Testronic Labs' interactive Blu-ray / HD DVD test facility is only half useful

by Darren Murph posted Feb 20th 2008 at 8:44AM

Oh sure, we've seen testing devices for both HD DVD and Blu-ray before, with the latter even boasting a dedicated quality assurance lab, but we've a feeling only half of Testronic Labs newest facility will actually see any real usage. The firm has constructed an interactive Blu-ray and HD DVD test bed in Burbank, California in an attempt to provide "third-party, quality-control of high definition software and integrated web capability." Unfortunately for it, we don't foresee ~~too many more~~ any new highly advanced HD DVDs in the pipeline, so it looks as if most of the scrutiny will surround HDMV, BD-J and BD-Live. Ah well, the joint probably needed space for a cafeteria, anyway.

[Thanks, Steve]

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD

Tags: BD-J, BD-LIVE, hdi, HDMV, interactive, interactivity, test, Test Facility, TestFacility, testing, Testronic Labs

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JVirg1 @ Feb 20th 2008 9:01AM

Have you noticed that the top 7 blogs you have posted have 0 comments? Perhaps instead of these silly childish na..nA..na..nA Boo Boo we won you lost types of posts you should be thinking about a new approach? Just a thought.

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mlody11 @ Feb 20th 2008 9:33AM

Amen. Make me wonder how old the writers at engadget are... I am seriously thinking of going to another blog site. If this keeps up, engadget should loose a bunch of regular readers as AVSForum did with their Format war threat scandal.

Hey engadget, maybe follow in the foot steps of your idol, BDA, no? They praised Toshiba for dropping the format... I'd love to see actions such as this from other companies, I'm looking at you Sony (Memory Stick, SDDS, ATRAC. How did the betamax war end?). Toshiba could have very well dragged everyone through the mud on this but chose not to.

I love HD DVD but the market has spoken and I'm was already purple...

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Xyzzy @ Feb 20th 2008 9:26AM

Maybe you should do a little digging before deciding that there are no more highly advanced HD DVDs in the pipeline:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=918914

We gonna see a post from anywhere at EHD about Kinowelt?

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Jim Todd @ Feb 20th 2008 9:34AM

As the owner of only one HD-DVD unit but multiple blu-ray units, even I'm starting to think this getting not so much ridiculous but boring to the point of using other sources.

If both formats were still in the running, would they have even run this story? It's like they Google HD-DVD, find some non-news tidbit, and post it with the schoolyard nonsense.

I would imagine that in the next day or so, we'll see headlines like "Obama Maintains Lead in Primaries, and Doesn't Own an HD-DVD player"

You've officially crossed the line...not from funny to annoying, but funny to merely boring.

If you'd like, just email these stories directly to Nfinity and the others still clinging on, but for me at least this is a waste of space and I'd rather spend my time reading sites that are about the breadth of HD information, not one topic -- and in fact a topic that is last week's news. If another major company drops HD-DVD, go ahead and report it, but now it seems you're just as desperate to find the next "HD-DVD is Dead" headline as the last supports are to find positive news. Just boring.

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clint @ Feb 21st 2008 12:13AM

Hey Jim, Testronic Labs third-party QCs almost every DVD you watch bud. Disney, Paramount, CBS, Sony, Dreamworks, Fox etc... It actually is interesting news for people who are in the DVD business. Technicolor, Deluxe and Ascent all use Testronic Labs.

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mlody11 @ Feb 20th 2008 9:35AM

And English me good no, morning Wednesday.

Next blog site... must have editor.

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Jim Todd @ Feb 20th 2008 10:22PM

clint - that may be - - doesn't change the fact that this has become a rather one-note site of late. But it seems to appeal to some, and it looks like I might be in the bored minority. There are certainly other sites, so I won't judge anyone who finds the kernel of actual information in the non-stop monotony.

By the way, HD-DVD is dead. I'm not sure if you've heard. Oh, and HD-DVD is dead.

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Marty Christion @ Mar 6th 2008 1:04PM

Clint is right. Testronic Labs is at least the fourth (and maybe third) best DVD test lab in the world right now.

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