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Review: Samsung BD-P1000 {Engadget HD}
Aug 11th 2006 9:37AM I thank you other readers for coming foward on this. I might have sounded a little pissed off, but frankly I was. I had just finished listening to Ben's Podcasts (the last two) and the one with the Pioneer guy made me want to scream.
Ben,
Hear me one last time on this (no guarntee on that).
1. Why spend $1,000 for a bad Blu-ray player now, and $20 plus a movie for Bad Mpeg 2 pressings when you could be enjoying a half price HD DVD player and fantastic jaw-dropping pressing of movies now. Not a penny wasted on a bad investment.
2. When and if Blu-ray gets it's act together with dual layer MPEG4 pressings and better players, the price will most likely be half of what it is today. A year from now Blu-ray players will probably sell for $500 or less!
3. So, the most logical choice for an HD fan now is to buy HD DVD and enjoy, wait a year or less and if Sony gets it together, buy Blu-ray (if you need to). You would have spent the same dollars you just did on one crappy Blu-ray machine and not have wasted money on bad pressings.
Ben, it's just logical. Be realistic. You worry that HD DVD is a bad investment, and you just blew over a grand on a bad Blu-ray player and worse pressings. Oh, that makes sense. "Gotta support the team, man". Give me a break!
Review: Samsung BD-P1000 {Engadget HD}
Aug 10th 2006 3:16PM Have you seen the new Sony Blu-Ray slogan?
"Blu-ray DVD...it's not that good now but maybe it will get better"
lol
Review: Samsung BD-P1000 {Engadget HD}
Aug 10th 2006 2:10PM In regards to number 12, I simply was saying "Hell No" you haven't heard that statement because I did make it up out of thin air. My point is, Sony never said it, yet it seems that every pro blu-ray person is saying it.
I am not sitting on the fence. I have been enjoying HD DVD since April and have every right to say how great I feel it is. I was going to buy Blu-ray as well and always believed it was going to be better. I've seen it. It isn't. It isn't even close.
I'm not a fanboy, just a logical person.
Review: Samsung BD-P1000 {Engadget HD}
Aug 10th 2006 1:09PM ALSO----
Has anyone read or heard from Sony that they were releasing Blu-ray but "it won't be that good. But maybe next year it will get better".
Hell NO!
Review: Samsung BD-P1000 {Engadget HD}
Aug 10th 2006 1:01PM From DVD Talk:
A Review of Robocop on Blu-ray DVD
Holy crap in a can, this disc looks horrible! I've written a couple of previous Blu-ray reviews where I'd called certain discs the worst High Definition image I'd ever seen, thinking HD couldn't possibly get any worse, but here Sony just keeps lowering the bar for the format. The Robocop Blu-ray is U-G-L-Y. And before you write in to chastise me that, "The movie is 20 years old. What'd you expect?" or "It was a low-budget movie. It can't look much better", save your breath. Those are bullshit excuses and dead wrong. The problems with this disc all stem from the video transfer and the Blu-ray authoring. Robocop is not supposed to look like this. No movie is supposed to look like this.
From DVD Talk:
A review on Aeon Flux HD DVD:
Æon Flux boasts the most jaw-droppingly impressive video I've seen from any HD source to date. I haven't viewed anything that even approaches being in this same league -- its diverse, cranked-up palette looks amazing, black levels remain robust throughout, and the image is impossibly sharp and detailed, looking spectacular even standing an inch or two away from the screen. No compression hiccups or even the slightest imperfection in the source could be spotted.
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All I can say is that if I waited (and almost did) for Blu-ray and the pressings looked as they do, I'd have returned it. I don't care what anyone says about "How it can be". It is what it is right now and people are shelling out $999. and $20 plus bucks a DVD for crap!
I have over 30 HD DVD's and 70% of them make my jaw drop from the quality.
Not one. I repeat, not one Blu-ray DVD review I've read says that.
Nuff' said.
M
Review: Samsung BD-P1000 {Engadget HD}
Aug 10th 2006 11:15AM Blow it out your a**! "Don't get us wrong the quality was very good, but we look forward to what Blu-ray can offer." HA! If HD DVD looked like Blu-ray you would have buried it ten feet under. When review after review of Blu-ray movies (on a Sony & Samsung approved (fixed) players, state something to the effect of "looks good, and almost reaches HD DVD quality" face the music and admit it. The blu-ray camp has problems, and don't tell me that because they have so many supporters, so many studios, that it will succeed. I agree that that power could make it succeed but who needs another VHS when Beta or Laserdisc was better. If blu-ray succeeds it will not be for quality. It will be for the publics stupidity. And you are at the lead.
Good Night, and Good Luck to be released for HD DVD {Engadget HD}
Jul 21st 2006 10:25AM Good night, and good luck blu-ray!
SelectaVision VideoDiscs Vs. LaserDisc {Engadget HD}
Jul 13th 2006 12:03PM The important parallel here is that RCA CED had more studio and electronic compnaies behind it. Hundreds of titles. Big bidget marketing (remember the Gene Kelly Tv spots?) and Laserdisc basically had Pioneer and MCA/Universal (in the early days)
HD DVD is the Laserdisc in this parallel and Blu-ray is CED.
Laserdisc won and was successful prior to DVD being releases. Laserdisc grew and lasted some 13 years after the death of CED.
It's just a fun parallel. The meek will inherit the earth.
