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Live from the 2009 Blu-ray Disc Association press conference {Engadget HD}
Jan 9th 2009 12:55AM smitho, that's anecdotal. I have a PS3 as well, and own over 40 BDs. When you DO get around to watching a movie in 1080p, you're likely to be awestruck, and wonder why you hadn't done it sooner.
Quantum of Solace Blu-ray ship date out ahead of theatrical release {Engadget HD}
Oct 12th 2008 12:03PM Wow! This is amazing! Is this a prelude to the death of the movie theater, and the home theater being the new king?
Silicon Knights developer says EVE is better than WoW {Massively}
Aug 28th 2008 7:14PM EVE is a wild west simulator coupled with an economic simulator, disguised as a game.
HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on December 4th, 2007 {Engadget HD}
Dec 4th 2007 1:23AM @EEL
You're welcome, I'm glad it came in useful :). With my current receiver, I'm stuck with either DTS 5.1 or 2-channel PCM, but I have no complaints... but at least I know that if I really wanted it, all I would have to do is buy a new receiver that has HDMI inputs.
HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on December 4th, 2007 {Engadget HD}
Dec 3rd 2007 4:28PM DTS 5.1 is a lossy audio codec, and is not the same as Uncompressed PCM.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Joshua_Zyber/High-Def_FAQ:_Blu-ray_and_HD_DVD_Audio_Explained/1064
DTS 5.1 is the audio codec used for standard DVDs. You can up the bitrate to 1.5 Mb/s, but it's still lossy. You should notice no difference between TrueHD and Uncompressed PCM. Both will decode to the same thing. The advantage with TrueHD is that it consumes less space on the disk, while it requires more processing power to decode.
HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on December 4th, 2007 {Engadget HD}
Dec 3rd 2007 4:22PM Paging Nfinity...
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending November 18th, 2007 {Engadget HD}
Nov 27th 2007 1:22PM @ Tim
I suspect the lack of region-restriction on HD DVDs helps them in Europe. In America, the only people who have voiced concern over this are people importing Anime from Japan.
It's a double-edged sword, though. Neutral studios like Warner/New Line sometimes delay the HD DVD release until after the international theater screenings end, while they release the Blu-ray version much sooner.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending November 18th, 2007 {Engadget HD}
Nov 27th 2007 1:18PM People would buy Shrek 3 HD DVD for the same reason they bought Ratatouille on Blu-ray.
Studio exclusivity sucks. I applaud Warner for their neutrality. Maybe their production costs are higher, but I don't have to worry about if any of their releases will play on my PS3.
Macrovision purchases BD+ DRM for $45 million {Engadget HD}
Nov 26th 2007 3:45AM Yes, you can. Unlike the security scheme in HD DVD, BD+ is renewable. It can be broken, but fixed. Windows Media format files do something similar, and WMV has been broken many times. Every time it is, Microsoft releases new updates to secure future playback. Similarly, each Blu-ray disk carries the virtual machine software package on it necessary to decrypt itself for playback. If BD+ is broken, this just means you can decrypt any Blu-ray disk that currently exists, but not any future releases (or future copies of current movies).
It has yet to be proven if SlySoft's AnyDVD will work on future Blu-ray releases. The image above, which was meant to be intimidating is just a relabeled version of Figure 7 from http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/SelfProtectingContent.pdf
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix HD DVD to debut new online community features {Engadget HD}
Nov 22nd 2007 3:06AM This feature is about as useless as the on-disk games they bundle in with HDM. I'm sure I'll use this about as much as I use the contact-list functionality on my iPod.
