD-DVD-player owner!
RazorD @ Jan 9th 2008 6:01PM
The problem is for me, i'm not going to buy any more HD DVD's now - I'm not going to invest in something which might well not work in the long term now.
I'm a Microsoft fanboy and have supported HD DVD from the beginning. I'm just sick of all the swinging around from which side is winning each week!
Region protection bothers me dramatically. I loved that about HD DVD. But, if Slysoft get AnyDVD working 100% with all the titles, which we all know they will - It shouldn't be too bad.
I can see why HD downloads are so popular now though. No fuss about which format, and most of them come in WMV HD for xbox playing. Cheap hard drives, Fast connections.. I'd happily pay $20 for a movie download in HD than a disk. Lets hope Microsoft can get something sorted in that space soon.
Jason @ Jan 9th 2008 6:48PM
I weep for anyone that thinks a crappy 720P "hd lite" download is the equivelant to what either HD DVD or Blu-Ray bring to the table.
Why don't you go whack off to some upconverted SD-DVD while you're at it?
EJNelly @ Jan 9th 2008 6:55PM
Because we all know 1080p is so much better than 720p *rolls eyes* http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/1080p-tvs-dont-always-look-better-than-720p-tvs/
On a side note, more people own 720p HDTVs anyway so 1080p does these people no good.
Jason @ Jan 10th 2008 12:46AM
It's 720P (which does make a difference if you have a high end 1080P and sit close enough to see the resolution difference) and it's LITE.
LITE means that it's an extremely low bitrate encode, which means that the picture will look ok, as long as nothing's moving around. When there's action, etc, with such a low bitrate you are going to see lots of breakup of the picture (aka artifacts) which really ruin the whole enjoyment of HD in the first place.
But hey, maybe instead of responding to me, when you obviously know little to nothing about HD, kyou should go sign the petition to keep HD DVD alive.